Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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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.

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.

Edmund Lee

From Graces Guide

Edmund Lee ( -1763), of Wigan

A smith and millwright at Brock Mill Forge, Wigan, who patented the fantail used to turn windmills to face into the wind. He died in 1763.[1]

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Sources of Information

  1. Biographical Dictionary of the History of Technology, edited by Lance Day, Ian McNeil, Routledge, 1996, referring to 'Lee's Patent Windmill' by Stephen Buckland, 1987