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William Fairbairn: the experimental engineer : A study in mid 19th-century engineering /Richard Byrom "William Fairbairn (1789-1874) was one of the greatest of 19th-century engineers yet he is strangely overlooked. This is the first definitive biography for 140 years. It chronicles Fairbairn's role in the development, in the UK and abroad, of mills, waterwheels, steam engines, boilers, iron steamships, locomotives, iron bridges, cranes and elevators. It provides illustrations for many of today's current areas of debate, as it discusses the sources of Fairbairn's success, the extent of his influence and the reasons for the firm he founded failing within a year of his death. Fairbairn was the leading experimental research engineer of his time; and his Manchester works were an outstanding success, with his trainees producing five professors of engineering and two engineers knighted for their work. Fully researched and profusely illustrated, the book will appeal to all with an interest in engineering history: academics and non-academics alike. The author was introduced to William Fairbairn as an undergraduate in Manchester and went on to gain an MPhil and PhD in Fairbairn studies. He remains fascinated by this remarkable engineer."--Provided by the publisher. 2017. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92FAIRBAIRN

Modern geography. A description of the empires, kingdoms, states, and colonies; with the oceans, seas, and isles; in all parts of the world : including the most recent discoveries, and political alterations. Digested on a new plan. Pinkerton, John 1817 • RARE-BOOK • 2 copies available. 910.4:094

George Charles Smith of Penzance : from Nelson sailor to mission pioneer /Roald Kverndal. "In the two previous books of his trilogy, Seamen's missions (1986) and The way of the sea (2008), the author researched how the seafarers' mission movement began and expanded. This third volume traces the captivating human drama surrounding the origins. It presents, for the first time ever, the embattled life of George Charles Smith---today recognized worldwide as the founder of the Maritime Mission Movement."--From back cover. 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92SMITH, GEORGE

Phillip Parker King 1791-1856 : a most admirable Australian /Brian Douglas Abbott. "The life of Phillip Parker King was inextricably linked with the establishment of the colony of New South Wales. His father, Philip Gidley King, sailed to Botany Bay on HMS Sirius as Governor Phillip's second in command in 1787, and Lt. King was given the responsibility of establishing the penal settlement on Norfolk Island. King was born on Norfolk Island in 1791. He entered the Royal Navy in 1807 and served in the Napoleonic Wars. His maritime exploration and survey work around Australia 1817-1822 has been well documented, and is also covered in this book." -- Provided by publisher. 2012. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 359.0092

Adams of Fleet Street, instrument makers to King George III " 'G. Adams in Fleet Street London' is the signature on some of the finest scientific instruments of the eighteenth century. This book is the first comprehensive study of the instrument-making business run by the Adams family, from its foundation in 1734 to bankruptcy in 1817. It is based on detailed research in the archival sources as well as examination of extant instruments and publications by George Adams Senior and his two sons, George Junior and Dudley. Separate chapters are devoted to George Senior's family background, his royal connections, and his new globes; George Junior's numerous publications, and his dealings with van Marum; and to Dudley's dabbling with 'medico-electrical therapeutics'. The book is richly illustrated with plates from the Adams' own publications and with examples of instruments ranging from unique museum pieces - such as the 'Prince of Wales' microscope - and globes to the more common, even mundane items of the kind seen in salesrooms and with dealers - the surveying, navigational and military instruments that formed the backbone of the business. The appendices include facsimiles of trade catalogues and an annotated short-title listing of the Adams family's publications, which also covers American and Continental editions, as well as the posthumous ones by W. & S. Jones."--Provided by the publisher. 2000 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 681.09Adams MIL

Hero in the footnotes : the life and times of Richard Cadman Etches : entrepreneur and British spy /Michael Etches. "The book tells the story of Richard Cadman Etches, born in Warwickshire in 1753, who left home while still a youth to seek his fortune in London. He set up a successful liquor and wine importing business and soon acquired his own ship to deal directly with European suppliers. When, in 1784, news came from James Cook's fatal expedition that huge profits could be made from buying sea otter pelts from local tribes on the North Pacific coast of America and selling them in China, he seized his opportunity and set up a trading base in Nootka Sound. Unfortunately, one of his vessels was captured by Spanish forces who believed they controlled the coast, and this almost led to a war with Britain. Richard then became a full time British agent during the turbulent times of the French Revolution and Napoleonic wars and, among his many exploits was the organisation of Sir Sidney Smith's escape from a Paris gaol. He died in penury in a debtors' prison in London in 1817."--Provided by the publisher. 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 942.07092

Royal naval dockyards officers : index of names /compiled by W May. May, W ca. 1960 • FOLIO • 2 copies available.

