User:Xpctr8

TODO List

 * Layout/Polish on The History of British Commerce
 * Guidance on annotations and linking in Hist. Brit. Com. (Specifically, people and events referenced, linking to sources or WP articles. Link in text? Annotation box floating right?)
 * Application of on citations
 * Fix two problematic pages in source file for Index:A_History_of_Mathematics_(1893).djvu, complete proofreading.
 * Clean pages available at archive.org

Current Projects

 * Index:Account of John Harrison and his chronometer.djvu - Manuscript
 * Index:Twelve_Years_in_a_Monastery_(1897).djvu - Already created/proofread, but pages not marked as such.

Past Projects

 * The History of British Commerce/Volume 1 (1844)
 * The History of British Commerce/Volume 2 (1844)
 * The Address of the People of South Carolina assembled in Convention, to the People of the Slaveholding States of the United States (1861)
 * Memoirs of a Trait in the Character of George III. of these United Kingdoms (1835)
 * A Practical Treatise on Brewing (1849)
 * Method of Finding the Longitude (1823)
 * A Mainsail Haul (1905/13) - Mainly images and publishing to mainspace, User:R. J. Mathar did the bulk of the proofreading in 2015
 * Ten nights in a bar-room and what I saw there

Future Projects

 * Index:Craik_History_of_British_Commerce_Vol_3.djvu
 * Political Poems and Songs Related to English History - Includes the "Libel of English Policy", referenced several times in Hist. Brit. Com.
 * Uploaded to IA from Google scans, for djvu conversion: Volume 1 and Volume 2
 * Guidance needed on how (or whether) to bring to WS. The bulk of the poems in each volume are in Latin...inappropriate? Transcribe only English language works here?
 * Macpherson, Annals of Commerce - 4 vols @ ~700pp each
 * Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods - Fantasy field guide (US, 1910)
 * American Brewer's Review - Late 19th/Early 20th c. industry journal; industry statistics, lots of pre-prohibition historical content/opinons.
 * Nineteen Centuries of Drink in England - 1884
 * Journal of the South Carolina Secession Convention (1860-62)
 * Mann, Franklin, The Bullet's Flight from Powder to Target. (1909)
 * Extensive tables needed: Index:Dawson_-_Australian_aborigines_(1900).djvu

Portal: Longitude
Creation of a new portal around works related to the Board of Longitude. Works to include:
 * Memoirs of a Trait in the Character of George III. of these United Kingdoms
 * Baylee, John Tyrell; Method of Finding the Longitude (1823)
 * Acts of Parliament setting up and affecting the board:
 * Act of 12 Queen Anne setting up the Board in 1714 ("Discovery of Longitude at Sea Act")
 * Various documents from the Board
 * Start at Cambridge Digital Library index of Board of Longitude
 * Papers relating to "the great clock" (Big Ben?) at Westminster, Appendix No. 5 referencing Harrison
 * Abstracts of Papers Printed by the Royal Society (Phil. Trans.), numerous references
 * Address of M. Hoene Wronski, to the British Board of Longitude - Presentation of a celestial solution, tr. from French (1820)
 * An Account of the Going of Mr. John Harrison's Watch - Worldcat link, apparently no scan online
 * Bio of John Harrison by the Worshipful Company of Clock Makers, see p. 177-81