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 162,258 pages of information and 244,500 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

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Moritz Platow

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Moritz Platow (1811- )

1811 Born at Saxe Weimar, Germany

1836 Partnership dissolved. '...Moritz Platow and William Freeland Fergus, Engineers and Machinists, under the firm of Platow and Fergus...'[1]

1839 Patent. Of Poland Street, Oxford Street, for improvements in pumps or engines for raising or forcing liquids.

Married Sarah Holmes

1852 'Moritz Platow, now residing at Hill Farm, Earl Soham, Framlingham, Suffolk: commission and inquisition of lunacy, into his state of mind and his property'[2]

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