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[[Griffith Brewer]]; [[Patrick Young Alexander]]. 1893. ''Aeronautics: An abridgment of aeronautical specifications filed at the patent office from A.D. 1815 to A.D. 1891''. London; republished 1965 by Boekhandel en Antiquariaat, Amsterdam.

This book has summaries of British aeronautical patents from 1815-1891.  

Patents in this book can be treated as relevant to aeronautics and aviation because these experts at the time thought so, regardless of how other systems classified such patents.
Someday we can have indicators, regarding each patent, of the sources that did or did not count it in the aeronautics area.

Peter has a copy of the reprint of this book.  A version is [https://books.google.com/books/about/AERONAUTICS.html?id=bJERvgAACAAJ&hl=en for sale online]. A [https://archive.org/details/aronauticsabri00brewuoft pdf] is available at the Internet Archive.

[[Griffith Brewer]] (1867-1948) and [[Patrick Young Alexander]] (1867-1943) both worked in the aero field; Brewer was a patent agent as well as an aeronaut, aviator, and inventor. 

At the end of the book, starting on page 157, they have a Subject Index which is a classification scheme for patents on aeronautics and aviation, possibly a bit different from the one used by the British Patent Office of the time. 
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