Smiths Group: A history of innovation

Posted on 7 Nov 2018 by Jonny Williamson

Smiths Group has been innovating from the dawn of the Industrial Revolution to the space race. Nick Peters sits down with its Head of Innovation, Keir Boxshall.

When watchmaker Samuel Smith opened his first shop in south London in 1851, he certainly couldn’t have imagined that one day the company that bears his name would be at the very forefront of modern global engineering. Even so, you can trace the pedigree of the company’s growth through innovation back to its founder. [caption…

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