| Description | Gas Lighting Apparatus (6 items).
808. John Maberley, Aberdeen. Nov. 1814, Jan., Mar. 1815. 6 items.
Gas lighting apparatus.
Partially coloured outline plan of the mills marked "with his letter of 12 May 1814"; detailed plans and sections of the mills by Henry Creighton, with a letter from Creighton dated Edinburgh, 18 Nov. 1814 on the same sheet.
Longitudinal section and plan of the building for retorts and gasometer, section through the tar pit, section through the gasometer pit, small plan of the situation of the building - reverse drawings, Mar. 1815. These drawings bear letter codes.
Press copy sketch of an iron roof; notes of various orders Jan. & Mar. 1815 (4 notes stuck together to form one sheet).
Original Portfolio or 'Book' No. 690. Catalogue of Old Engines p. 190.
For John Maberley. Broadford Mills, flax mills, Aberdeen.
Published references: Tann, p. 133 - plan of the mills by Henry Creighton. |