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Drawing of original fire box of "Rocket" locomotive, 1829

Drawing of original fire box of "Rocket" locomotive

[Technical drawing] "Activated Sludge" process plant 1923. Type "C" for treatment of sewage from small communities / [Science Museum. 1924. Line drawing with wash, scale c.1 : 16. Drawing makes reference to Museum objects 1924-220 and 1924-456 in Sewerage & sanitation collection. It is copied from drawing 1924-222 (disposed of)]

Technical drawing, "Activated Sludge" process plant 1923

1924

[Technical drawing] Apparatus for the Manufacture of Nitro-glycerine. [nd, pre-1914. Coloured lithograph, no scale]

Technical drawing Apparatus for the Manufacture of Nitro-glycerine.

pre-1914

[Technical drawing] Rotary steam engine, single chamber type / Sydney Smith & and Sons (Nottm.) Ltd. [ca.1893. Line drawing with wash, no scale. Refers to Isaac Smith's patent no. 22573 of 1893]

Technical drawing Rotary steam engine

circa 1893

[French technical drawing] Plan d'un Marais Salant avec la description des parties qui le composent et la maniere de faire le sel, [17--. 1 sheet, ink and colour wash/ms. Drawing depicts plan and perspective of salt pans at Brouage near Marennes in western France and bears textual information, signed by Dubois, explaining both their construction and the manufacture of salt. This item is on SM b & w neg. and col. trans.]

Plan d'un Marais Salant avec la description des parties qui le composent et la maniere de faire le sel

1701-1800

[French technical drawing of mechanism to raise water from well, 17--. 1 sheet, ink and colour wash]

French technical drawing of mechanism to raise water from well

1701-1800

[French technical drawing] Construction et maneuvre particuliere d'ecluse, [17--. 1 sheet, ink and colour wash. Drawing, showing workings of lock gate, has ms. annotations which claim the design to be better than that of Clairac]

French technical drawing, Construction et maneuvre particuliere d'ecluse

1701-1800

[French technical drawing, ink and colour wash, of a `niveau a lunette', with letter by designer on verso, dated Bayonne 1 Aug. 1729. Drawing, of a telescopic level, bears ms. annotations. The letter on verso mentions use of this newly designed level when making navigable the river at Pau en Bearn; author's signature has been torn off]

French technical drawing of a 'niveau a lunette'

1729

[French technical drawing] Dessein d'un Phare, [17--. 1 sheet, ink and colour wash. Drawing shows section of top of lighthouse with optic device in place]

Dessein d'un Phare

1701-1800

[French technical drawing] Attelier de Corderie pour gaudronner les Cables, [17--. 1 sheet, ink and colour wash. Drawing details construction and workings of a rope-making machine]

Attelier de Corderie pour gaudronner les Cables

1701-1800

[French technical drawing] Plan et profil d'une Glaciere, [17--. 1 sheet, ink and colour wash. Drawing details construction of an ice-house/ice-pit. With "Devis pour la Construction d'une Glaciere conforme au Dessein cy Joint"; with 3 p ms. on one leaf, 31.5 x 40.5cm folded to 31.5 x 20.5cm.]

French technical drawing, Plan et profil d'une Glaciere

1701-1800

[Technical drawing] Catrine Cotton Mills / [Collated by] James Williamson, [ca.1947. The mills, in East Ayrshire, were built in 1787 and bought by James Finlay & Co. in 1802. The 500hp water wheels were installed in 1827 by Fairbairn & Lilly, serving as the main drive without failure for 120 years before being dismantled in 1947. The dyeline drawing shows the principal features of the water wheels. Scales 1 : 12, 1 : 60]

Catrine Cotton Mills

circa 1947

Dyeline Print. Plan, elevation and section. Doppelt wirtender Zeveltakt-Schifts-Disselmater. System Henning, Patente angemeldet (1982-1984)

Dyline print

Printed technical drawing of cross sections and elevations for proposed channel tunnel. Taken from a printed patent or leaflet describing a proposed Channel Tunnel scheme.

