Collection ID: 0001 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Authors

• Person, Citoyen

Other related names

• Kraus, Hans Peter, 1907-1988, former owner
• Stanitz, John D, former owner

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 5783332
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5783332

Publisher

Language

Summary

Description of models of 5 inventions for rescuing people or precious objects from fire (parafeux), selected from the collection of machines whose models were displayed in the Salon du Louvre from 1792 to Year 8 of the Republic (1799-1800). Concludes with a copy of a testimonial dated 13 nivôse in Year 8 of the Republic (3 January 1800) from Jean Francois Bralle, engineer in chief (ingénieur en chef du Département au Bureau Central). Sewn gathering of 4 bifolia, with later pagination in pencil, 185-197, upper right recto; text block outlined in red ink, some text in red ink.

Notes

• A printed edition of the full collection was published under the title Recueil de mécanique relatif a l'agriculture et aux arts et description des machines économiques (Paris: Bernard) in Year 10 of the Republic (1801-1802).
   

Extent

Provenance

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

Subjects topical

• Technology
• Fire extinction--Equipment and supplies
• Fire extinction--History

Genres

• Manuscripts, French--19th century
• Manuscripts, European

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