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 162,364 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.

William Eden Highfield

From Graces Guide

William Eden Highfield (1880-1938) of Highfield and Roger Smith

c.1880 Born son of Samuel Highfield, brother of John Somerville Highfield

1911 Electrical engineer, living in Altrincham with his brother Frederick[1]

c1924 Co-inventor with John Earnshaw Calverley of the high voltage transverter which was demonstrated at the Empire Exhibition at Wembley in 1924.


1938 Obituary [2]




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