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 162,241 pages of information and 244,492 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.

Henry Jessop

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Henry Jessop (1791-1834)

1791 Born the son of William Jessop

Designed a system for watering the streets of Calcutta, powered by a Boulton and Watt-type engine located at Chaundpaul Ghaut. The equipment was designed by Henry Jessop ('now in Russia' and made by the Butterley Co[1]


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Sources of Information

  1. [1] The Asiatic Journal and Monthly Register for British India and its Dependncies, Volume XV. p.524