Vol. IX Entitled 'Memorandum relating to powder and its component Parts'; 1782 Gunpowder: Notes by G. Napier on saltpetre and composition of gunpowder: 1782.
NAPIER PAPERS. Vols. X-XII. Notes on experiments on gunpowder carried out at Purfleet with the dates of the receipt from named manufacturers of each batch tested, and daily notes of weather; 1782-1783. Reversing the first volume (49095, ff. 38b-37b) are notes in another hand on the proportions of ingredients used in various countries for the most powerful kinds of gunpowder, with further notes on the quantity held in each of the magazines at Purfleet, Tilbury Fort and Gravesend Blockhouse an...
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Gunpowder: Note-books of G. Napier rel. to experiments in its manufacture, etc.,: 1782, 1783.
Vol. I (ff. 132). 1777-Oct. 1782. Ordnance: Official correspondence, etc., of G. Napier, mostly as Comptroller of Royal Laboratory, Woolwich in 1782 and 1783: 1777-1783, n.d.: Partly Fr. includes: ff. 8, 37-39b, 56 Captain Samuel Tovey, RA; Chief Firemaster, Royal Laboratory, Woolwich: Memo...
Vol. II (ff. 108). Nov. 1782-Apr. 1783, n.d. Ordnance: Official correspondence, etc., of G. Napier, mostly as Comptroller of Royal Laboratory, Woolwich in 1782 and 1783: 1777-1783, n.d.: Partly Fr. includes: f. 1 Thomas Watkins, formerly Master Cooper, Office of Ordnance, Minorca: Letter to...