Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,258 pages of information and 244,500 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
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Edward Shickle Cowper and his younger brother Ebenezer manufactured and installed printing machinery throughout Europe.
1817-21 The brothers were engaged by the Bank of England to develop a system of printing banknotes that would be difficult to forge. Although they were successful technically, the bank, being once more permitted to issue coin, declined to adopt their proposal
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