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“We fixed on No. 4, Queen Street Place, for our City offices, and it was from there that so many of my patented inventions were dated.” quote by Henry Bessemer — Download Open image

“We fixed on No. 4, Queen Street Place, for our City offices, and it was from there that so many of my patented inventions were dated.”

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