Technical drawings.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Refers to the broad class of drawings that are intended for constructional, mechanical, or mapping purposes and that follow precise conventions of scale and projection.
Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:
Blueprint, undated, containing elevation and plan, ?1913, of HM Submarine E4., ?1913.
Item
Identifier: Ch.15518
Blueprint, undated, of drawing, 20 January 1910, of arrangement of filter for each 6500/7500 KW turbo at Stuart Street Manchester., 20 January 1910.
Item
Identifier: Ch.15515
Blueprint, undated, of site plan, 30 November 1910, of air supply plant for three turbos at Stuart Street, Manchester, with amendments in red ink., 30 November 1910.
Item
Identifier: Ch.15516
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.
Copy, undated, of sketch, 22 February 1913, with additions in ink, shewing heads of trunks in HMS King George V experimented with by the Ventilation Committee., 22 February 1913.
Item
Identifier: Ch.15517
Coursework and examinations undertaken by James Johnston as a student at the Royal Military College of Science., 1962-1963
File
Identifier: Acc.13818/19
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Major-General James Johnston was born in Edinburgh in August 1939. He was educated at George’s Watson’s College, Welbeck College and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, from which he was commissioned in July 1959 into the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. He underwent postgraduate training at the Royal Military Academy of science and REME Officers School.
His training was completed by 1965 and he served several appointments as commanding officer within Germany and the United...
Dates:
1962-1963
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of Major-General James Johnston
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Papers relating to the military career of James Johnston.
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Papers relating to the military and technical training, and subsequent regimental service, of James Johnston.
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Papers relating to James Johnston as a student at the Royal Military College of Science.
Documents relating to the invention of 'Junorule' calculation device created by James Johnston., 1965-1967
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13818/47-49
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Major-General James Johnston was born in Edinburgh in August 1939. He was educated at George’s Watson’s College, Welbeck College and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, from which he was commissioned in July 1959 into the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. He underwent postgraduate training at the Royal Military Academy of science and REME Officers School.
His training was completed by 1965 and he served several appointments as commanding officer within Germany and the United...
Dates:
1965-1967
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Papers of Major-General James Johnston
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Papers relating to the military career of James Johnston.
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Papers relating to the military and technical training, and subsequent regimental service, of James Johnston.
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Papers relating to the regimental service of James Johnston with the Royal Welch Fusiliers.
Drawing of a proposed ornamental bridge and waterfall at Minto by James Ramsay., 1783.
Item
Identifier: MS.13456
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The founder of the family was Gilbert Elliot (1651-1718), a younger son of Gavin Elliot of Midlem Mill. Gilbert Elliot was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates in 1688, created a baronet in 1700, and appointed a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1705; he acquired the lands of Headshaw in Roxburghshire in 1696, and added Minto to his property in 1703.
Sir Gilbert Elliot, 2nd Baronet (1693-1766), likewise had a distinguished legal career, becoming a Lord of Session as Lord Minto in 1726, a...
Dates:
1783.
Drawing of Castleton Bothy., 1856.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13827/990
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
The papers cover six centuries worth of family and estate papers of the Forbes, the Stuart Forbes, and the Trefusis families. Alexander de Forbes (c.1380-1448) was created the 1st Lord Forbes around 1440, the Lords Forbes of Pitsligo were descended from Sir William Forbes, brother of Alexander. The title was created in 1633 for Alexander Forbes (d.1636). His descendant Alexander Forbes, 4th Lord Forbes of Pitsligo (1678-1762) forfeited his estates following his support for the Jacobites in...
Dates:
1856.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Further papers of the Forbes and Stuart Forbes families of Fettercairn and Pitsligo, with papers of the Trefusis family relating to Fettercairn and Pitsligo.
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Estate Papers of the Forbes, Stuart Forbes and Trefusis Families.
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Estate Management Papers.
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Maps, plans and drawings.
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Plans and drawings.
Miscellaneous formal documents, and blueprints of engineering drawings of, and concerning, J S Haldane.
