RefNo | CB/1/1/139 |
AltRefNo | BLA.B.56 |
Level | Item |
Title | Letter from Sir Joseph Banks, Soho Square to Charles Blagden, Paris |
Date | 22 December 1814 |
Description | Discusses Reichenbach and his making of object glasses, the new observatory at Naples, printing presses (Konig's press prints 700 newspapers an hour), a new form of gunpowder, steam engines, fattening of geese and the rapid increase in gas lighting. |
Extent | 1 sheet |
Format | Manuscript |
AccessStatus | Open |
RelatedMaterial | Item 318, The Banks Letters, A Calendar of the manuscript correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks preserved in the British Museum... London, 1958. |
Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA8116 | Banks; Sir; Joseph (1744 - 1820); naturalist | 1744 - 1820 |