Scope and Contents
Includes images of steam engines and other machinery built by Mather & Pratt during the late 19th century. Includes images of a turbine pump, dynamos, a boring machine, diagonal steam engines, a printing machine, and other machinery.
Dates
- 1874-1885
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Conditions Governing Access
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Conditions Governing Use
This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and Procedures for Document Use.
Biographical / Historical
Mather & Platt of Manchester, England, was formed in 1853 by the merger of two machinery building companies, one begun by Pete Mather in 1817 and the other, Salford Iron Works, begun by John and Thomas Sherratt in 1829 and later taken over by John Platt. Mather & Platt made textile machinery, steam engines, turbine pumps, dynamos, and other machinery.
Extent
1 folders
Abstract
Images of machinery made by Mather and Pratt in the late 19th century.
Quantity:
1 file folder
Forms of Material:
Graphics.
General
- Contact Information:
- Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives Martin P. Catherwood Library 227 Ives Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3183> kheel_center@cornell.edu http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/kheel-center
- Compiled by:
- R. Miles, October 11, 2017
- EAD encoding:
- Randall Miles, November 30, 2017
- Title
- Mather & Platt Graphics
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by R. Miles
- Date
- November 30, 2017
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Revision Statements
- 02/23/2024: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)
Repository Details
Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository
227 Ives Hall
Ithaca NY 14853