Proposed channel tunnel cross sections and elevations.

circa 1840- circa 1900

[Technical drawing] Metropolitan Water Board. Walton Filters / Henry E. Stilgoe, Chief Engineer. 1923. [Drawing shows plan of inlet, plan of outlet, section of inlet, main channel, section of outlet re type of slow sand filters. Ink and wash(?), scale 1" : 2']

Metropolitan Water Board technical drawing

1923

[Technical drawing (Dutch?) of a roof truss and projections of it. ca.1800? Ink and wash]

Technical drawing of a roof truss and projections of it

circa 1800

[Colour-printed technical drawing of 'Patent "Princess" cream separator (loose plate drum)' (section). ca.1900. Scale 1 : 1. The actual separator, capacity 50 gallons, is in the Museum's Nutrition & Food Technology collection (inv. no. 1908-28)]

Colour-printed technical drawing of 'Patent "Princess" cream separator

circa 1900

[Technical drawing] Type L Chassis arrangement, dwg no.10013 / Cubitts' Engineering Co. Ltd., Aylesbury. [nd. Diazo print. Plan and elevation of the chassis for the Cubitt 16/20 h.p. motorcar. Drawing No.10013]

Technical drawing Type L Chassis arrangement

1920-1929

[Technical drawing] First Order Lantern and Dioptric Apparatus for the Little Basses Lighthouse, Ceylon : timber platform / Jas. N. Douglass, 1876 Apr 18. [Line drawing, part with wash, on oiled linen paper, scale 1" : 1'. Bears stamp of Trinity House, Engineer's Ofice, No.4751A]

Technical drawing First Order Lantern and Dioptric Apparatus for the Little Basses Lighthouse

1876

[French technical drawing] Profil d'un moulin a poudre ou a foulons, [17--. 1 sheet, ink and wash. Perspective drawing of a powder mill or a fulling mill]

Profil d'un moulin a poudre ou a foulons

1701-1800

[French technical drawing] Elevation d'une cheminee dans laquelle on a pratique un poele propre a bruler de la houille / P.G. de Breval, Ingenieur ordre du Roy, Lille, 1738 Oct 12. [1 sheet, ink and colour wash. Drawing shows fireplace in side and end elevations]

Elevation d'une cheminee dans laquelle on a pratique un poele propre a bruler de la houille

1701-1800

[French technical drawing] Desseing d'une Bouee, [17--. 1 sheet, ink and colour wash. Design of a buoy]

Desseing d'une Bouee

1701-1800

[French technical drawing] Dessein d'un Rechaux Semblable a celuy de Cordovan, [17--. 1 sheet, ink and colour wash. Drawing, with ms. annotations, details the construction and working of a charcoal-burning grill. Bears name of engineer Bitry]

Dessein d'un Rechaux Semblable a celuy de Cordovan

1701-1800

[Technical drawing] Modified Fairmile 'D' class fast anti-submarine boats Nos. 6010 & 5013 of 1945 / John Lambert, 1981 Jan 3. [Scale 1":8'. Plan L/S/34 in the Warship data International authentic plans series, redrawn from Vospers drawings 13677 and 13678 supplied by National Maritime Museum. No.5010 was built by Dickie Bangor & Tarbert (Wales); no.5013 was built by Risdon Beazley of Northam]

Technical drawing Modified Fairmile 'D' class fast anti-submarine boats Nos. 6010 & 5013 of 1945

1981

Coloured drawing of large direct coupled Oil Engine and 27" Centrifugal Pump, for Fen Drainage

Coloured drawing of large direct coupled Oil Engine and 27" Centrifugal Pump

Black line print of lentz valve gear for Bengal Nagpur Railway locomotive 1927

Black line print of lentz valve gear for Bengal Nagpur Railway locomotive 1927

[French technical drawing of a pantograph, 17--. Drawing, ink and colour wash, bears ms. annotations. With "Explication de la feuille de dessein", 2p. ms. in French, being a pantograph specification), 17--]

French technical drawing of a pantograph

1701-1800