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| RH4/199 | Bills, accounts, correspondence and other papers concerning Sir William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) (1824-1907), theoretical and experimental physicist. | 1846-1879 |
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Country code |
GB |
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Repository code |
234 |
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Repository |
National Records of Scotland |
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Reference |
RH4/199/4 |
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Title |
Bills, accounts, correspondence and other papers concerning Sir William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) (1824-1907), theoretical and experimental physicist. |
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Dates |
1856-1879 |
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Access status |
Restricted |
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Access conditions |
The records listed in this collection are not in NRS. They are held privately in the Department of Natural Philosophy, Glasgow University. Access in NRS is to microfilm copy only. Permission must be sought of the owner before copying, publication or quotation. All enquiries should be addressed to: The Registrar, National Register of Archives for Scotland, HM General Register House, Edinburgh EH13YY. |
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Location |
Off site |
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Description |
Bundle 28 (continued from RH4/199/3)
24. 1873 Feb 15
Strutford & Wark, cane and fancy chair manufacturers, steam factory, 108 John St, Glasgow. 3 splat window chairs.
25. 1873 Jan 10
The Gutta Percha Company, Wharf Road, City Rd, London. 440 yars of no.7 telegraph wire.
26. 1870 Dec 7-1872 Jan 15
Wallace & Connell, plumbers, lead merchants and brassfounders, 42 St Enoch Square, Glasgow. Various metal fittings including wooden box lined with lead and lead divisions.
27. 1872 Oct 12-1873 Jan 16
John Rough & Sons, cabinet makers, upholsterers and joiners, 27 Findlay St, Glasgow. Making hoistway in tower at Glasgow University.
28. 1873 Mar 24
J & T Boyd, engineers and machine makers, Nassau Works, Bishop St, Glasgow. Model air engine.
29. 1873 Mar 28
John Tatlock. One year's salary.
Bundle 29
1. 1874 Mar 28
John Tatlock. One year's salary.
2. 1874 Jan 4
James Miller, general furnishing ironmonger, 70 & 71 Princes St, Edinburgh. Making tin apparatus.
3. 1874 Feb 12
Thornton, Currie & Company, 43, 45 47 Jamaica St, Glasgow, and Caledonian Rubber Works, Dalry Road, Edinburgh. 1 piece of rubber.
4. 1873 Feb 28-Dec 5
H L Anderson & C Carlton, house painters, decorators and gilders, 141 St Vincent St, Glasgow. Copal varnish.
5. 1874 Nov 3-Dec 22
Duncan Campbell & Son, stationers, 96 St Vincent St, Glasgow. Envelopes and ink.
6. 1873 Dec 3-1874 Jan 15
George Mason & Co, successors to John Spencer, 39 Union St, Glasgow. Hydrochloric acid. Other goods (unspecified).
7. 1873 Dec 27
Wallace & Connell, plumbers, lead merchants and brassfounders, 38 St Enoch Square, Glasgow. 1 lead weight with iron eye.
8. 1874 Jan 15-22
New Apothecaries Company, 57 & 59 Glassford St, Glasgow. Sodium sulphate, sodium acetate, sodium thiosulphate.
9. 1873 Apr 12-1874 Apr 4
W A Smith & Hamilton, engineers and lithographers, 57 West Nile St, Glasgow. Lithographing examination papers.
10. 1874 Apr 4
Charles Tennant & Co, 115 St Vincent St, Glasgow. 1 cask of foreign sulphate of zinc.
11. 1874 Feb 2
W & M Scott, Tranmere Foundry, Birkenhead. 6 bars, 6 balls.
12. 1873 Dec
H L Anderson & C Carlton, house painters, decorators and gilders. Staining and varnishing Sir William Thomson's rooms.
13. 1873 Jul 1-1874 Mar 27
Duncan Campbell & Son, stationers, 96 St Vincent St, Glasgow. Ink, envelopes and paper.
14. 1874 Apr 23
Blacklock, Goudie & Co, waterproof and india rubber manufacturers, 69 Jamaica St, Glasgow. 1 India rubber sheet.
15. 1874 Jan 15-Apr 29
Duncan Campbell & Son. Ink, pen rack, envelopes and paper.
16. 1874 Oct 30
John Dobie, cutlery, saw, ege tool, plane and file warehouse, mathematical instruments, 205 Argyle St, Glasgow. Awls, chisels, files, pliers, screw driver.
