Details

Subjects:

Technology -- Early works to 1800.
Technology.
Metallurgy -- Early works to 1800.
Metallurgy.
Thermometers -- Early works to 1800.
Thermometers.
France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799.
France.
History.

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, French.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

In French.

Summary:

Draft letter concerning metallurgy and thermometers (thermomètres metalliques), with multiple deletions and additions, dated according to the Republican calendar (29 nivose, year uncertain), addressed to the editors of a journal with reference to No. 113 of the journal. Signature illegible.

Local notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Hans Peter Kraus, as part of 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:

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:

798129848

Web link:

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