Manchester Scientific and Mechanical Society
1870 the Society was founded; Evan Leigh was one of the founders.
1871 The meeting will take place in Manchester early in January. The members of the Manchester Scientific and Mechanical Society held their fortnightly meeting on Thursday evening[1]
1872 ".. meeting of the above society, a resolution was unanimously passed that a special committee be appointed to take into consideration the society's future programme, and to make the necessary ..."[2]
1872 The fifth meeting of the session of the above was held on Wednesday evening last, the 2nd inst., at the Trevelyan Hotel, the Vice-President in the chair.[3]
1873 Huntly Express 1873: In connection with the fuel question, the writer of a paper which has just been read before the Manchester Scientific and Mechanical Society, strongly advocated a trial of bringing peat into the market. Its resources (he said) were almost, if not ...[4]
1874 At a recent meeting of the Manchester Scientific and Mechanical Society, Mr. C. S. Allen, C.E., gave a description of the Hull Waterworks, consisting of a powerful pumping station at Springhead, supplying between 8,000,00 and ...[5]
1875 Evan Leigh was elected President of the Manchester Scientific and Mechanical Society
1876 MANCHESTER SCIENTIFIC AND MECHANICAL SOCIETY. "The members of the Manchester Scientific and Mechanical Society entertained their friends at conversazione at the Town Hall on Friday night There was a large and ..."[6]
1876 The members of the Manchester Scientific and Mechanical Society paid a visit to the Standard Iron and Steel Works Company (formerly Bolckow, Vaughan, and Co.), Gorton, to inspect a new process for making iron and steel.
1877 MANCHESTER SCIENTIFIC AND MECHANICAL SOCIETY. Wednesday meeting of the Manchester Scientific and Mechanical Society, at the rooms, 88, Mosley-street in this city, a paper was read by Mr. C. G. Corbett on trades unionism. The author went a little out of the usual course in his remarks, ...[7][8]
1879 An improved system of tramways was described in a paper read before the members of the Manchester Scientific and Mechanical Society at their last meeting, by Mr W. Telford Gunson, C.E. The new system consists in laying down continuous length ...[9]
1881 At the meeting of the above-named society, held in Manchester recently, Mr. J. Kershaw, jun., read a paper on Machine Tools: in reference to the Planing Machine. ...[10]
1881 COLLAPSE OF A LEARNED SOCIETY. I am very sorry to note that, in spite of the recent vigorous effort to the contrary, the Manchester Scientific and Mechanical Society is now no more. The resolution to ...[11]
See Also
Sources of Information
- ↑ Manchester Evening News 30 December 1871
- ↑ Manchester Times 28 September 1872
- ↑ Manchester Evening News 05 October 1872
- ↑ Huntly Express 26 March 1943
- ↑ Runcorn Examiner 04 April 1874
- ↑ Manchester Courier 24 January 1876
- ↑ Manchester Courier 16 November 1877
- ↑ Midland & Northern Coal & Iron Trades Gazette 21 November 1877
- ↑ Dundee Courier 26 November 1879
- ↑ Midland & Northern Coal & Iron Trades Gazette 23 March 1881
- ↑ Midland & Northern Coal & Iron Trades Gazette 11 May 1881