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Dancer, John B

Other Business Names:

  • Abraham & Dancer

Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:

  • Liverpool, Liverpool, Merseyside, North West, England
  • Manchester, Manchester, Greater Manchester, North West, England

Sectors:

  • Precision instruments production Measuring inc navigational equipment production
  • Precision instruments production Photographic, cinematographic, etc, equipment production

Notes:

John Benjamin Dancer, 1812-87, was a maker of optical, mathematical and philosophical instruments. 1835 inherited his father's business at Liverpool. From early 1840s working in Manchester, initially as Abraham & Dancer. Made, inter alia, microscopes and stereoscopic cameras and responsible for first micro images. Gave up business in 1878

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