Denny Lane Papers Descriptive List (Ref. U611)

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find that it carries out in a beautiful way with steam a theory of my own about water turbines’. Mentions Mr. Parsons ‘large incandescent lamps’ from 100 to 500 candlepower, mainly used in ships and some mills. Lane spent time in the Physical Laboratory in Cambridge where Professor J.J.Thompson showed him many electrical and other instruments, and they ‘got on like two pickpockets’. He is reading up to date at the Institute of Civil Engineers in London and spent some time at Messrs Edmundson, a branch of the Dublin firm. Mentions the high cost of work on private houses. He is ‘cramming like a boy for an examination’. 4pp 106 16 April 1886 Letter from Denny Lane, Craven Hotel, London, to Mr. J.O’Mahony, Cork Gas Company, Cork. ‘We had a five hour meeting of the Gas Council yesterday…’. Lane went to Hanrahan’s correspondents’ where he enquired if ‘the issue’ would be tried immediately, ‘…they said certainly not…’. Asks O’Mahony to send him the samples of Sulphate from Travers. 1p 107 [April 1886] Memorandum from Denny Lane, London to Mr. J.O’Mahony, Cork Gas Company, Cork. ‘I saw Mr Leo Wright this morning and he will write you before Saturday an offer for spent oxide’. Mainly concerns purchase of materials for Cork Gas Company. 4pp 108 18 April 1887 Memorandum from Denny Lane to Mr. J.O’Mahony, Cork Gas Company. ‘I have got letter for D O’Mahony to say that Mr Bradley called…’. Mentions Anderson’s apparatus to produce sulphate more cheaply. 1p 109 26 February [1888]

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