Methode de faire elever d'eau de toute profondeurs quelconque comme 100 à 200 toises plus ou moins, par une simple pompe aspirante placé à niveau de terre, 1783

Contributor:

Kraus, Hans Peter, 1907-1988 (former owner); Stanitz, John D. (former owner); Schoenberg, Lawrence J. (former owner)

Name:

Doinet, Nicolas

Timespan:

Early works to 1800; Louis XVI, 1774-1793

Date:

1783

Description:

Description of a pump for lifting water; refers to diagrams which are not present. Accompanied by a sheet with a title in the same hand, Memoire, methode, et plan sur de nouvelles machines hydrauliques, which seems to refer to multiple items of which this manuscript was one. Written in Marseille, 26 October 1783, signed Doinet, mécanicien.

Language:

French

Provenance:

Formerly owned by Hans Peter Kraus, as part of ms. 836.; Formerly owned by John D. Stanitz (Cleveland, Ohio), as part of Ms. 11.; Acquired by Lawrence J. Schoenberg with other Stanitz manuscripts, Sept. 1997.; Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.; Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2016.

Relation:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278; Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs180_item15.html

Subject:

Technology -- Early works to 1800; Technology; Hydraulic engineering -- Early works to 1800; Hydraulic engineering; History

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Manuscripts, French; Manuscripts, European

Physical Description:

1 item (2 leaves)

Geographic Subject:

France -- History -- Louis XVI, 1774-1793; France

Rights:

https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Engineer; sergeant in the National Guard of Marseille, credited for the plan by which revolutionaries took over the fort of Notre Dame de la Garde in Marseille in 1790.; Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.; In French.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, LJS 180

Collection:

Industrial History Letters and Documents; Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)