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The English Farm Wagon / H.R. Waiting & J.B. Passmore. 1936. [39p. ts. + 26p. figs. & photos. With amendments (3p. xeroxed ts.) by H.E. Philpot, written in 1954 June, in pocket at back of book. Includes specific chapters on Sussex, Oxford, Surrey, Essex and Wiltshire wagons]

The English Farm Wagon / H.R. Waiting & J.B. Passmore

1936

Structural Air Raid Protection in England and Abroad / K.J. Sommerfeld, 1939 Feb. [Ts. vol., ii + 41p. on thirty leaves, with index (7p); mounted photographs. Paper read at meeting of the Engineering Society of City and Guilds College on Feb 9]

Structural Air Raid Protection in England and Abroad / K.J. Sommerfeld

1939

[Draft "historical sketch" (author unknown) being an "Account of the earliest recorded experiments on the distillation of gas from coal to ... when its carbonisation was first placed on a commercial basis and gas lighting was recognised by the public ...". ca.1929. Ts. vol., 104 leaves with inserts]

Draft "historical sketch"

circa 1929

The Foundations of Telephony, the Telephone and its Inventors / William Aitken. 1937. [Ts. vol., xi + 404p. This book is the unabridged typescript of Aitken's Who Invented the Telephone? published by Blackie & Son in 1939 (a copy of which is shelved at 621.395:93). See also inv. no. 1992-286 (MS 2069)]

The Foundations of Telephony

1937

A brief history of the origin and progress of the royal harbour of Ramsgate / Kenneth Beacham Martin, deputy harbour master, 1831. [Ts. volume including 11 photos (total 87 leaves)]. Transcribed in 1975 by Robert B. Matkin of Margate from the original manuscript by Martin, deputy harbour master. Number 6 of 8 copies produced]

A brief history of the origin and progress of the royal harbour of Ramsgate / Kenneth Beacham Martin

1831; 1975

Early days of the electrical industry and other reminiscences of Alexander P. Trotter / Alex. P.Trotter. 1948. [Ts. vol., ix + 218p. 'Abridged and edited, with the addition of two Appendices by F.W. Hewitt ... Assistant Secretary of the Institution of Electrical Engineers, 1933-1944'. Prefaced by portrait photo of Trotter and detailed contents pages. Published by the I.E.E.]

Early days of the electrical industry and other reminiscences of Alexander P. Trotter

1948