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
Waiting Room Seat, Tottenham & Hampstead Junction Railway, pale wooden seat, varnished T & HJR carved on back. Station Seat, Tottenham & Hampstead Junction Railway
Compressed beech wooden bench designed by Jane Dillon Compressed beech wooden bench designed by Jane Dillon
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