Details

Subjects:

Technology -- Early works to 1800.
Technology.
Hydraulic engineering -- Early works to 1800.
Hydraulic engineering.
France -- History -- Louis XVI, 1774-1793.
France.
History.

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, French.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

In French.

Summary:

Description of a pump for water built at Versailles. Text refers to an announcement published in 1778. Attribution to M. l'abbé comte de Jacquemont added in ink by another hand. Sewn gathering of 2 bifolia.

Local notes:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly owned by Hans Peter Kraus, as part of his ms. 836.
Formerly owned by John D. Stanitz (Cleveland, Ohio), as part of his 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:

798155023

Web link:

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