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Archibald Guillans Book Feby. 12th 1809. [Manuscript notebook (183p.) of mathematical theory and its application to practical navigation. Ranges from first principles of mathematics to complex navigational calculations. Includes exercises in mathematics and sailing, details of writing a ship's log, journals of voyages from England to Madeira in May and Sept-Oct, and three ink and colour wash maps of Europe, Africa and the world. Presumably the text/exercise book of a studious junior officer]

Archibald Guillans Book Feby. 12th 1809

1809

[Ms. notebook] Light. Oct: 1844. [Volume records Percy's experiments, with George Shaw of Birmingham, 'on the alteration of chloride of silver by light'. Later entries refer mostly to metallurgical subjects. Bears prefatory note by John Spiller, vice-president of the Photographic Society of Great Britain, to whom the volume was given by Percy's executors in 1890]

Light. Oct: 1844

1844-1874

Chemical Notes. Analyses : Notebook. [Ms. notebook detailing analyses of metals, minerals and vegetable matters] / H. Chapman Jones. 1882-1914. Arranged alphabetically. Gives analyses of samples of metals, minerals and vegetable matters. Most entries cover years up to 1906; a few entries were made in 1913-14]

Chemical Notes. Analyses: Notebook

1882-1914

[Alchemy notebook] Arcanum der anderen Universal Medicin. [Ms. vol., 154p. in German. nd. Title taken from fol.45]

Alchemy notebook Arcanum der anderen Universal Medicin.

nd.

[Manuscript notebook written during a 16-week course at the Royal Navy I.C.E. School / Frank E. Poole. Covers every aspect of the working, care and maintenance of marine internal combustion engines - both petrol and diesel - including engines made by Paxman, Lister, Perkins, Packard, Hall Scott, Gray Marine, Gardner and Benz. Gearboxes, batteries, lubrication, fuel, cooling and ignition systems, submarine fuel systems etc are also covered. Profusely illustrated with many coloured cut-away drawings and diagrams. Stamped and signed by the Engineer Officer in Charge, ICE School with comment 'Excellent work. This is probably the best notebook ever produced during the 16-week course']

Manuscript notebook written during a 16-week course at the Royal Navy I.C.E. School

1950

[Ms. notebook re apprenticeship as Instrument Technician (Mechanical) at Hilger & Watts Ltd., 1966-67. 1 vol. Notes were taken from lectures by D. Westcott, apprentice training supervisor at Hilger & Watts Aberdeen Works, Highbury Grove, London. The apprenticeship was in conjunction with release to the O.N.C. mechanical engineering course at Hackney Technical College. Includes sections on lathes, drills, welding, files. Bears numerous pencil illustrations, and includes tipped-in xeroxed information sheets]

Ms. notebook re apprenticeship as Instrument Technician (Mechanical) at Hilger & Watts Ltd.

1966-1967

Account of work done on the Madeley Contract and the Wolverhampton Contract of the Grand Junction Railway, 1834-37. [Ms. notebook, ca.26p. used]

Account of work done on the Madeley Contract and the Wolverhampton Contract

1834-1837