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.

James J. Hicks

From Graces Guide
January 1888.
June 1888. Watkin Aneroid Baromoeter.

of 8 to 10 Hatton Garden, London, EC.

1861 Company established.

1885 Gold medal for improvements in thermometers and other philosophical instruments

1910 Exhibited instruments used in investigating the upper atmosphere[1] - this could be the company otherwise described as Hicks and Co

1911 Incorporated with Stanley and Co

1914 Scientific instrument manufacturers. Specialities: standard meteorological instruments, aneroid barometers, clinical thermometers. Employees 150. [2]

1934 Katathermometer.

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Sources of Information

  1. The Times, Dec 21, 1910
  2. 1914 Whitakers Red Book