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SMITH, Sir Francis Pettit (1804-1874). English inventor and, along with John Ericsson, one of the inventors of the screw propeller. Engraving
Sea fight between the Alabama and the KearsageSlide showing a picture of two ships in battle. In the foreground is the CSS Alabama, a screw sloop-of-war built for the Confederate States Navy
Engraving of worm-driven fire squirtEngraving of people operating a large worm-driven fire squirt mounted on two wheels, to put out a fire in a burning building, reproduced from Besoni, Theatrum Instrumentorum et Machinarum, 1568
A Made in England Officers toilet kit - WWIA Made in England Officers toilet kit. It comprises a leather case containing a glass bottle - possibly for hair tonic - with a metal screw top, and a tin box - possibly for shaving equipment
British Hurricane ramming Italian raider by G. H. DavisThe new technique in air attack during the Second World War: a British Hurricane ramming an Italian raider in mid-air. The British pilot said of the incident
Satire on OppressionA Dutch satire on Spanish oppression : Margaret of Parma and the duke of Alva turn the screw on the Dutch lion, with the approval of the pope and the king of Spain. Date: circa 1567
Japan - The Imperial Mint at Osaka - The Screw Presses Date: circa 1910s
Propeller and rudder of large shipThe propeller and rudder of mid-sized vessel, with a hardy dock worker demonstrating the scale of the thing. Date: circa 1920s
Small Laval turbine on screw. Hargrave Slide 39
Compressed air bow screw machine. Hargrave Slide 28
48-band stern screw machine. Hargrave Slide 22
Bow and stern screw dihedral angle machines. Hargrave Slide 21
Hyland 45ft twin screw express cruiser
Self-acting sliding and screw-cutting lathe, heavy pattern. Height of centres 12 inches
Cunard White Star Steamer Queen MaryThe Cunard White Star Quadruple-Screw Turbine Steamer Queen Mary
Rusty screw
Surface of a rusty screw
Edisons Lamp / OriginalEdisons original lamp and lamp fitting. Date: circa 1880
MBW-MFB-London Fire Brigade museum artefactMFB rolled leather fire hose with screw couplings. Copper rivets were introduced in around 1819. This type of hose was phased out in the late 1800s
White Star Line, triple screw steamer Olympic, 882 1 / 2 ft. lWhite Star Line, triple screw steamer Olympic, 882 1/2 ft. long, 46, 359 tons. Postcard showing the Olympic steamship at sea. Date between 1910 and 1915?
United States Auxiliary Screw steam frigate Merrimac 60 guns. Off the entrance to New York harbour. Print showing a broadside view of the port side of the steam frigate U.S.S
An Allan Line Royal Mail triple screw steamerThe Allan Line Royal Mail triple screw steamer, " Victorian" and " Virginian". (12000 tons). Allan Line was bought by Canadian Pacific Steamships in 1917
The U. S. Battleship MaineThe U.S. Battleship Maine. Twin Screw; Length, 318 Feet; Breadth, 57 Feet; Displacement, 6, 682 Tons. Destroyed in the Harbor of Havana, February 15th, 1898
Sauvage PhotoFREDERIC SAUVAGE French engineer, inventor of the screw propellor, in 1854. Date: 1785 - 1857
Silver Plating 18th CVarious tools used for silver plating including a hammer, screws and chucks. Date: Circa 1760
STEAMSHIP FLORA 1862Dudgeons new double-screw iron steam-ship Flora. Date: 1862
New design for train snow ploughA new design for a railway snow plough - the unit on a non snow-bound track showing the interior workings
Princess Louise launching screw-corvette, Druid at DeptforPrincess Louise (1848-1939) releasing the dog-shore for the launch of the screw-corvette ship, Druid at Deptford Dockyard, London in 1869
Northumberland BuiltThe iron-clad screw-frigate Northumberland in the course of construction by the Millwall Ironworks and Ship- Building Company, on the Thames
SS City of Exeter, July 1914Photograph of the Ellerman twin-screw liner, SS City of Exeter on passage from Britain to Calcutta, July 1914
H. M Screw CaesarEngraving of the fitting out of a war steamer, H. M. Screw Caesar at Portsmouth
Five presentation vases / cupsThe Queens Gold Vase, The Royal Hunt Cup, The Ascot Cup, the silver vase presented to Captain Callaghan, Adjutant of the North Cork Rifles, and the claret jug and salver presented to Mr Smith
Archimedean ScrewAn Archimedean screw
C16 Screw PressTwo printers working at a very primitive screw press : other tools of their trade are also depicted
Stevens Screw PropellerAmerican engineer John Stevens is the first to apply the screw principle to propel a steamboat, though it will be some time before his device replaces the paddle wheel
Robert F Stockton ShipJohn Ericsson successfully tests his screw propeller on this steamship which crosses the Atlantic, leading to his emigration to the U.S. and many other innovations
Great Easterns EnginesThe huge screw engines of the Great Eastern, designed and bult by James Watt and Co
Brunels Great BritainDepicted in rough seas off Lundy, Brunels ship is the first iron, screw-propelled liner; in 1846 she will run aground, but end her career as a hulk in the Falklands
The City of BostonThe steamship City of Boston which went missing during a journey from Halifax to Liverpool in 1870
Hunting Alphabet - sS is the Screw you can hire for the day - but as to his quality, I m sure I can t say... Date: 1929
First ScrewTHE FIRST SCREW