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Henry Maudslay 1771-1831 and Maudslay Sons and Field Ltd : a commemorative brochure to mark the establishment Maudslay Society 1956 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 92Maudslay, Henry
Henry Maudslay : machine builder /K.R. Gilbert. Gilbert, K. R. (Keith Reginald), 1971. • PAMPHLET • 2 copies available. 92Maudslay
Maudslay, Sons and Field as general engineers Petree, J Foster 1935 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 62
A short treatise upon the Belleville water-tube boiler, its uses and advantages Maudslay, Field, & Ltd 1894 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 621.18
The true history of the conquest of New Spain Castillo, Bernal Diaz del 1908-1916 • BOOK • 5 copies available. 325.3(72)
Proceedings of the fifth symposium on shipbuilding on the Thames : Symposium organised by the Docklands History Group held at the Museum of London Dockyards, February 2012 /Chris Ellmers "The symposium, the first to be organised by the Group, took place in February 2012. The following papers, read on that day, are included in the proceedings which were edited by Chris Ellmers: Foreshore Archaeology: Thames Shipbuilding and Breaking by Gustav Milne and Eliott Wragg/The Mysterie of the Shipwrights by Rodney Brown/Gordon and Company, Deptford: Discovering a lost London Shipyard by Chris Ellmers/Artists and the Thames Shipyards byPieter ven der Merve/Thames Sailing Barges and their Builders by Richard Hugh Perks/John Scott Russell and the Construction of HMS Warrior by Andrew Lambert/Maudslay, Sons and Field's Greenwich Shipyard by Mary Mills/The Social and Economic Impact of the Closure of Thorneycroft's Yard, Chiswick in 1909. by James Wisdom."--Provided by the Publisher. 2013 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 629.12
The world of visual time signals for mariners : time balls, time guns, time lights and other signals /Roger Kinns, editor "This book describes the worldwide evolution of land-based visual time signals that were used by mariners in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries for accurate navigation at sea. They followed development of chronometers which were carried in ships to show mean time at Greenwich, the chosen prime meridian. Greenwich time could be compared with local astronomical time to determine longitude, but chronometers were mechanical devices that had to be checked for accuracy. Land-based signals that were regulated by astronomical observations evolved from the ideas in 1818 of Robert Wauchope, a British naval officer who served at the Cape of Good Hope. He inspired introduction of time balls, specifically the time ball at Greenwich in 1833 which set the standard for subsequent installations and is still in operation today. The main emphasis is on the external appearance of time signals at different locations around the world and how they were used by mariners for rating chronometers. Time ballsand guns also became popular signals for public use and workplace control but then had social and political implications."-- 2024. • BOOK • 1 copy available. txt