Dr Percy and his metallurgical collection
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Feb 10, 2022
Abstract
John Percy died on 19 June 1889, so it seemed fitting in 1989 to attempt to piece together a short biography and to give at least an insight into the metallurgical collection which bears bis name.
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Royal Society Catalogue, X, J Percy
Mrs A Crosse, A Many-sided Man, Temple Bar, 1890, 89, pps 354-374
C A H Crosse, Red Letter Days of my Life, 1892
M Reeks, Register and History of the Royal School of Mines, 1920
Obituary notice, Birmingham Post, 21 June 1889
Reports of Queen's College and Queen's Hospital and information from Birmingham University Library
Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, 1, 1845, pps 202-207. Appendix to a paper by Lyell, letter from Percy to Lyell
From archives of Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
From archives of University College Library, London. (Ref Correspondence - Percy, J and AM 47/48, GRANT)
From the archives of the British Geological Survey, (Ref Letters, GSM1/6p 49-73, 79 and 82)
M H Port, (Ed), The Houses of Parliament, 1976
J of Iron & Steel Institute, 1885 pps 8-54, 1886 pps 8-32 and 1886 pps 441-462
Introduction to re-print edition of Percy's Metallurgy vol I
Report of the Royal School of Mines 1, 1852, p146
From Minutes of the Council of Mason's College 3 July and 4 September 1889 and subsequent letter to Percy' s solicitors. Information from Birmingham University Library
J F Blake, Catalogue of the Collection of Metallurgical Specimens formed by the late John Percy, 1892
J Iron & Steel Institute, 1885, p51
J Percy, J Iron & Steel, 1864, pps 325 and 766 and American Journal of Science, 21, 1856, pps 254-256
Catalogue of the Percy Collection, decription of specimen 2397
A Dick, On the preparation of Aluminium from Kryolite (sie) Philosophical Magazine, Series 4, 10, 1855-56, pps 364-5
L G Thompson, Sidney Gilchrist Thomas, an invention and its consequences, 1940
R B Gordon, The Metallurgical Museum of Yale College and Nineteenth Century Ferrous Metallurgy in New England, Journal of Metals, 34 (7), 1982
Mrs A Crosse, A Many-sided Man, Temple Bar, 1890, 89, pps 354-374
C A H Crosse, Red Letter Days of my Life, 1892
M Reeks, Register and History of the Royal School of Mines, 1920
Obituary notice, Birmingham Post, 21 June 1889
Reports of Queen's College and Queen's Hospital and information from Birmingham University Library
Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London, 1, 1845, pps 202-207. Appendix to a paper by Lyell, letter from Percy to Lyell
From archives of Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine
From archives of University College Library, London. (Ref Correspondence - Percy, J and AM 47/48, GRANT)
From the archives of the British Geological Survey, (Ref Letters, GSM1/6p 49-73, 79 and 82)
M H Port, (Ed), The Houses of Parliament, 1976
J of Iron & Steel Institute, 1885 pps 8-54, 1886 pps 8-32 and 1886 pps 441-462
Introduction to re-print edition of Percy's Metallurgy vol I
Report of the Royal School of Mines 1, 1852, p146
From Minutes of the Council of Mason's College 3 July and 4 September 1889 and subsequent letter to Percy' s solicitors. Information from Birmingham University Library
J F Blake, Catalogue of the Collection of Metallurgical Specimens formed by the late John Percy, 1892
J Iron & Steel Institute, 1885, p51
J Percy, J Iron & Steel, 1864, pps 325 and 766 and American Journal of Science, 21, 1856, pps 254-256
Catalogue of the Percy Collection, decription of specimen 2397
A Dick, On the preparation of Aluminium from Kryolite (sie) Philosophical Magazine, Series 4, 10, 1855-56, pps 364-5
L G Thompson, Sidney Gilchrist Thomas, an invention and its consequences, 1940
R B Gordon, The Metallurgical Museum of Yale College and Nineteenth Century Ferrous Metallurgy in New England, Journal of Metals, 34 (7), 1982
How to Cite
Cackett, S. (2022). Dr Percy and his metallurgical collection. Historical Metallurgy, 23(2), 92-98. https://hmsjournal.org/index.php/home/article/view/601
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Cackett, S. (2022). Dr Percy and his metallurgical collection. Historical Metallurgy, 23(2), 92-98. https://hmsjournal.org/index.php/home/article/view/601