Details

Subjects:

Technology -- Early works to 1800.
Technology.
Iron industry and trade -- France -- History -- 18th century.
Steel industry and trade -- France -- History -- 18th century.
Steel industry and trade.
History.
Iron industry and trade.
France -- History -- Louis XVI, 1774-1793.
France.

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, French.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

In French.

Summary:

Proposition that the contrôleur général des finances (position held by Charles Alexandre de Calonne, 1783-1787) pay for an observer from France to travel to England to learn about the conversion of iron to steel, described as a secret of great importance for France to obtain. A note at the top of the document in another hand, dated 22 Oct. 1784, records approval of the plan.

Local notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Penn Provenance:

Separated from manuscript formerly owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, ms. 22927 (note in pencil on verso, Kraus?).
Sold as part of the residue of the Phillipps collection first to William H. Robinson Ltd., 1945, and again to H. P. Kraus, Mar. 1978; part of Kraus's ms. 836.
Formerly owned by John D. Stanitz (Cleveland, Ohio), as part of Ms. 11.
Acquired by Lawrence J. Schoenberg with other Stanitz manuscripts, Sept. 1997.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.

Cited as:

UPenn LJS 180.

Contributor:

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.
Kraus, Hans Peter, 1907-1988, former owner.
Stanitz, John D., former owner.
Schoenberg, Lawrence J., former owner.
Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

OCLC:

798129761

Web link:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page