17. 1872 Oct 23
James Gilchrist, manufacturer of house, railway and turret clocks, ship levers, engine counters, telegraphs etc, 13 Exchange Place, Glasgow. Cleaning 8 day clock in lecture room and altering striking.
18. 1874 Oct 19
Angus M'Coll, wright and glazier, 46 Park Road, Glasgow. 6 rollers.
19. 1874 Apr 28
Webster and Horsfall, sole manufacturers of the homogenous wire for the Atlantic telegraph cables of 1865 and 1866, Bromsgrove St, Birmingham. 20 lbs no.12 1/2 patent steel music wire. (See also bundle 29 items 25-26)
20. 1874 Dec 21
John Young, paraffin lamp and oil manufacturer, Forth St, Port Dundas. 5 gallons of photogene oil.
21. 1874 Nov 1-Dec 9
Robert Malcolm. Miscellaneous items 'for the laboratory' including 4 brass hooks, and 1 lb of powder for rifle.
22. 1874 Nov 11
John Tennant, 363 Argyle St, Glasgow. Copper sulphate.
23. 1874 Nov 27
John M'Pherson, joiner and glazier, 6 Wilson St, Glasgow. Making box for electrical apparatus.
24. 1874 Dec 9
Andrew B Hood, ironmonger and plumber, 172 St George's Road, Glasgow. 2 small cans, soldering in bolt for bracket.
25-26.
Webster & Horsfall. Invoice and note concerning steel wire (see bundle 29 item 19).
Bundle 30
1. 1875 Jan 12
Joseph Turnbull, Cranstonhill Turning Works and Saw Mills, Elliot St and Havelock St, Glasgow. 1 bobbin.
2. 1874 Nov 4
D Mackenzie. Miscellaneous items including matches, bobbins, casks and blotting paper.
3. 1875 Feb 5
A C Russell, stationer, drawing material warehouse, 188 Trongate, Glasgow. Drawing paper and colours, drawing instruments including bow pen, T squares, dividers.
4. 1875 Feb 25
John Rough & Sons, cabinetmakers, upholsterers & joiners, 27 Findlay St, Glasgow. Sounding box, drawing boards, large table, chest of drawers.
5. 1874 Apr 11-1875 Apr
W A Smith & Hamilton, enfgravers and lithographers, 57 West Nile St, Glasgow. Lithographing examination papers.
6. 1874 May 8-1875 Apr 15
James White, optician, mathematical and philosophical instrument maker, 78 Union St, Glasgow. Various materials and apparatus. Repairs to apparatus including sliding condenser, and supplying mirror with frame for large galvanometer.
7. 1876 Mar 21
Charles Tennant & Co, 115 Vincent St, Glasgow. 1 cask of copper sulphate.
8-10. 1875 Oct 12
'The Glasgow News', 'The North British Daily Mail', 'The Glasgow Herald'. Advertising course of lectures to medical students.
11. 1875 Nov 25
D M'Callum, Senior & Co, 72 Renfield St, Glasgow. 1 wool strip.
12. 1875 Dec 2
Peter Robertson, North British India Rubber Warehouse, 32 Queen St, Glasgow. Lead wire.
13-14. 1873 Nov 13-1874 Aug 19
D & G Graham, bell hangers, gas fitters etc, inventors and patentees of improved indicators, patentees and manufacturers of Sir William Thomson's signalling studs and batteries for bell purposes, 141 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow. Battery cells, repairing electric bells in natural philosophy department, repairing clock alarm including new contact.
15. 1875 Nov 29
Charles Tennant & Co, 115 St Vincent St, Glasgow. 1 cask of Roman vitriol.
16. 1875 Apr
John Perry. Details of expenses in London, including reference to purchase from Ladd of spiral spring for tide machine.
Bundle 31
1. 1875 Nov 6
Maclehose & Macdougall, University and General Steam Printing Works, 153 West Nile St, Glasgow. Printing 300 copies of resume of course of natural philosophy for medical students.
2. 1876 Feb 13
James Couper & Sons, City Flint Glass Works, Glasgow. 25 glass jars, 18 glass covers, silver sand.
3. 1876 Jan 13
New Apothecaries Company, 57 & 59 Glassford St, Glasgow. Chlorate of potash.
4. 1875 Oct 27
'Glasgow News'. Advertising classes.
