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 164,605 pages of information and 246,151 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.

J. F. Hills

From Graces Guide

of the Post-office, Sudbury, Suffolk.

1885 Inventions Exhibition "...exhibits a novelty of his own invention in the shape of a watch with a specially designed dial, showing the code letters for the use of postmasters and telegraphists by whom it will doubtlessly be largely adopted. Mr. Hills is to be congratulated in being the first to conceive an idea, the obvious utility and simplicity of which renders it difficult to believe has never occurred to anyone before..."[1]



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Sources of Information

  1. The Engineer 1885/10/30 p 331