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 162,257 pages of information and 244,498 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.

1851 Great Exhibition: Official Catalogue: Class X.: G. H. Bursill

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673A. BURSILL, G. H., 9 York Terrace, Homey Road, Holloway — Inventor.

Patent compensating cistern barometer; the mercury, by a self-acting contrivance, is always preserved upon a level within the cistern, notwithstanding any alteration of temperature, or any rise or fall of the barometrical column.

Artificial hand, possessing elastic properties; which enable those who require it to pick up, seize, and even make use of minute objects. Invented by Sir G. Cayley, Bart.; improved and manufactured by Mr. James Buckingham, 13 Judd Place East.


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