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 162,356 pages of information and 244,505 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.

Longmans, Green and Co

From Graces Guide
September 1913.
November 1963.

1724 Established by Thomas Longman.

1869 published 'The History and Progress of the Electric Telegraph, by Robert Sabine, C.E. Second Edition, with additions.[1]

1869 published Smoking Fires, their Cause and Cure, By Rev. Alex Colvin Ainslie, M.A, Vicar of Corfe, Somerset.[2]

1875 published a series of science textbooks, one of them by T. M. Goodeve. [3]

1890 Incorporated as an Unlimited Liability Company.

1914 Directors: Thomas Norton Longman, Charles James Longman, George Henry Longman, Sir Hubert Harry Longman, Bart., and William Ellerby Green.

At some point became Longman and Co

Later Longman Group UK

1968 Acquired by S. Pearson and Son

1985 Acquired The Pitman Examination Institute



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Sources of Information

  1. The Engineer 1869/02/19
  2. The Engineer 1869/02/19
  3. The Engineer 1875/09/17