Liverpool
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Observations on Massey's Patent Sea Log and Sounding Machine, 1805
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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 14/31: 14a-35
Scope and Contents
Printed pamphlet entitled 'Observations on the Principle and Use of the New Patent Sea Log and Sounding Machine, Invented by Edward Massey, of Hanley, Staffordshire', with an engraving of the two machines. The pamphlet was printed in Liverpool and includes a preface in the form of a letter addressed from Smith to Robert Bill, Esquire, in which he describes the invention as 'one of the most important ever offered to the public' [RGO 14/31: 16-17]. It begins with observations on the patent...
Dates:
1805
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