A Few Hints for the Ingenious to improve on for the Benefit of Mariners

This anonymous MS. contains suggestions for cork packaging of goods sent by sea, the corking of casks and bottles, and the use of rockets or other means of propulsion for life-lines in the case of ship-wreck. Dated at the end 'June 1st 1804'. Bound in a volume of pamphlets mostly relating to preservation from drowning, life-saving at sea, etc. (PB. T. 225 (10).)

1804

1 volume 16 ll. (first 2 & last 5 bl.). 8vo. 191/2 × 15 cm. Lower margins cropped in binding.

Purchased 1910.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

Shelved amongst printed books (T. 225(10))