1890s
1893 James Greenhalgh's Gas Tea Maker
On 17th August 1893 two men from Salford, Lancaster, patented a gas-powered teasmade. James Alfred Greenhalgh and his neighbour, John Thomas Hardman, a clerk who lived at 8 Granville Street. They appear to have been in business together in Regent Road. In their Patent application they wrote: “The object