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49 items extracted from C 73/44. Drawings relating to specifications for inventions....
Catalogue reference: MFC 1/203
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This record is about the 49 items extracted from C 73/44. Drawings relating to specifications for inventions.... dating from 1833 in the series Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series.... It is held at The National Archives, Kew.
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- MFC 1/203
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1833
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Description (What the record is about)
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49 items extracted from C 73/44. Drawings relating to specifications for inventions. (1)-(12) William Henson's bobbin net lace machine. Enrolled 14 September 1833. (13)-(15) Miles Berry's gas meter. Enrolled 19 September 1833. (16)-(20) William Herbert's warp lace machine. Enrolled 20 September 1833. (21)-(26) William Shilton's file cutting machine. Enrolled 3 October 1833. (27)-(31) James and Francis Smith's improvements in machinery for manufacturing bobbin net lace. Enrolled 15 October 1833. (32) Archibald Douglass's shuttle. Enrolled 30 October 1833. (33)-(38) John Heathcoat's draining apparatus. Enrolled 15 November 1833. (39)-(44) Louis Paul Lefort's bobbin net lace machine. Enrolled 16 November 1833. (45), (46) Jonathan Hayne's imroved methods for manufacturing metal spoons. Enrolled 25 November 1833. (47)-(49) Robert Stephenson's specification for an improvement in locomotive engines. Enrolled 3 December 1833.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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- Public Record(s)
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- English
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- 3 portfolio(s)
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- Open Document, Open Description
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Public Record Office: Maps and plans extracted to flat storage from various series...
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49 items extracted from C 73/44. Drawings relating to specifications for inventions....
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