Contracts for Victualling and Ordnance Supplies 1837
Notices from the Department of the Comptroller and the Admiralty announce tenders for 2000 quarters red wheat 500 quarters white wheat 70 tons sugar 300 quarters oats and 100000 pounds suet with staged delivery over weeks. Samples and conditions viewable at Somerset Office. Tender closes at 1 pm on treaty day. Also public auction of old store items at the Tower on Oct 25–26 1837.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bus
Comptro ¢ Victualling and Transport Services
Somerset-place
United Am of
Great Britain and Ireland
Her Majesty
Deptford
Secretary of the Admiralty
Somerset
Office OF Ordnance
Her Majesty's Ordnance
Renee Mags
Conversion of Mexican Bonds and Railway Tender Notices
Notice on conversion of Mexican Bonds and arrears of interest in London under the decree of 1837 with lists for new bonds available. Birmingham and Derby Junction Railway tenders invited for beltway works and several contract sections in Warwickshire and Staffordshire, with bonds and sureties required and tender forms at the Birmingham office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
F. ‘de Lisardi, and Co
Birmingham and Derby Junction
Wily's Oiffice
Waterloo-street
Birmingham
Noventer
Leeds
Hawkeswell
Perporiah Rkounty
Stonebridge
Hoggerhill's End
Nether Whitacre
Warwick
Kingsbury
Marmer
Elford
Tamworth
Clifton Campville
Tame
Trent
Croxall
Stafford
Thomas Kell
France
Cote Hote
Cashire
Thorne
Jan
Humartel Wheel
Spain
En Ey
Wi &c
Ludgate-Hill
Saure
Bill Ewly
Alexander
A. Pasle
Keate
B. Farre
A. Mothes
Royal Academy of Medicine
Paris
John Warwick
Lawrence Pountney-lane
T. Axtell
Ieee
Pat
Warren
Giant steam plough moves bogs with English strength
A detailed description explains a towering steam plough operated by three to four stout Englishmen. The machine weighs about twenty five tons, spans 32 feet, and runs on an endless wooden rail belt while the engine powers furrow cutting and soil slicing with vertically and horizontally arranged knives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Railwa
Parkes
Blacklock
Permanent Soap Bubbles as Explained by Reade Essay
A summary of Joseph Reade’s Ingenious essay in the London Philosophical Magazine on permanent soap bubbles. The piece notes Boyle Hooke Newton and later scientists studied coloured films in thin plates and in bubbles, linking colour to thinness without chemical change, and hints at further experimentation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Irving
Prairie
Waterloo
Roby O'More
Sambel Lover
Ben Brace
Sailor
Theodore Hook
Chrichton
Rookwood
Scotsman
Sir Walter Scott
Mr. Lockhart
Robert Cadell
Edinburgh
John Murray
Whittaker
Price
W. Walford
Homerton
London
Jackson
Jackson and Walford
St. Paul's Churchyard
London Philosophical Magazine
Joseph Reade
Boyle
Hooke
Isaac Newton
Soap film colours and a permanent bubble
The Royal Society and Newton era experiments on soap bubbles reveal a sequence of colours in a thin film as atmospheric pressure is reduced. Reade later demonstrated a method for a permanent soap bubble, with Brewster chairing at Liverpool.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hooke
Isaac Newton
Theoky
Dr. Hooke
Royal Society
Europe
Melville
Edinburgh
Tropica
Reade
British Association
Liverpool
D. Brewster
New Zealanders described in harsh colonial critique and notices
A colonial account denounces New Zealanders for pickpocketing weight in flax and wetting produce, dirty clothing, vermin, sacred customs, and rough social norms. The piece also reports Postmaster General orders on delivery revenue from October, a prize offer for an essay on opium trade, and a London theatre preview praising Forrest’s performance in Othello and Lear roles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Zealand
Sydney Herald
Canton
Bridgman
Chinese Repository
Society For the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
Ma. Foranst
New Fork Evening Post
Forrest
London
Drury Lane Theatre
Lear
Othello
Macbeth
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R. Byham
Lubeck
ST. Petersburg
Alexandra
J. C. D. Nicolay
N. W
Nasled Nek
G. B. Boss
St Petersburg
Cronstadt
Travemunde
Aail
Ipaele Life Assurance Company
Crescent, Bridpeathet
Blackfriars
William RA
Lee
J. Macgrigor
Charles Barry Baldwin
Samuel Birch
Charles Thomas Hotcombe
John Kingston
WLMNS
SHAWE
Walter Anderson Peacock
Fay John Richards
Potter
Richard Whiteaves
William Wyhrow
John Newton, Esq
C. J. Campbell
J. G. Lynde
Eaghe Insurance Company
Lomton
William Rawlins
T,agle
Insurance Company
Crescent
Henry P. Smith
Romoter Life Assurance and Annuity Company
Chathamn-place
M. Saward
Geo. Farren
Asylum Life Office
Cornhill
Ad Asus Foreign and Domestic Life Office
Waterloo-place
William Fraser
Sir June, Law Lushington, K.C.B
Tet Palmer
E Eergrom
Francs Kemble
Psicia Coryum
H. Bayote
SCE Ag
Oreo Oe
Call of Health
Morison
Field
Quadrant
Regent-street
Lofts
Mile-end
Chappell
Royal Exchange
Haslitt
Ratcliffe Way
Edgware-roed
British College of Health
Hamft
King's Cross
British College of Heal
D. B. Red
Army
Navy
Rorburgh-place
Richard Bentley
New Burlington-street
T &Vo
Crauford
Grenadier Guards
Sirewenry Colburn
Great Marlborough-street
Henry Colby Colburn
Great Marlborough - Street
Richard Bentapes
Kew
Burlington-street
May
T. Haynes Bayly, Esq
Souter
Behool
Fleet-street
Gout
Outer
Linnington
Clark
E. Tr
Queen's College, Cambridge
Professor Young
J. Souter
Choc
Llagrole
W. H. Spiller
Storms
Atlantic
Gambia
Colonial Library
BR Montgomery Martin
Whittaker and Co
Ave Maria Jane
Cape Court Castle
Falkland Islands
ST. Helena
Ascension
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