Series
Identifier: Ch.15513-15521
Dates:
1860-1936.
Papers of John Rennie concerning harbours in places beginning Dy-H., 1796-1821
File
Identifier: MS.19794
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Dysart, estimate and letters, 1821 (folio 1);
(ii) Ebbo, reports and estimate, 1820-1821 (folio 6);
(iii) Errol, letter, 1820 (folio 14);
(iv) Fishguard, letters and report, 1819 (folio 16);
(v) Fraserburgh, daily observations of winds, tides, and weather, October 1807-November 1808 (folio 28);
(vi) Greenock, correspondence, 1806-1809 (folio 38);
(vii) Grimsby, estimates, reports and correspondence, 1796-1799, 1804-1806, concerning lock gates between the...
Dates:
1796-1821
Papers of John Rennie concerning overseas operations in India., 1795-1821, 1935.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MS.19821
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) MacKonochie's sawmill, correspondence, 1795-1796 (folio 1); (ii) Bombay harbour, report, 1796 (folio 26); (iii) Calcutta Mint, correspondence and estimates, 1821 (folio 30); (iv) Lucknow, correspondence, drawing, and report concerning an engine and a cast iron bridge for, 1812-1815, with a press photograph of the bridge, 1935 (folio 65).
Dates:
1795-1821, 1935.
Papers of John Rennie concerning steam engines., 1778-1811, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.19825
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows.
(i) Letters and estimate concerning the purchase by the government, for the use of the dockyard at Deptford, of the engine belonging to the Honourable George Villiers at Aldenham, 1811-1813 (folio 1);
(ii) Reports, possibly by William Murdock, on the engines at Ale and Cakes, and Dolcoath copper mines near Redruth in Cornwall, 1782 (folio 9);
(iii) Description of a Boulton and Watt engine made for Mark Bell, Battersea, undated (folio 13);
(iv) Letters concerning...
Dates:
1778-1811, undated.
Papers of the 2nd Earl of Minto relating to his scientific interests., 1817-1851, undated.
Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.12235-12237
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1782-1859) was styled Viscount Melgund from 1813 and succeeded as Earl of Minto in 1814. He was Member of Parliament for Ashburton, 1806-1807, and for Roxburghshire, 1812-1814; and served as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Prussia 1832-1834, First Lord of the Admiralty, 1835-1841, Lord Privy Seal, 1846-1852, and on a special mission to Switzerland and the states of Italy, 1847-1848. The papers reflect fully the 2nd Earl's...
Dates:
1817-1851, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, (1782-1859), 2nd Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence, papers and notebooks of the 2nd Earl of Minto concerning his scientific interests, particularly meteorology.
Papers relating to the regimental service of James Johnston with the Royal Welch Fusiliers., 1965-1967
Sub-Series
Identifier: Acc.13818/41-50
Scope and Contents
From the Fonds:
Major-General James Johnston was born in Edinburgh in August 1939. He was educated at George’s Watson’s College, Welbeck College and the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, from which he was commissioned in July 1959 into the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers. He underwent postgraduate training at the Royal Military Academy of science and REME Officers School.
His training was completed by 1965 and he served several appointments as commanding officer within Germany and the United...
Dates:
1965-1967
Printed and miscellaneous papers of the 2nd Earl of Minto., 1847, undated.
File
Identifier: MS.12237
Scope and Contents
The contents are as follows. (i) James Richardson, Touarick Alphabet with the Corresponding Arabic and English letters’ (London, 1847) (folio l); (ii) Miscellaneous observations and trigonometric drawings undated (folio 7).
Dates:
1847, undated.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of the Elliot family of Minto.
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Correspondence and papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot Murray Kynynmound, (1782-1859), 2nd Earl of Minto.
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Correspondence, papers and notebooks of the 2nd Earl of Minto concerning his scientific interests, particularly meteorology.
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Papers of the 2nd Earl of Minto relating to his scientific interests.