Beyond Scotland - Dorset

Records:

  • A01005 - Du Buisson's Patent, 1845

    Du Buisson's Patent

    Download full document 215336, page 327

    EXCERPTS from SPECIFICATION (1845, No. 10,726) of Michel Antoine Bertin Burin Du Buisson, for Furnace Apparatus, and Processes of the Di…

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  • A01006 - Weymouth Schiste Advertisements, 1850

    IMPORTANT TO AGRICULTURALISTS

    CARBONACEOUS and AMMONIACAL MANURE

    £3 per Ton at the Works Weymouth, superior to guano and all other animalised earthy fossil saline or compost manures.

    The manufactory at …

    Source: The Railway Times. - Read more
  • A01007 - Bituminous Shale Co. Advertisements, 1850

    Bituminous Shale Co. Advertisements

    Excellent Manure

    MR. A. R. MARTIN, of the North Wales Chronicle Office Castle-street, Bangor, begs to announce to Land Owners, Gentlemen, and Tenant-farmers, that he…

    Source: The North Wales Chronicle. - Read more
  • A01009 - Winding up of the Bituminous Shale Co., 1854

    Winding up of the Bituminous Shale Co.

    Tuesday March 7

    The Bituminous Shale Company v Cassell re the Joint Stock Companies Winding up Acts 1848 and 1849 and The Bituminous Shale Company ex parte Green

    P…

    Source: The Law Times, vol.22 no. 571. 1854.. - Read more
  • A01012 - Binney & Co. v. Clydesdale Chemical Co., 1860

    Binney & Co. v. Clydesdale Chemical Co.

    Selected extracts relating to oil operations in Dorset.

    Report of Jury Trial

    Tried before the Lord President and Jury, Edinburgh, November 1860.

    Evidence for t…

    Source: Trial before the Lord President and Jury, Edinburgh.. - Read more
  • A01016 - New Hydro Carbon Oil from Petroleum, 1863

    New Hydro Carbon Oil from Petroleum

    Correspondence

    To the Editor of the Sanitary Reporter

    Sir

    I have read your first number and from the character it appears to assume I think it may become a very conven…

    Source: The Sanitary Reporter, 10th July 1863. - Read more
  • A01092 - The Geology of the Isle of Purbeck, 1898

    The Geology of the Isle of Purbeck

    MEMOIRS OF GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ENGLAND AND WALES, 1898, xi 278.

    The Geology of the Isle of Purbeck and Weymouth. By A. Strachan.

    Page 53.

    The so-called 'coal'…

    Source: The Geology of the Isle of Purbeck and Weymouth. By A. Strachan. - Read more
  • A01084 - Dorset - Miscellaneous references, 1822

    Oil.—Messrs. Jesty & Baker, of Portland, have commenced a shaft in the oil shale at the back of H.M. Dockyard. It is understood that the operations are being conducted on behalf of the Shell Oil …

    Source: Various. - Read more