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 162,344 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.

Robert Erskine

From Graces Guide
1765 illustration. Source: Wellcome Collection, accessed 15/12/18

c.1765 Invented a type of centrifugal pump. 1765 illustration here[1]. Complete priming would have been essential to successful operation.


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Sources of Information

  1. [1] Ship-building: a centrifugal bilge-pump. Invented and drawn by R. Erskine, 1765. Wellcome Collection.