1812
Battersea Sawmill
Brunel operates a mechanised sawmill at Battersea designed to cut timber and manufacture veneers.
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Browse historical events and people recorded at Battersea in Great Britain. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Brunel operates a mechanised sawmill at Battersea designed to cut timber and manufacture veneers.
Brunel's mechanised sawmill is destroyed by fire, contributing to his later financial difficulties.
The Battersea sawmill is rebuilt and Brunel resumes work on mechanised timber processing.
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