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Hefford's cypher telegraphy [n.d.] (Manuscript)
MER/98
Letter from Robert Scott to Allan Everett, H.M.S. DEFIANCE, Devonport, 13 April. (Manuscript)
MER/97
Private Signals (Manuscript)
MER/100
Robinson's secret signalling with ultra violet ray. 1914. (Manuscript)
1914 - 1914
MER/91
'Suggestions regarding Forming and Disposing Signals' by Flag Lieutenant Mark Kerr. 1890. (Manuscript)
1890 - 1890
MER/29
Envelope containing miscellaneous documents and reports on signal matter. (Manuscript)
1880 - 1904
MER/28
'A Systematic Scheme for Forming & Disposing and Stationing Signals' by Sub Lieutenant A. F. Everett. 1891. (Manuscript)
1891 - 1891
MER/30
Envelope containing various signal books, pamphlets, and letters. (Manuscript)
MER/25
General Signals (Manuscript)
MER/23
New Automatic Gas Light (Imperial Light). 1905. (Manuscript)
1905 - 1905
MER/110
Correspondence re. Sub Lieutenant C. P. Cotton-Stapleton's Invention for Night-Signalling at Sea. 1906. (Manuscript)
1906 - 1906
MER/105
Scheme for the Improvement of Night Signalling. 1896. (Manuscript)
1896 - 1896
MER/104
Scheme for the Improvement of the System of Night Signalling. (Manuscript)
MER/107
Night Flashing Signals. 1893 including letters about night flashing signals. (Manuscript)
1893 - 1893
MER/103
Report on trial of Imperial Light. 1905. (Manuscript)
1905 - 1905
MER/114
Edison & Swan. Flashing lamp. 1910. (Manuscript)
1910 - 1910
MER/78
Correspondence and papers re. Disc Signalling, including 'Handbook on Signalling by Means of Discs, Invented by Lieut.-Colonel B. R. Dietz' (1908) and 'Memorandum for Signalers who are detailed to carry the Signalling Disc'. (Manuscript)
1908 - 1908
MER/71
David Smith Wright's invention for ships to locate each other in a fog. 1913. (Manuscript)
1913 - 1913
MER/87
Electric signals & lighting of ships. 1911. (Manuscript)
1911 - 1911
MER/82
Correspondence re. Royland Tubb's proposal of coloured lights for signalling. 1906. (Manuscript)
1906 - 1906
MER/58
Correspondence re. Mr Liwentaal's cryptographic instruments. 1906-7. (Manuscript)
1906 - 1907
MER/60
Correspondence re. J. Wall's Bridge Signal Monitor Plates. 1906. (Manuscript)
1906 - 1906
MER/59
Reports and letters re. Flashing Lantern experiments carried out by Commander Everett and Lieutenant Robert Scott. (Manuscript)
1904 - 1919
MER/54
Day signals with vocabulary up until 294. Also with night and fog signal vocabulary. (Manuscript)
MER/20
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