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Inventions, Improvements, and Practice of Benjamin Thompson, in the Character of Colliery Engineer, and General Manager with Some Interesting Particulars Relative to Watt's Steam Engine, and a Short Treatise on the Coal Trade Regulation,

Name: Inventions, Improvements, and Practice of Benjamin Thompson, in the Character of Colliery Engineer, and General Manager with Some Interesting Particulars Relative to Watt's Steam Engine, and a Short Treatise on the Coal Trade Regulation,
Author: THOMPSON, Benjamin

Book Description

Newcastle: M. & M.W. Lambert, viii, 133 pages, two folding plates with twenty-six engraved figures, significant hinge gaping in two places where stitching has parted. John Johnson's name to head of title page. Tired cloth binding with remnant paper spine label. Later free endpapers significantly cropped.

Dealer Notes

Benjamin Thompson, a mining engineer and coal owner was a director of the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway and surveyed the route in the 1820s. In 1835 he established an iron works at Wylam where he built several locomotives.
The North of England Mining Institute holds an archive of reports, leases and correspondence relating to George and John Johnson. The material relates to collieries in the Willington area, where both Johnsons were employed as agent.

Author THOMPSON, Benjamin

Date 1847

Price: £195.00

Offered by Paul Hughes

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