Lot 64
Mechanical Engineer.- Head (Jeremiah, railway and steam engineer) Diary, autograph manuscript, 1857.
Hammer Price: £600
Description
Mechanical Engineer.- Head (Jeremiah, railway and steam engineer, worked for Robert Stephenson & Co., part founder of Fox, Head & Co., 1835-99) Diary, autograph manuscript, 149pp. & 21pp. index, slightly browned, original morocco, slightly rubbed, 8vo, 1857-[58].
⁂ An interesting diary, filled with Head's work for Robert Stephenson & Co, "At R.S. & Co's we have just got an order for 50 locomotives for the Lombardo-Venetian line", and other projects including designing regulators for steam mills, and designing steam ploughs for John Fowler. Includes a meeting with Edward Pease (1767-1858), woollen manufacturer and railway promoter, "By & bye old Neddy came in, shook my hand & said he had often wanted to see me. He is a remarkably fine pleasant well-informed old man 90 years old & as brisk as most men of 70. He talked a deal about the Stephensons &c... I was delighted to to have made the acquaintance of a man so celebrated in the history of railways".
Description
Mechanical Engineer.- Head (Jeremiah, railway and steam engineer, worked for Robert Stephenson & Co., part founder of Fox, Head & Co., 1835-99) Diary, autograph manuscript, 149pp. & 21pp. index, slightly browned, original morocco, slightly rubbed, 8vo, 1857-[58].
⁂ An interesting diary, filled with Head's work for Robert Stephenson & Co, "At R.S. & Co's we have just got an order for 50 locomotives for the Lombardo-Venetian line", and other projects including designing regulators for steam mills, and designing steam ploughs for John Fowler. Includes a meeting with Edward Pease (1767-1858), woollen manufacturer and railway promoter, "By & bye old Neddy came in, shook my hand & said he had often wanted to see me. He is a remarkably fine pleasant well-informed old man 90 years old & as brisk as most men of 70. He talked a deal about the Stephensons &c... I was delighted to to have made the acquaintance of a man so celebrated in the history of railways".
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