Roll Britannia: the early history of machinery in tea making

Britannia – apart from being a grandiose term for the United Kingdom, as in Britannia Rules the Waves – is a trade name for the line of machinery created in the 1870s by William Jackson, a young inventor. His rolling machines were the primary innovation that directly transformed every aspect of tea making in Assam. It shifted the global market in terms of production and consumption from China green to India black tea.
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