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Title: Breaking Experiments on Cast Iron Sleepers - a handwritten treatise with pen...
Catalogue reference: ZLIB 9/80
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This record is about the Title: Breaking Experiments on Cast Iron Sleepers - a handwritten treatise with pen... dating from 1857 in the series British Transport Historical Records Office library: Engineering and Scientific Works.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- ZLIB 9/80
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1857
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Description (What the record is about)
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Title: Breaking Experiments on Cast Iron Sleepers - a handwritten treatise with pen and ink illustrations describing the tests made at Derby in 1857 to ascertain the strength of cast iron sleepers and to thereby constitute data for future reference Author: W H Mills
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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- Non record material
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- Open Immediately
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C1862157/
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ZLIB 9
British Transport Historical Records Office library: Engineering and Scientific Works...
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