George William Manby

English author and inventor

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Considerations on destructive fires, and the means of prevention in future / [George William Manby].
Manby, George William, 1765-1854Date: [1816]
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General report on the survey of the Eastern coast of England, for the purpose of carrying into effect and establishing the system for saving ship-wrecked persons / [By G.W. Manby].
Manby, George William, 1765-1854Date: 1813
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An address to the President ... and members, of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce : occasioned by the conduct of a committee of the Society. Together with a vindication of the author from an imputation ... that he had pirated his system of rescue from shipwreck on a lee-shore, from a previous plan of Lieut. Bell / [George William Manby].
Manby, George William, 1765-1854Date: 1816
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An address to the British public : with suggestions for the recovering property from sunken vessels; also, for the means for rescuing the lives of sailors from stranded vessels; and for the prevention of shipwreck; likewise, on the extinction and prevention of destructive fires; and for rescuing persons from houses enveloped in flames: and for saving from drowning persons who break through the ice. With a description and representation of apparatus used for those purposes, and instructions for their application / By G.W. Manby.
Manby, George William, 1765-1854.Date: 1838
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An essay on the preservation of shipwrecked persons : With a descriptive account of the apparatus, and the manner of applying it / [George William Manby].
Manby, George William, 1765-1854Date: 1812