Tin box containing: cylinder, and 19 washers, 14 machine screws, 'L'-shaped piece of wood, from Rotative steam beam engine model

Model, of ‘Top-hat’ shaped cast steel cylinder; and tin container, for cigarettes, containing nineteen steel flat washers, fourteen slotted brass dome-head machine screws and an ‘L’ shaped flat piece of wood, that has a 4 mm diameter hole in one corner, from model of an 'Independent' type (Cabinet) Rotative steam beam engine, with a self-supporting iron frame, originally designed by Matthew Murray, Leeds, Yorkshire, England, 1800. The steam engine and iron frame design were then evolved and made by Boulton, Watt & Co., Soho Foundry, Soho, Handsworth, Staffordshire, England, 1812-1814. James Watt owned the 'Independent' type (Cabinet) Rotative steam beam engine model.

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Category:: Motive Power

Object Number:: 1858-1/2

type:: container - receptacle and component - object

credit:: Greg, A.

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Model, of ‘top-hat’ shaped cast steel cylinder, from model of an 'Independent' type Beam Engine

Model, of ‘top-hat’ shaped cast steel cylinder, from model of an 'Independent' type (Cabinet) Rotative steam beam engine, with a self-supporting iron frame, originally designed by Matthew Murray, Leeds, Yorkshire, England, 1800. The steam engine and iron frame design were then evolved and made by Boulton, Watt & Co., Soho Foundry, Soho, Handsworth, Staffordshire, England, 1812-1814. James Watt owned the 'Independent' type (Cabinet) Rotative steam beam engine model.

Materials:: steel (metal)

Object Number:: 1858-1/2/1

type:: model - representation

Tin container, with 19 washers, 14 machine screws, 'L'-shaped piece of wood, from Rotative steam beam engine model

Tin container, for cigarettes, containing nineteen steel flat washers, fourteen slotted brass dome-head machine screws and an ‘L’ shaped flat piece of wood, that has a 4 mm diameter hole in one corner, from model of an 'Independent' type (Cabinet) Rotative steam beam engine, with a self-supporting iron frame, originally designed by Matthew Murray, Leeds, Yorkshire, England, 1800. The steam engine and iron frame design were then evolved and made by Boulton, Watt & Co., Soho Foundry, Soho, Handsworth, Staffordshire, England, 1812-1814. James Watt owned the 'Independent' type (Cabinet) Rotative steam beam engine model.