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THORNEYCROFT, Father and Son, Patents and Inventions, etc. 1891, 8vo vol. in modern half calf containing 124 mounted albumen prints, verses and descriptions of inventions, some in use at Tettenhall Towers, Wolverhampton, his home, the volume privately printed for circulation for relatives and friends. Among the inventions were a fireplace with water driven bellows, boot warming apparatus, a 44 foot waterfall in the theatre end of the hall which also can be illuminated and used to cool the air during a ball, also various patent carriages and reproductions of drawings. The book also contains chapters on Sports and Pastimes etc at Tettenhall Towers, articles from periodicals i.e., The Heroes of Alicante Spain 1709, Lieut Colonel Thorneycroft, Colonel Thorneycroft's visit to Spain, and The Closing of The Thornycroft Ironworks.

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