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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
Reports of Robert Scott and Allan Everett on different types of thin-fibred electronic lamps for flashing. 1898-9. (Manuscript)
1898 - 1899
MER/36
Letter, Percy Scott to Prince Louis, H.M.S. SCYLLA, Malta, 1 February 1899. (Manuscript)
1899-02-01 - 1899-02-01
MER/38
Electric Mechanical Flashing Lantern by Captain Percy Scott. 1894-1900. Folder contains letters dated 1899 only. (Manuscript)
1899 - 1899
MER/37
'Scott's Masthead Electric Flashing Lanterns'. Bound copy of MER/119-121, with an introduction and annotations/corrections to circuit diagrams. (Manuscript)
MER/122
Circuit diagram for lantern set-up. (Manuscript)
MER/121
Correspondence between Captain Percy Scott and Lieutenant Allan Everett re. lamps. 1894-98. (Manuscript)
1894 - 1898
MER/34
Letters of Lieutenant A. F. Everett when onboard H.M.S. AMPHION and the Admiralty on the subject of rules for the use of Wireless Telegraphy in the Fleet and the revised Morse signs as shown in the plate. 1893 (Manuscript)
1893 - 1893
MER/33
Log of Scott's Flashing Lantern. 16 August - 16 September. (Manuscript)
MER/118
Memo re. trial of Imperial Light. 1905. (Manuscript)
1905 - 1905
MER/111
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