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Dionysius Lardner Signed Handwritten Manuscript

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Dionysius Lardner Signed Handwritten Manuscript

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Auction Date:2020 Dec 09 @ 18:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:15th Floor WeWork, Boston, Massachusetts, 02108, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Handwritten syllabus for a course of lectures by Lardner, eleven pages, 7.25 x 9, signed in the third-person within the heading: "Outline of a course of Six Lectures on the Steam-engine as applied to Manufactures, Navigation and Railway transport, illustrated by working…models and other experimental apparatus. To be delivered to the Members of the Liverpool Mechanics Institution by Dionysius Lardner LL.D., F.R.S. on the evenings of Wednesdays and Saturdays at 8 o'clock precisely commencing on Wednesday 22nd November 1837." The manuscript presents a detailed listing of the topics to be covered in his lectures, ranging from the creation of steam, to the workings of pistons within the engine, to areas that could be serviced by railways and locomotives. In fine condition.