Rennie, John, engineer, 1761-1821
Person
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Letter of James Watt to John Rennie, including a detailed abstract of observations by John Southern, Watt's assistant, on Rowland and Pickering's lock machine for canals.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14074
Dates:
1797
Letter of John Rennie to Robert Stevenson.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10771
Scope and Contents
Concerns the Bell Rock Lighthouse.
Dates:
1807.
Papers of John Rennie (1761-1821), engineer.
Fonds
Identifier: MSS.19771-19965
Scope and Contents
John Rennie was one of the distinguished group of Scottish engineers whose work contributed so much to the industrial and commercial development of the United Kingdom in the early 19th century. With the exception of roads, in which he appears not to have been interested, and steam engines, which he promised Watt not to build - though he frequently constructed the accompanying machinery - there was very little in the field of engineering that lay outside the range of his activities.
This...
Dates:
1768-1821, undated.
Papers of John Rennie (1761-1821), engineer, and his son, Sir John Rennie (1794-1874).
Series
Identifier: MSS.19966-19968
Dates:
1788-1829.
Transcript, 1993, of letter of John Rennie to Robert Stevenson.
Item
Identifier: Acc.10757
Dates:
1807.
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- Bell Rock. Europe - United Kingdom - Scotland - Fife. rock. Longitude: -2.3833. Latitude: 56.4167. 1
- Civil Engineering. 1
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- Family papers. 1
- Financial records. 1
- Plans (drawings). 1
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