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 162,259 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.

Elsecar Newcomen Engine

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Possibly the last commercially-used Newcomen-style engine ran from 1795 until 1923. It is the last engine remaining on its original site, at what is now the Elsecar Heritage Centre, near Barnsley in South Yorkshire.

See Thomas Newcomen

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