| Description | Boilers and Heating Apparatus (10 items).
1334z. Miscellaneous Steam Heating Items. Mar. 1796, May 1810, Aug. 1824, 1843, not dated. 10 items.
"Air Heating Apparatus, by steam" - memorandum listing apparatus supplied 1805-1816, in William Creighton's hand.
Small memorandum giving details of some of the apparatus supplied.
Letter from Gavin McMurdo to James Lawson dated Manchester, 30 May 18- [date torn away], with sketch of a mill, reference to Birley's pump etc.
Letter from Henry Creighton dated Manchester, 10 May 1810, with plans of Birley & Hornby and Mr. Cardwell's warehouses showing proposed pipes, boilers etc., docketed "New sketches of Birley & Hornby & Mr. Cardwell's heating pipes. Pooley's drawings received. Harrison's cistern & keys for wheels are preparing there, & need not be sent"
Sketch of pipes "something like the heating pipes in Mr. Ewart's factory…" by James Fairweather, Aug. 1824.
Sketch and dimensions of thin 9 and 6 foot pipe lengths for "heating &c.", not dated.
Section and plan of "worm tub" (tub with a copper coil or "worm" inside) - press copy sketch.
Also the following items re heating apparatus by other engineers:
"Cotton Mill Stoves" by William Kelly - sheet of coloured sections and accompanying description and letter from Kelly to James Lawson dated Cotton Mills, New Lanark, 24 Mar. 1796
Printed advertisement and testimonials for heating apparatus by George & John Haden, Trowbridge, circa 1843. |