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CollectionGB 0231 University of Aberdeen, Special Collections
LevelFile
Ref NoMS 2381/5
TitleDrawings of inventions
Datec.1836-1859
Extent2 files
DescriptionColour drawings of 54 inventions numbered on the reverse 1-61; Numbers 19, 20, 27, 32, 35, 47, 52 are missing.

Folder 1
No.1 – Food for the Starving People of Britain from America
No. 2 – Rettie’s Safety Boat Plug
No.3 – Yankee Cold Meat Box ‘The Second Hand Affair or American Cold Meat Chest'
No.4 – Cast Iron Roadway and Embankment for the Rain, Clyde at Glasgow

No.6 – Breakwater S.M Iron on the Return Hollow Pile System
No.7 – Rettie’s Iron Floating Landing Pier
No. 8 – Coal Pit Shaft
No. 9 – Safety Corve Hook for Mining
No. 10 – Cast Iron Safety Shield for Rettier’s Miner’s Lamp or ‘The Miner’s Friend’
No. 11 – A Goaf or Old Working (collieries) Rettie’s Improved Ventilator for Mines
No. 12 – Rettie’s Miner’s Safety Ventilating Self Acting Pit cover and Rettie’s Miner’s Safety Corve
No. 13 – Rettie’s Distress Signals for Steamers
No. 14 – Steamer or Vegetable Boiler
No. 15 – Heating, Ventilating and Sewerage apparatus
No. 16 – Le Pisonere or Fruit Basket
No. 17 – Rettie’s New Fighting Lamp for the Royal Navy
No. 18 – Rettie’s Distress Signals for Sailing Vessels

No. 21 – Rettie’s Wine or Ale Tap
No. 22 – Tidal Light for Piers and Harbours
No. 23 – The Real Smoke Preventer; Rettie’s Cinder Box without Dust or Waste
No. 24 – Rettie’s Metallic and Vegetable Brushes of All Kinds in Place of Bristles
No. 25 – Rettie’s Patent Holophotel
No. 26 – Hall Stoves, Hot Houses, Hot Water

No. 28 – Rettie’s Railway Telegraph for Day or Night
No. 29 – Illuminated Fruit Flowers
No. 30 – Preventing Collisions Lamp and Anchor Signal
No. 31 –Platelayer’s Signal Lamp to prevent Accidents (Railways)

No. 33 - Signal Pillar Telegraph
No. 34 – Rettie’s Patent Signal Lamp for Railways

No. 36 - Rettie’s Railway Signal Lamp for Hand Station or Engine
No. 37 – Rettie’s Patent Railway Signal Lamps For Railway Guards, Police or Station Men, Engine Men
No. 38 – Police Railway Lamp 1840


Folder 2
No. 39 - Double Signal Lamp for Station House on the Line
No. 40 – Rettie’s Invention for the Total Abolition of Children as Machines for the Sweeping of Chimnies in Great Britain
No. 41 – China Ventilation for Public and Private Buildings
No. 42 – Sewers (pipes) of fine clay glaze for water savings built with Lime Cement
No. 43 – New Heating, Ventilation and Sewerage Apparatus
No. 44 – Rettie’s Sanitary Improvements – self acting sewer traps; sink gratings
No. 45 – Sink Gratings; Portable Water Closets; Wash Hand Basins; Kitchen Sink Box
No. 46 – Sink trap; Rain Trap Nos 1,2 and 3

No. 48- Self Acting Sanitary Sewer Trap and Economic Warm Air Stove
No. 49 – Sewerage and Sanitary Invention - London Sewerage 1839
No. 50 - secret code of signals
No. 51 – The Steam Indicator

No. 53. – R.R Lamp
No. 54 – Lamp - Rettie’s application to useful purpose as well as ornament for public or private
No. 55 – Rettie’s Diurnal Advertiser
No. 56 – Communication device - shipping?
No. 57 – Rettie’s Block Machinery, a sanitary invention for London Sewerage
No. 58 – “A bone to pick with America – yes with beef upon it?”
No. 59 – Sewerage at the Marshes London 1849
No. 60 – Steam Gauge
No. 61 – A3 depiction of Diurnal Advertiser
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