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Engineering


IDENTITY STATEMENT

Reference code(s): GB 0064 ENG

Held at: National Maritime Museum

Title: Engineering

Date(s): 1859-1913

Level of description: Collection

Extent: 4 vols

Name of creator(s): Various

CONTEXT

Administrative/Biographical history:

Engineering - volumes

CONTENT

Scope and content/abstract:

The earliest of the four volumes in this class is a notebook with carefully executed pen and ink diagrams entitled 'The Indicator and Dynamometer with Their Practical Applications'. It was written in 1859 by Captain Brown of the MOHAWK. There are two notebooks kept by stokers on courses at the beginning of the twentieth century; one is by Acting Leading Stoker John H Osborne, 1913, and the other, which is illustrated, is by Henry Arnell, 1908. Ther is also Arnell's copy of the Stoker's Manual , 1912.

ACCESS AND USE

Language/scripts of material: English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Please contact the Archive for further information.

Conditions governing reproduction:

Please contact the Archive for further information.

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue online at the: National Maritime Museum website .

ARCHIVAL INFORMATION

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

ALLIED MATERIALS

DESCRIPTION NOTES

Archivist's note: Edited by Sarah Drewery, Jun 2011.

Rules or conventions: Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions: 2010-08-26


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Marine engineering | Transport engineering
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