Details

Subjects:

Technology.
Fire extinction -- Equipment and supplies.
Fire extinction -- History.
Fire extinction.
History.
France -- History -- Consulate and First Empire, 1799-1815.
France.

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, French.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

In French.

Biography/History:

Engineer; honorary member of the Athenée des arts de Paris; chevalier de Berainville.

Summary:

Description of models of 5 inventions for rescuing people or precious objects from fire (parafeux), selected from the collection of machines whose models were displayed in the Salon du Louvre from 1792 to Year 8 of the Republic (1799-1800). Concludes with a copy of a testimonial dated 13 nivôse in Year 8 of the Republic (3 January 1800) from Jean Francois Bralle, engineer in chief (ingénieur en chef du Département au Bureau Central). Sewn gathering of 4 bifolia, with later pagination in pencil, 185-197, upper right recto; text block outlined in red ink, some text in red ink.

Notes:

A printed edition of the full collection was published under the title Recueil de mécanique relatif a l'agriculture et aux arts et description des machines économiques (Paris: Bernard) in Year 10 of the Republic (1801-1802).

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:

798152482

Web link:

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