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16 items extracted from C 73/81. (1) m 3a. Steam boiler: sections and details. Inventor:...
Catalogue reference: C 73/81/2
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This record is about the 16 items extracted from C 73/81. (1) m 3a. Steam boiler: sections and details. Inventor:... dating from 1837 in the series Chancery: Rolls Chapel: Specification and Surrender Rolls. It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- C 73/81/2
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1837
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Description (What the record is about)
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16 items extracted from C 73/81. (1) m 3a. Steam boiler: sections and details. Inventor: Charles Devaux. Patent date 23 May 1837. (2-3) m 9a. Mechanical window shutters: two sheets of figures illustrating mechanism. Inventor: Elijah Leak. Patent date 23 May 1837. (4) m 11a. Improvements in obtaining motive power: figures of parts of the apparatus. Inventor: Miles Berry. Patent date 6 June 1837. (5) m 12a. Gas retort: drawing of apparatus. Inventor: John Kirkham. Patent date 8 June 1837. (6-7) mm 13a and 14a. Spinning machine: two sheets of sections and details. Inventor: John Bodmer. Patent date 12 June 1837. (8-10) mm 18a, 27a and 30a. Improvements in giving signals and sounding alarms: three sheets of drawings, sections and details of apparatus. Inventors: William Fothergill Cooke and Charles Wheatstone. Patent date 12 June 1837. (11-12) mm 34a. Machinery to aid the raising of loads: two sheets of figures illustrating the mechanism. Inventor: James Buckingham. Patent date 17 June 1837. (13-16) mm 36a, 37a, 38a and 39a. Improvements in the manufacture of hats: four sheets of plans, elevations and sections of parts of the mechanism. Inventor: Henry Augustus Wells. Patent date 30 June 1837.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Open Document, Open Description
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- Topics
- Clothing
- Manufacturing
- Oil and gas
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C 73
Chancery: Rolls Chapel: Specification and Surrender Rolls
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16 items extracted from C 73/81. (1) m 3a. Steam boiler: sections and details. Inventor:...
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