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Description: | The Thorneycroft's Patents & Inventions, with Tours, Flights, Trips, Sports, Pastimes and biographical sketch, 1892 [compendium volume, compiled by] Lt.Col. T. Thorneycroft. Comprises several separately paginated sections of photos, articles etc. bound together, including re: Tettenhall Towers, near Wolverhampton (and mechanical machinery and services, to his own designs, some patented, including furniture); carriages; 'Sports and Pastimes ... at Tettenhall Towers' (in poetic form); 'The Heroes of Alicant, Spain, 1709' (1884 article); 'Lecture on visit to Spain, 1890' by Lt. Col. Thorneycroft; balloon trip with Capt. Morton, 1882; a song composed to his wife; an 1889 article on the Thorneycroft family from Biographical Magazine; an 1877 article 'The Closing of the Thorneycroft Ironworks'. Includes illustrations and portraits] | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Subjects: | Compendium volume | Temporal: | 1891 | Source: | Science Museum | Creator: | Thorneycroft, Thomas, b.1822 | Identifier: | 1996-213 | Go to resource |
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