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Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

1853-1857

Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857

1853-1857
[Ms. engineering notebooks (7) of John Scott Russell - records of trials on steam carriages undertaken in 1834, and registers relating to the 'Great Eastern' constructed by him in partnership with I.K.Brunel. Comprise /1: notebook recording trials of his steam carriages between Paisley and Glasgow in 1834; 'Calculations of Ships' dated June 1851 and signed B Jensen, including comparative tables re 'America' schooner yacht and Stephenson's 'Titania'; /2: indexed office register of ships built by Russell from 1848 (ships after 1853 undated) listing over 60 vessels with details of hull cost, woodwork, engines, fittings etc, including of Stephenson's 'Titania' and her refitting as 'Themis'; /3: indexed office register of ships built by Russell between ca.1853 and 1860 listing 63 vessels including 'Great Eastern', with details of dimensions, tonnage, draft, boilers etc, particulars of 'El Rey d'Jaymes II', details of screw collier 'Nightingale' and 4p of specifications of 'Great Eastern'; /4: office register containing details of ship engines, boilers etc of ships completed 1852-59, and with 'Indicator Diagram - Gt Eastern/Trip from Weymouth to Holyhead Oct 1859/...Mr Halford, H.M.Dockyard Woolwich; /5: notes on physics, thermometers, gases, heat etc kept between 1856 Nov 19 and 1857 Jan 21, with reversed at end calculations of displacement of 1859 Dec including calculations of stability of the 'Great Eastern'; /6: general notebook on naval architecture, displacement etc, 1862-63; /7: general notebook, beginning as an office register to steam ships, but with further rough notes made on trip to France in 1867 Apr etc.]

Ms. engineering notebooks (7) of John Scott Russell - records of trials on steam carriages undertaken in 1834

1834-1867
[Plates 22, 47, 75 & 76 from Naval Architecture / John Scott Russell. 1864. Being of an iron screw China clipper. Published by Day & Son, London. See also 1982-293 & 294]

Naval Architecture

1864
Model, scale 1:32, of a three-cylinger oscillating marine engine as fitted to the Egyptian government yacht 'Cleopatra' (1858), patented by John Scott Russell, and made by Jabez James, England, 1858-1868

Model, of a three-cylinger oscillating marine engine as fitted to the Egyptian government yacht 'Cleopatra'

1858
[Plates 112 to 119 and 119* from Naval Architecture / John Scott Russell. 1864. Published by Day & Son, London. Being re waveline theory and forms of least resistance. See also 1982-292 & 293]

Naval Architecture

1864
[Plates 35, 36, 62 & 63 from Naval Architecture / John Scott Russell. 1864. Being of a cross Channel passenger steamer. Published by Day & Son, London. See also 1982-292 & 294]

Naval Architecture

1864