Waiting Room Seat, Great Northern & Great Eastern Joint Committee, Ornate wooden bench, varnished. GN & GEJC carved on back. Wooden station bench, Great Northern & Great Eastern Joint Committee
Admiralty steering compass demonstrating the laminated compass needles typical of the mid-19th century 1850-1870
Etchings with ruled line grounds (before 1852). Prepared as experimental trials of ground effect by ordinary mechanical means, no photo-etching involved. Three steel plates, in box, with rulings on surface varnish layer, 5" x 3 1/2". Three Varnished Steel Plates Marked With Parrallel Lines 1852
Working wood model, of a disc steam engine as patented by Taylor and Davies in 1836-8 and repeatedly trialled on land and at sea. Model of disc engine 1836-1857
Working model, scale 1:12, of a proposed modified twin-cylinder or 'Siamese' paddle wheel engine to suit the requirements of screw propulsion with one crank and representing only half of the engine (c.1850), on wooden base, by Maudslay, Sons and Field, Lambeth, London, England, 1850-1900 Working model 1850-1900
Model, scale 1:24, of the midship section of a sea-camel, unsigned, Russia, 1854-1869. Used to lift large ships over the bar between Kronstadt and St Petersburg. Sea-camels were buoyancy boxes that could be attached to the side of a vessel to reduce her draft. Full with ballast water, the sea-camels were attached to the side of a vessel. By pumping out the water from the seacamels, the vessel's draft was reduced. Model of midship section of Russian Sea-Camel 1854-1869
Model, scale 1:12, of a river boat from British Guiana. Model of a river boat from British Guiana 1920-1928
Model, scale 1:15, of a flat-bottomed gondola of the type still used in modern Venice, with ornamental 'beak' at the stem, unsigned, Europe, 1950-1960 Model of a Venetian gondola 1950-1960
Rigged model of a Dubai Dhow, on wood stand, unsigned, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 1971-1980. Dubai Dhow 1971-1979
Contemporary dockyard model, scale 1:48, unrigged, of a 60-gun heavy frigate, possibly the 'Leander' (1813), unsigned, England, 1813-1830 Model (unrigged) of a heavy frigate 1813-1830
Compressed beech wooden bench designed by Jane Dillon Compressed beech wooden bench designed by Jane Dillon
Waiting Room Seat, Tottenham & Hampstead Junction Railway, pale wooden seat, varnished T & HJR carved on back. Station Seat, Tottenham & Hampstead Junction Railway
Whole model, scale 1:12, rigged, Mevagissey, lug ketch, unsigned, Mevagissey, Cornwall, England, 1870-1880. This model represents the type of boat formerly used in the East Cornish ports for drift fishing. The East Cornish boats differed from the West Cornish fishing vessles in that they were generally smaller. When engaged in mackerel fishing, or in the winter pilchard or herring fishing, the crew was five hands strong but for summer pilchard fishing only three hands were required (see note). Whole model of lug ketch 1870-1880
Contemporary model, scale 1:6, of the clinker-built surf boat, ‘Sea Foam’, fitted for three sets of oars (not present) and used on the Australian coast, unsigned, Australian, 1920-1926 Model of Australian surf boat 1920-1926