Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 164,352 pages of information and 246,084 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.
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John Hastie ( -1895)
Born the son of John Hastie. Brother to William Hastie
of John Hastie and Co, Greenock
He developed one of the earliest hydraulic engines with an automatic governor to regulate the quantity of water used in relation to the load.[1]
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