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General Signals (Manuscript)
MER/23
New Automatic Gas Light (Imperial Light). 1905. (Manuscript)
1905 - 1905
MER/110
Correspondence re. Sub Lieutenant C. P. Cotton-Stapleton's Invention for Night-Signalling at Sea. 1906. (Manuscript)
1906 - 1906
MER/105
Scheme for the Improvement of Night Signalling. 1896. (Manuscript)
1896 - 1896
MER/104
Scheme for the Improvement of the System of Night Signalling. (Manuscript)
MER/107
Night Flashing Signals. 1893 including letters about night flashing signals. (Manuscript)
1893 - 1893
MER/103
Navy Flashing Signals (letters and photographs). 1891. Printed correspondence (1861-91) between Admiral Colomb and the Admiralty re. his invention of night flashing signals for the Fleet, particularly payment thereof (Manuscript)
1861 - 1891
MER/102
Report on trial of Imperial Light. 1905. (Manuscript)
1905 - 1905
MER/114
Edison & Swan. Flashing lamp. 1910. (Manuscript)
1910 - 1910
MER/78
Correspondence and papers re. Disc Signalling, including 'Handbook on Signalling by Means of Discs, Invented by Lieut.-Colonel B. R. Dietz' (1908) and 'Memorandum for Signalers who are detailed to carry the Signalling Disc'. (Manuscript)
1908 - 1908
MER/71
David Smith Wright's invention for ships to locate each other in a fog. 1913. (Manuscript)
1913 - 1913
MER/87
Electric signals & lighting of ships. 1911. (Manuscript)
1911 - 1911
MER/82
Correspondence re. Royland Tubb's proposal of coloured lights for signalling. 1906. (Manuscript)
1906 - 1906
MER/58
Correspondence re. Mr Liwentaal's cryptographic instruments. 1906-7. (Manuscript)
1906 - 1907
MER/60
Correspondence re. J. Wall's Bridge Signal Monitor Plates. 1906. (Manuscript)
1906 - 1906
MER/59
Reports and letters re. Flashing Lantern experiments carried out by Commander Everett and Lieutenant Robert Scott. (Manuscript)
1904 - 1919
MER/54
Day signals with vocabulary up until 294. Also with night and fog signal vocabulary. (Manuscript)
MER/20
Letters, reports, and diagrams re. foreign methods of signalling. 1903-09. (Manuscript)
1903 - 1909
MER/52
Signal Book with vocabulary of 277 signals, Night, Fog, distant signals. (Manuscript)
MER/15
"J. H. Steward's Supplemental List of Military Instruments". 1908. (Manuscript)
1908 - 1908
MER/70
Burbridge's Signalling System. 1907. (Manuscript)
1907 - 1907
MER/65
'Position Square Charts and their Use, with a Proposed New System for Reporting Rapidly and Accurately an Enemy, his Position, Course, and Speed'. 1907. (Manuscript)
1907 - 1907
MER/67
Remarks Regarding Captain Cuthbert Hunter's Proposed Emergency Signal Code. 1907. (Manuscript)
1907 - 1907
MER/62
Letter, to Captain Scott, H.M.S. MAJESTIC, 1 January 1900, 27 pages. (Manuscript)
1900-01-01 - 1900-01-01
MER/40
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