5. 1875 Dec 21
Angus M'Coll, wright and glazier, 46 Park Road, Glasgow. Curved and grooved piece of pitch pine.
6. 1876 Feb 2
James Lawson (successor to Alexander Hunter) gun maker, cutler and ironmonger, fishing rod and tackle manufacturer, 70 Argyle St, Glasgow. 1 cast iron bullet having strong screw eye fitted and 1 forged handle.
7. 1876 Mar 15
New Apothecaries Company, 57 & 59 Glassford St, Glasgow. 1 bottle of carbon disulphide.
8. 1875 Mar 3-1876 Jan 11
John Rough & Sons, cabinetmakers, upholsterers and joiners, 27 Findlay St, Glasgow. Repairing ladders, wood for apparatus.
9. 1876 Mar 23, 31
Peter Robertson, North British India Rubber Warehouse, 32 Queen St, Glasgow. Rubber tubing, can of [rubber] solution, lead wire.
10. 1876 Mar 23
James Lawson. Large bullet moulds.
11. 1876 Jan 26-Mar 29
Abstract of laboratory accounts.
12. 187[5] Nov 13-1876 Apr 15
W A Smith & Hamilton, engravers and lithographers, 57 West Nile St, Glasgow. Printing examination papers.
13. 1875 Sep 22-1876 Mar 15
James White, optician, mathematical and philosophical instrument maker, 78 Union St, Glasgow. Miscellaneous apparatus, and repairs to apparatus including Stirling's air engine and absolute electrometer.
14. 1876 Jul 21
R Malcolm. Wages and travel expenses.
15. 1876 May 5
Thornton Currie & Co, manufacturers of india rubber and vulcanite goods etc, 43, 45, 47 Jamaica St, Glasgow. 12 finger stalls, 1' of gutta percha tubing.
16. 1876 May 5-9
The same. 7 finger stalls.
17. 1876 Sep 4
Charles Tennant & Co, 115 St Vincent St, Glasgow. 1 cask of copper sulphate.
18. 1876 Dec 1
Barton, Henderson & Co, hemp and wire rope and sailmakers etc. 153 Scotland St, and 58 & 60 Broomielaw, Glasgow. 40 fathoms of fine manila rope.
19. 1876 Mar 30-Oct 11
Robert Maclehose, printer to the University, 153 West Nile St, Glasgow. Notices of natural philosophy course for medical students.
20. 1876 Dec 14
James Lawson (successor to Alexander Hunter) gun maker, cutler, and ironmonger, 70 Argyle St, Glasgow. 1 pan eyelet and 1 punch.
21. 1875 Dec 6
James Coupar and Sons, City Flint Glass Works, Glasgow. 1 cylinder.
22. 1876 Mar 17-Oct 7
John Rough & Sons, cabinetmakers, upholsterers and joiners, 27 Findlay St, Glasgow. Woodwork for apparatus and laboratory including box for compass.
Bundle 32
1. 1876 Sep 4-Dec 14
Peter Robertson, North British India rubber warehouse, 32 Queen St, Glasgow. Lead wire, india rubber sheet.
2. 1876 Nov 23
James Macarthur & Co, 82 Glassford St, Glasgow. Paper.
3. 1877 Feb 6
Russell's, drawing material and stationery warehouse, 188 Trongate, Glasgow. 20 yards of web.
4. 1876 Mar 31
Glasgow Apothecaries Company, 32 & 34 Virginia St, Glasgow. 7 lbs of German glycerine.
5. 1877 Feb 20
George Mason & Co, successors to John Spencer, 39 Union St, Glasgow. 4 beakers.
6. 1877 Jan 24-Feb 7
James Lawson (successor to Alexander Hunter) gun maker, cutler, and ironmonger, 70 Argyle St, Glasgow. Cut copper tacks, punch bit, brass screw nails, brass screws, hand vices.
7. 1877 Mar 2
Stuart Spence, wholesale stationer and manufacturer, 49 Virginia St, Glasgow. Foolscap paper.
8. 1877 Feb 17
John Young, paraffin lamp manufacturer, Forth St, Port Dundas. 6 gallons of photogene oil.
9. 1876 Nov 28
James McHaffie & Co, manufacturing tinsmiths, gas fitters, and packing case makers, 47 Cathedral St, Glasgow. Tin plates, sheet zinc.
10. 1876 Sep 4
Peter Robertson, North British India Rubber Warehouse, 32 Queen St, Glasgow. Lead wire.
