Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,259 pages of information and 244,501 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.
Edward Dunning Barker (1844-1889), of Weston-super-Mare. Railway Engineer.
Inventor of a hydraulic brake for railway vehicles
1871 Description and illustrations of Barker's hydraulic brakes, which were shortly to have a trial on the Great Eastern Railway.[1]
Patent Brake for Great Eastern Railway. [2]
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