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 164,342 pages of information and 246,084 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.

Risca Colliery

From Graces Guide

of Risca, Monmouthshire

The Black Vein Colliery was opened in the early 1840s by John Russell of the Risca Iron and Coal Co

1891 The National Collieries in the Rhondda Valley were united with those of Abercarn and Risca under the title of United National Collieries

Mather and Platt supplied an 850 kW Zoelly turbine to the colliery.[1]


See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. 'The Design and Construction of Steam Turbines. A Manual for the Engineer' by Harold Medwin Martin, Longmans, Green & Co, 1912