Chepstow
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
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Letter from Douglas A Spalding to Charles Robert Darwin; written at Chepstow, 1874-07-21
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 177: 221
Scope and Contents
Letter from Douglas A Spalding to Charles Robert Darwin; written at Chepstow
(Letter)
Dates:
1874-07-21
Conditions Governing Access:
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Papers on engineering and inventions, 1848 - 1852
File
Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/452
Scope and Contents
Miscellaneous correspondence and papers regarding engineering and new inventions. There are pieces on the Britannia Tubular Bridge, including the lifting of the bridge by R. Stephenson; stress in iron bridges; I.K. Brunel on his Chepstow bridge; notices and awards of the Institution of Civil Engineers; the Smeafonian Society for Civil Engineers; 'Caldwell's self-fleeting windlass'; advertisements for gutta percha; a report on vulcanised India-rubber joints by T. Wicksteed; a rapid water...
Dates:
1848 - 1852
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Management Group:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).