Two manuscript Engineering Diaries [so signed and titled], November 1837 to December 1838; January 1839 to September 1839. SIZE : 10 x 4 inches, 66 pages total. The first diary is primarily concerned with steam ships, engines, cannons and the manufacture of iron. For example - 'Went on board the iron ship Ironsides, Clinker built - rivets counter sunk, Stem and Stern port solid 3 in. thick, plates brought up at ea. side of them & rivetted thro, each rivet passing thro' plate stem or stern port & plates, strong iron knees at intervals of abt. 2ft. or 18 in. transversely across stem post rivetted also to the plates.' Towards the end, the entries deal with the manufacture and function of instruments such as a Pulse Glass, Sympiesometer for mea

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