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Great Seal Patent Office (Great Britain)
volumes (various pagings) : illustrations (folded plates) ; 28 cm.
Specification of William Robert Lake. Machinery for making horse-shoes -- Specification of David Longsdon and Percy Toppin. Horse-shoes -- Specification of Patrick Adie. Clipping horses, &c. -- Specification of George Laycock. Controlling horses by electricity -- Specification of Thomas Coleman. Rollers for horse-cloths -- Specification of William Morgan-Brown. Harnessing horses -- Specification of John Skeffington Shelley. Clipping horses, &c. -- Specification of Richard Winder & Henry Pritchett. Horse-shoes -- Specification of Frank Wirth. Horse-shoes -- Specification of Alphonse Pilté. Horse-shoes -- Specification of William Armstrong Broadribb. Stopping runaway horses, &c. -- Specification of William Edward Gedge. Horse-shoe -- Specification of Edward Price and Edward price the younger. Horse-shoes -- Specification of Josiah Swain and William Chamberlain. Horse-shoes -- Specification of John Garrett Tongue. Clothes horses, &c.
Title from spine. Spine has volume enumeration from original binding library, Manchester Public Libraries, Manchester Central Library, Commercial and Technical Library.
Comprised of individual 19th C. reprints of English patents on horse and livestock equipment and veterinary medicine.
Each patent has individual pagination and front cover with original date, patent number, publication information and reprint date.
Ex-lib the Patent Library of Manchester Public Libraries. This volume is one of ten volumes of all Specifications of Patents granted in England on Farriery and the Veterinary Arts from the first in 1719 up to 1875. The system of classifying English Patents changed in 1875 from issuing under listed subject headings to a purely chronological system.
Purchased from Norman Comben, London bookseller; originally purchased from Manchester Public Libraries by Maurice Stroh in 1991 per article: McCue, Jim. "For sale: a patented history in the making." Times [London England] 8 June 1998: 10. TMVM
Machinery for making horse-shoes. 1875, 5th January
Controlling horses by electricity. 1875, 4th March
Rollers for horse-cloths. 1875, 17th March
Stopping runaway horses, &c. 1875, 19th June