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The first American invention to obtain an English patent
These intricate 1716 drawings were submitted by Sybilla Masters in the final stage of securing a patent for machinery for 'cleaning and curing Indian corn'.
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Ministry of Overseas Development and predecessors: Tropical Products Institute and...
Catalogue reference: AY 3
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AY 3
This series contains agenda, minutes, papers, correspondence and records of, or relating to, various advisory and consultative committees of the Tropical Products Institute and its predecessors.Until 1949 these are mainly files of the Imperial...
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AY 3
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Title (The name of the record)
- Ministry of Overseas Development and predecessors: Tropical Products Institute and predecessors: Advisory and Consultative Committee Papers
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Date (When the record was created)
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1916-1978
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains agenda, minutes, papers, correspondence and records of, or relating to, various advisory and consultative committees of the Tropical Products Institute and its predecessors.
Until 1949 these are mainly files of the Imperial Institute; then of the Colonial Products Advisory Bureau (Plant and Animal) from 1949 to 1952, of the Colonial Products Laboratory from 1953 to 1957, and thereafter of the Tropical Products Institute.
The series also contains files of the Colonial Products Research Council, 1943 to 1953; of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Headquarters, 1961 to 1964, relating to the Tropical Products Institute Committee; and, from 1965, of the Ministry of Overseas Development relating to the Tropical Products Institute Advisory Committee. It also includes some copies of committee papers of the Agricultural Research Council and of minutes of the Chemistry Research Board of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.
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For further records of the Colonial Products Research Council, see CO 899
For correspondence and papers of the Board of Trade, 1903 to 1907, and the Department of Overseas Trade, 1925 to 1948, relating to the administration of the Imperial Institute, now the Commonwealth Institute see ED 26
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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362 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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- Topics
- Research
- Aid and development
- Farming
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C2717/
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