2016 – research activity

This list is in reverse chronological order. N.B. CUL means Cambridge University Library.

Date What
16 + 20 Dec CUL for books on Robert Mylne
12 Dec CUL for books on Peter Dollond
06 Dec CUL for books on John Rennie
22+23 Nov CU for books on William Chapman and William Jessop
15 Nov CUL for books on William Jessop
13 Oct CUL for books on William Chapman. Trying to explain how the “skew” arch works.
11 Oct CUL for books on William Chapman
 4 Oct  CUL for books on Telford
 21 Sep  CUL for books on Telford
 7 Sep  CUL for books on Trevithick
 18 Aug  CUL for books on Trevithick
 07 Aug  CUL for books on Telford and Trevithick
 02 Aug  CUL for information on Davies (Giddy) Gilbert and William Murdock to complete earlier work. Starting work on the “Makers of the Modern World” theme.
 13 July  CUL for information on Maudsley Son and Field
 25 June  Consolidating information on “Makers of new machines” theme.
30 Apr
16 Apr
07 Apr
18 Feb
07 Feb
09 Jan
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CUL THG work using their collection technical journals
on Telecommunications.
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 11 Feb  CUL for books on Congreve
 02 Feb  CUL for books on Boulton and Watt
 27 Jan  CUL rare books room for Boulton and Watt
 16 Jan  CUL for books on Henry Fourdrinier
 13 Jan  CUL for books on Henry Fourdrinier