The mathematical questions, proposed in the ladie's diary, and their original ansears, together with some new solutions, from its commencement in the year 1704 to 1816 Leybourn, Thomas 1817 • RARE-BOOK • 4 copies available. 51:094

A full and correct account of the chief naval occurrences of the late war between Great Britain and the United States of America : preceded by a cursory examination of the American accounts of their naval actions fought previous to that period / by William James. James, William 1817. • RARE-BOOK • 3 copies available. 094:355.49"1776/1815"(42:73)

Lunar tablets : being a new and concise method of reducing lunar observations and finding the longitude at sea /by William Garrard. Garrard, William 1800?] (London : printed by W. Bulmer). • RARE-PAMPH • 2 copies available. 523.34-13(083.4):094

The Campbelltown convicts / Peter J. Hinds. "On 19 March 1818, a young man called John Champley was committed to the House of Correction in Beverley, Yorkshire, England, for two years hard labour. He had been convicted of being a party to the theft of eighty pounds of butt leather in Pocklington on 13 December 1817. Four months later, after an attempted escape from the House of Correction, he was sentenced to transportation to one of His Majesty's 'Plantations or Colonies abroad'. Champley arrived in the penal colony of Sydney Cove on Thursday 7 October 1819 and was assigned to a shoemaker at Parramatta. After receiving his freedom in May 1826, Champley left Parramatta -- with the shoemaker's wife. Early in 1829, Champley and his family left Sydney to live at Bong Bong. In February 1830, following a robbery at the nearby Oldbury estate, Champley and his two alleged accomplices, John Yates and Joseph Shelvey, were sentenced to death at Campbelltown. They were saved from the gallows upon appeal by their barrister and their death penalties commuted to 'life and hard labour in irons'. Champley and Shelvey were sent to Norfolk Island, and Yates to Moreton Bay. About a year later, two captured bushrangers from Jack Donohoe's gang made confessions concerning the robbery and Champley, Shelvey and Yates were brought home and pardoned. However, the trial and incarceration had by now reduced their lives from one of hope to one of despair."--Provided by the publisher. 2012. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 325.51(944)

Science, voyages and encounters in Oceania, 1511-1850 / Bronwen Douglas, adjunct senior fellow, the Australian National University. Spanning four centuries and vast space, this book combines the global history of ideas with particular histories of encounters between European voyagers and Indigenous people in Oceania (Island Southeast Asia, New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands). Douglas shows how prevailing concepts of human difference, or race, influenced travellers' approaches to encounters. Yet their presuppositions were often challenged or transformed by the appearance, conduct, and lifestyle of local inhabitants. The book's original theory and method reveal traces of Indigenous agency in voyagers' representations which in turn provided key evidence for the natural history of man and the science of race. In keeping with recent trends in colonial historiography, Douglas diverts historical attention from imperial centres to so-called peripheries, discredits the outmoded stereotype that Europeans necessarily dominated non-Europeans, and takes local agency seriously. 2014. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 995

A narrative of the proceedings of the British fleet commanded by Admiral Sir John Jervis KB in the late action with the Spanish fleet on the fourteenth of February 1797, off Cape St Vincent's ... Bethune, John Drinkwater 1797 • RARE-FOLIO • 4 copies available. 094:355.49"1797"(469.6)

Books on the move : tracking copies through collections and the book trade /edited by Robin Myers, Michael Harris, and Giles Mandelbrote. "In this volume of the Publishing Pathways series, leading specialists in book history consider examples from the sixteenth to the twentieth century to chart some of the paths followed by books through the European network of print. This may focus on the large collections accumulated by Renaissance scholars, but may equally involve tracking multiple copies of the same work through the marks of ownership left by unknown readers. Books on the Move represents an important contribution to an understanding of the shifting interactions over time between libraries, collectors and the book trade."--Provided by the publisher. 2007. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 655.42(093)

The man who discovered Antarctica : Edward Bransfield explained - the first man to find and chart the Antarctic mainland /Sheila Bransfield. "Captain Cook claimed the honour of being the first man to sail into the Antarctic Ocean in 1773, which he then circumnavigated the following year. Cook, though, did not see any land, and he declared that there was no such thing as the Southern Continent. Fifty years later, an Irishman who had been impressed into the Royal Navy at the age of eighteen and risen through the ranks to reach the position of master, proved Cook wrong and discovered and charted parts of the shoreline of Antarctica. He also discovered what is now Elephant Island and Clarence Island, claiming them for the British Crown. Edward Bransfield's varied naval career included taking part in the Bombardment of Algiers in 1816 onboard the 50-gun warship HMS Severn. Then, in 1817, he was posted to the Royal Navy's Pacific Squadron off Valparaâiso in Chile, and it was while serving there that the owner and skipper of an English whaling ship, the Williams, was driven south by adverse winds and discovered what came to be known as the South Shetland Islands where Cook had said there was no land. Bransfield's superior officer, Captain Shirreff, decided to investigate this discovery further. He chartered Williams and sent Bransfield with a Master's Mate, two midshipmen and a ship's surgeon into the Antarctic - and the Irishman sailed into history. Despite his achievements, and many parts of Antarctica and an Antarctic survey vessel being named after him, as well as a Royal Mail commemorative stamp being issued in his name in 2000, the full story of this remarkable man and his historic journey, have never been told - until now. Following decades of research, Sheila Bransfield MA, a member of the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust, has produced the definitive biography of one of Britain's greatest maritime explorers. The book has been endorsed by the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust, whose patron the Princess Royal, has written the Foreword."--Provided by the publisher. 2019. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92BRANSFIELD

The diary of Joseph Farington / edited by Kenneth Garlick and Angus Macintyre "Joseph Farington (1747-1821) was a professional topographical artist and lived most of his life in London. Through his extensive involvement in the affairs of the Royal Academy, his wide circle of friends, and his membership in several clubs and societies, he touched the life of his time at many points. This diary, which he kept from 1793 until his death, provides a meticulous record of his actions and observations and is an invaluable source for the history of English art and artists. It also constitutes an absorbing record of this period's social, political, and literary developments."--Provided by the publisher. 1978-84 • BOOK • 17 copies available. 92FARINGTON, Joseph

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