Specifications.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Detailed and exact statements of particulars, especially statements prescribing materials, dimensions, and workmanship for something to be built, installed, or manufactured.
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Accounts and related correspondence for alterations to the Faculty of Advocates Library.
File
Identifier: F.R.345/12
Dates:
1870.
Business papers, notebooks, diaries, maps and plans of Robert Stevenson and Sons, civil engineers.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10706/1-697
Scope and Contents
These papers contain the business archive of the Stevensons from the late 18th century to the mid 20th century. They consist mainly of letterbooks, incoming correspondence, reports, memoranda, maps and plans, with a large number of printed pamphlets and reports by the Stevensons and others, concerning all the civil engineering works with which the family was involved. The main interest lies in the material relating to harbours and to lighthouse construction, and to the work of the Northern...
Dates:
1636-1963.
Contemporary copy of specifications by John Rennie and others for the Crinan Canal.
Item
Identifier: MS.9499
Scope and Contents
Also included are John Rennie's estimate for the work (folio 33 verso) and notes on the cost of the Forth and Clyde Canal in 1789 (folio 47).
Dates:
1793.
Correspondence of the Faculty of Advocates chiefly concerning alteration specifications to the Advocates Library and accounts for the installation of heating apparatus.
File
Identifier: F.R.344/13
Dates:
1853-1864.
Notebook containing transcripts of specifications and articles by various authors relating to a wide variety of small engineering undertakings, owned and chiefly compiled by R Blackadder.
Item
Identifier: MS.19981
Scope and Contents
R Blackadder worked in Dundee, and appears to have been a member of the family of mapmakers and civil engineers from Berwickshire. He was part estate management consultant and part engineer. His interests ranged from manure and drainage, to the construction of damheads, ice houses, bridges, and railway curves. He also made notes on landlord tenant relations, on crop rotation, and on the organisation of various large estates. His work was primarily in Angus, but he spent some time in...
Dates:
Mid 19th century-late 19th century.
Reports and letters concerning proposed building works at the Faculty of Advocates Library.
File
Identifier: F.R.345/10
Dates:
1858-1863.
Specification by Patrick Miller of Dalswinton of his invention of a flat-bottomed boat propelled by paddles worked by capstans.
Item
Identifier: Ch.2522
Dates:
1796.