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Illustrated Polytechnic Review, Nos. 1-12
RPI/7/5 · Item · 7 Jan-25 Mar 1843
Part of Royal Polytechnic Institution
Bound Volume of the Illustrated Polytechnic Review, Nos. 1-12, 7 January - 25 March 1843. References to the RPI in text as follows: page 4 and 24 (meteorological instruments); pages 40, 52-3, and 59 (Directors of Royal Polytechnic Institution and projected Art-Union); pages 80-1 (anemometer reading); pages 81-2, 96 (machinery for carding cotton); page 97 (dissolving views); page 111 (diving apparatus); page 126 (exhibition of optical instruments); page 129 (hydraulic machines); page 145 (magnetic machine); page 171 (fountains, Great Hall). Attendance figures for week after Christmas given on p38.
References also given to RPI in advertisements throughout.
The Building News: The Accident at the Polytechnic Institution
RPI/7/27 · Item · 28 Jan 1859
Part of Royal Polytechnic Institution

'[Architect] Mr [Christopher] Eales' Report of the Accident at the Polytechnic Instituion to Thomas Waklet, Esq, Coroner for Middlesex, and the Gentlemen forming the Jury, 18 January 1859'.

The article is an architectural report on the principal staircase of the Polytechnic Institution following an accident on 3 Jan 1859 in which Emma Pike, aged 10 was killed when the staircase leading down from the balcony collapsed. It gives a detailed description of the staircase including plans and sections.