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 162,253 pages of information and 244,496 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.

Gisborne and Forde

From Graces Guide
1858. Apparatus for Telegraph Cables.

1854 Henry Charles Forde and Lionel Gisborne entered into partnership and soon became known as pioneers of submarine telegraphy.

1861 The partnership continued until the death of Lionel Gisborne, when Forde went into partnership with Fleeming Jenkin.


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