Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,253 pages of information and 244,496 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
William Crabtree was an astronomer, mathematician, and merchant from Broughton Spout, near the area now known as "The Priory" in Broughton, Salford, Lancashire. Crabtree and his friend Jeremiah Horrocks (1619-1641) were the only people to observe and record the first predicted transit of Venus in 1639.
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