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Technical drawings.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Refers to the broad class of drawings that are intended for constructional, mechanical, or mapping purposes and that follow precise conventions of scale and projection.

Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:

Business papers, notebooks, diaries, maps and plans of Robert Stevenson and Sons, civil engineers.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10706/1-697
Scope and Contents These papers contain the business archive of the Stevensons from the late 18th century to the mid 20th century. They consist mainly of letterbooks, incoming correspondence, reports, memoranda, maps and plans, with a large number of printed pamphlets and reports by the Stevensons and others, concerning all the civil engineering works with which the family was involved. The main interest lies in the material relating to harbours and to lighthouse construction, and to the work of the Northern...
Dates: 1636-1963.

Papers of John Rennie concerning harbours in places beginning Dy-H., 1796-1821

 File
Identifier: MS.19794
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Dysart, estimate and letters, 1821 (folio 1); (ii) Ebbo, reports and estimate, 1820-1821 (folio 6); (iii) Errol, letter, 1820 (folio 14); (iv) Fishguard, letters and report, 1819 (folio 16); (v) Fraserburgh, daily observations of winds, tides, and weather, October 1807-November 1808 (folio 28); (vi) Greenock, correspondence, 1806-1809 (folio 38); (vii) Grimsby, estimates, reports and correspondence, 1796-1799, 1804-1806, concerning lock gates between the...
Dates: 1796-1821

Papers of John Rennie concerning overseas operations in India., 1795-1821, 1935.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.19821
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) MacKonochie's sawmill, correspondence, 1795-1796 (folio 1); (ii) Bombay harbour, report, 1796 (folio 26); (iii) Calcutta Mint, correspondence and estimates, 1821 (folio 30); (iv) Lucknow, correspondence, drawing, and report concerning an engine and a cast iron bridge for, 1812-1815, with a press photograph of the bridge, 1935 (folio 65).

Dates: 1795-1821, 1935.

Papers of John Rennie concerning steam engines., 1778-1811, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.19825
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Letters and estimate concerning the purchase by the government, for the use of the dockyard at Deptford, of the engine belonging to the Honourable George Villiers at Aldenham, 1811-1813 (folio 1); (ii) Reports, possibly by William Murdock, on the engines at Ale and Cakes, and Dolcoath copper mines near Redruth in Cornwall, 1782 (folio 9); (iii) Description of a Boulton and Watt engine made for Mark Bell, Battersea, undated (folio 13); (iv) Letters concerning...
Dates: 1778-1811, undated.

Printed and miscellaneous papers of the 2nd Earl of Minto., 1847, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.12237
Scope and Contents

The contents are as follows. (i) James Richardson, Touarick Alphabet with the Corresponding Arabic and English letters’ (London, 1847) (folio l); (ii) Miscellaneous observations and trigonometric drawings undated (folio 7).

Dates: 1847, undated.