PP/14/2/3/29 - [Letter, Mr Glossop to Jack Pritchard, 13/8/54]

Reference code

PP/14/2/3/29

Level of description

Item

Title

[Letter, Mr Glossop to Jack Pritchard, 13/8/54]

Date/s

1954

Quantity & Format

1 leaf Letters (typescript)

Personal name

Brunel, Marc Isambard,
Bentham, Samuel, 1757-1831
Maudslay, Henry, 1771-1831

Creator

Glossop, [---?],

Creator

Pritchard, John Craven,

Administrative/Biographical history

recipient

Scope and content

Glossop discusses the invention of "machines to reduce the high cost of hand made pulley block" by Marc Isambard Brunel and Sir Samuel Bentham. "Henry Maudslay was employed in the actual construction of the machines." Letter annotated by Glossop on recto.

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