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 162,237 pages of information and 244,492 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.

Walter Bentley Woodbury

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Walter Bentley Woodbury (1834-1885)

1834 Born in Manchester on 26 June.

1885 Died on 5 September while on holiday in Margate.

Woodbury was an inventor and pioneering photographer. He was one of the earliest photographers in Australia and the Dutch East Indies (now part of Indonesia). He also patented numerous inventions relating to various aspects of photography, his best-known innovation being the Woodburytype photomechanical process.

For much more, see Wikipedia entry.

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