11. 1876 Oct 24
W A Smith & Hamilton, engravers and lithographers, 57 West Nile St, Glasgow. Lithographing 500 [examination] papers.
12. 1876 Nov 28
The same. Lithographing 500 attendance lists.
13. 1876 May 13
James Rough & Sons, cabinetmakers, upholsterers and joiners, 27 Findlay St, Glasgow. Packing cases.
14. 1876 Dec 6-1877 Jan 17
The same. Laboratory furniture and miscellaneous equipment incluing model mountain and stand for magnet.
15. 1876 Oct 30-Nov 17
Duncan Campbell & Son, manufacturing stationers, 96 St Vincent St, Glasgow. Paper and papyrograph pad and frame.
16. 1876 Apr 6-1877 Mar 14
James White, optician, mathematical and philosophical instrument maker, 241 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow. Repairs to apparatus including lathe, and apparatus for gun barrel experiments.
17. 1876 Mar 31-1877 Nov 31
Robert Malcolm. Wages.
18. 1877 Dec 7
Glasgow Apothecaries Company. Ammonia, ether, turpentine.
19. 1877
British Association for the Advancement of Science. Statement of grant made at the Glasgow meeting of 1876.
Bundle 33
1. 1877 Feb 2-Aug
John Rough & Sons, cabinetmakers, upholsterers and joiners, 27 Findlay St, Glasgow. Woodwork for apparatus including stand with wheels for compass.
2. 1878 Mar 28
John A Mann, artiste, machinist, musical instrument maker, and scientific redintegrator of Cremona and other valuable violins, 15 Bath St & 124 West Nile St, Glasgow. 2 double base, 2 boxes of resin.
3. 1878 Mar 9
Charles Tennant & Co, 115 St Vincent St, Glasgow. 1 barrel of copper sulphate.
4. 1877 Jan 23-1878 Mar 21
James White, optician, mathematical and philosophical instrument maker, 241 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow. Repairs to apparatus including electric motive engine. Supplying various materials including a tin of lime cylinders and 40 feet of piano wire.
5. 1878 Mar 29
John Rough & Sons, cabinetmakers, upholsterers and joiners, 27 Findlay St, Glasgow. Goods or work (unspecified).
6. Nd
W A Smith & Hamilton, engravers and lithographers, 57 West Nile St, Glasgow. Lithographic ink, lithographic stone, Water of Ayr stone.
7. 1878 May 3
Andrew Galloway. Goods or work (unspecified).
8. Nd
Details of government grant to Sir William Thomson for magnetic experiments.
Bundle 34
1. 1878 Nov 16-1879 Feb 3
John Rough & Sons, cabinetmakers, upholsterers and joiners, 27 Findlay St, Glasgow. Repairing furniture and fittings in Sir William Thomson's residence.
2. 1879 Jan 10-23
P & W MacLellan, iron and steel merchants, 129 Trongate and Clutha Works, Glasgow. Iron rope pulley blocks.
3. 1879 Jun 30-Oct 31
James White, optician, mathematical and philosophical instrument maker, 241 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow. Mercurial pressure gauge.
Bundle 35
1. Nd
Richard Wilson, wholesale stationer and bookseller, 43 Candleriggs St, Glasgow. 2 sheets of Bristol board, 2 panes of glass.
2. 18[] Feb 28
Elliot Brothers, successors to Watkins & Hill, philosophical instrument makers, 449 Strand, London. Goods (unspecified).
3. Nd
Professor Selwyn, A Yuill, Baxter & Son, Max Gregor. Goods or services (unspecified).
4. Nd
Daniel Halloran. Twine and towels.
5. Nd
White, J Tennant, Apothecaries, C Tennant. Goods or services (unspecified).
6. Nd
Tennant, Bryce, Forrester, Walker, Leuchars, Neil. Goods or services (unspecified).
7. [] Jan 21
Varnished cards, pieces of plate glass.
8. [] Nov-Dec
Diagram paper, ink, balloons, carriage of air pump, an iron chain from McLellan.
9. [c1856]
Details of the finances of the [Australian] estates of Cherry Hinton, Melbourne, Bottisham, Meldrett, and Fitzwilliams belonging to [Robert Thomson].
Bundle 36 - not filmed |
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Extent |
1 reel microfilm |
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Originals |
Originals held by the Department of Natural Philosophy, Glasgow University. |
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