2ème Mémoire Sur la production de la fonte dans le sud du pays de Galles

Name of traveller

*Henri Peslin (b. 1836)

Reason for travel

• industrial study

Date of travel

1857

Content

• art: contains technical drawings of industrial machinery and a hand-drawn geological map of Glamorgan
• industry:
  • description of coal mining and metallurgical industries in south Wales
  • draws comparisons with industrial production in Belgium and England
• terrain: description of geological properties and particularities of south Wales
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Nationality of traveller

French

Language of publication

French

Gender of traveller

Male

Type of publication

scientific study; travelogue

Citation

*Peslin, Henri. 2ème Mémoire Sur la production de la fonte dans le sud du pays de Galles. 1857. MS M 1857 (633), Journaux et mémoires de voyage de MM. les Élèves. Bibliothèque patrimoniale numérique de l’École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris (Mines ParisTech), Paris. MS.