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Procédé pour fabriquer l'acier Damassé natural: report
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Société d'Enseignement professionnel du Rhône. Cours de Théorie de Fabrique. Matiéres pour Tissage: manuscript
Manuscripts
This manuscript, written in French by Professor Bon, contains 465 mounted samples of threads, strings and cords including silk thread. It also includes 38 pages of text about weaving, thread, etc. The manuscript was written in Lyon, France and includes a label in the front cover that states it is copy number 58 and intended for "Mr. L. Vernay." It is signed by Bon.
mssHM 75110
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Report of the International Committee on the Nomenclature of Iron and Steel
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This is the "Report on Nomenclature of Iron & Steel" done by the International Committee on the Nomenclature of Iron and Steel. it is signed by the seven members of the committee. It is handwritten.
mssHM 80998
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Sabatelli report to French King Louis Phillippe I
Manuscripts
Manuscript titled "General plan d'une machine pour enfoncer les pilotis maintenant en usage a Davenport (sic), avec l'explication"; report written by James Nasmyth (Sabatelli) to the French King Louis Philippe I, dated London, 21st October 1845, concerning James Nasmyth's steam pile driver; includes colored wash drawing dated 1846. The report is written in English.
mssHM 83604
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The mystery of distilling brieflye unfolded: [instructions for fermenting and distilling liquors, wines, and "some choice waters"]
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The manuscript defines and explains the process of fermentation, with instructions for the fermentation and distillation of wines and liquors and recipes for making brandy, cinnamon water, and "a good water for expelling wind." The author and nationality of this brief account of distilling and fermenting is unknown; according to the dealer from whom it was purchased, the mansucript was found in the attic of an estate on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
mssHM 66750
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Considerations on the Divine Nature of Christ, as held forth in Scripture
Manuscripts
In August 1791, Nicola published a pamphlet titled The Divinity of Jesus Christ Considered from Scripture Evidences (Philadelphia: Printed by Eleazer Oswald, 1791). The pamphlet summarized some five years of study of Scripture prompted by the religious doubts that Nicola prompted by a chance encounter with a copy Joseph Priestley's An appeal to the serious and candid professors of Christianity. Nicola published the pamphlet with the intent to start a public discussion. In January 1793, Samuel Wetherill, a Free Quaker and a noted chemist, published a response to Nicola's treatise, blasting him as a godless follower of Priestley's. The debate, which also involved William White, bishop of Pennsylvania and the dean of Christ Church where Nicola and his family worshipped, became even more animated after Priestly arrived to Philadelphia in June 1794. This manuscript caps the debate. Drawing on rational examination of "the sacred Records" of Scripture, Nicola rejected Trinitarian, Arian, Socinian, and Unitarian views on Christ divinity to formulate his own version of angel Christology. Manuscript is signed: "Lewis Nicolas, of Philadelphia. 1795." It contains: a Preface, Introduction, five Chapters, and Indexes.
mssHM 83176
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Charles Mason Hovey letter
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Letter dated July 4, 1882, from Charles M. Hovey, American horticulturalist, cultivator of fruit and ornamental plants. This letter, written from Boston, discusses his variety of strawberry, "Hovey's Seedling," and compares it to another famous variety of strawberry in detail. The clipping is an obituary of Charles Mason Hovey (1887).
mssHM 83473