Screw Collection (page 2)

Quebec Steamship Company - S. S. Bermudian
The S. S. Bermudian of the Quebec Steamship Company - held the record for the fastest trip between New York and Bermuda of 39 hours, 20 minutes, set on 9th February, 1912. Date: circa 1913

Tools with comic verse on a Christmas card. Date: circa 1890s

Hamburg America Line twin-screw express steamer, New York to Southampton, London and Paris and Hamburg

Rejected by the Inventions Board - Heath Robinson WW1
Rejected by the Inventions Board - III - A Device for Screw Stoppering the Enemys Rifles. Another elaborate and convoluted method of beating the dastardly Hun devised by William Heath Robinson in The

PAPUA NEW GUINEA. Rabaul. Japanese reconnaissance aircraft Mitsubishi F-1 shotted down in Rabaul, Papua New Guinea, during the Second World War

The Screw Em Out golf hole cleaner by Heath Robinson
A typically convoluted contraption from William Heath Robinson, the first in a series entitled, Very Patent Aides to Sport, showing the Screw-Em-Out golf hole cleaner in action on a golf course

Tobacconists shop in Chester, Cheshire
The House of Bewlay tobacconists shop in Eastgate Street, Chester, Cheshire, where paranormal activity was reported from 1968 onwards

Aptyxiella portlandica (Sowerby), Portland screwstone
A gastropod steinkern or internal cast of a Portland screwstone (Aptyxiella portlandica) from the Jurassic Portland Stone, Top Roach, Portland

The Shipbuilder, Souvenir Number
Front cover of a Souvenir Number of The Shipbuilder industry journal, focusing on the White Star Line triple-screw cruise liners, Olympic and Titanic

HMS Phoenix after the Hong-Kong Typhoon, September 1906
Photograph of HMS Phoenix, the twin-screw steel and wood sloop of 1895, heeled over beside the coaling station, Hong Kong

SS Ernest Bazin, 1897
Illustration of M. Bazins Roller Steamer, SS Ernest Bazin, leaving Le Havre on a sea trial, July 1897. This vessel, launched in 1896

Rattler V Alecto Test
In a British government trial to compare the merits of screw and paddle wheel, the warsloop Rattler proves more powerful than the paddle- steamer Alecto

Launch of the Hannibal steamship, 1854
The launch of the HMSS Hannibal screw steamship on 31st January 1854 at Deptford Dockyard. The ship served in the Crimean War. Date: 1854

How can you do it on your screw? ( Screw meant how much you earned). The question here is... How indeed was she getting so much money for all these fancy clothes, hats and shoes...!!! Date: circa 1909

Saint Louis steamship renamed to USS Louisville in WWI
Saint Louis, twin-screw, was a transatlantic passenger liner built for American Line by William Cramp & Sons Shipbuilders, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1895. Sponsored by Mrs

Study the air screw by Leonardo da Vinci. Manuscript B, shee
Flying machines. Study of air screw by Leonardo da Vinci. Manuscript B, sheet, 83 V, 1483-1486. Model by Mario Alberto and Vittorio Somenzi, 1952. The science and Technology Museum Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardesque models. Adjustable-tilt wing and Wing-beating d
Leonardesque models. Adjustable-tilt wing (Codex Atlanticus) and Wing-beating device with a screw and lead screw system ( Manuscript B). Leonardo da Vinci.16 th century

Model. Wing-beating device with a screw and lead screw syste
Flying machines. Wing-beating device with a screw and lead screw system. Manuscript B, sheet 77 r. Leonardo da Vinci.15th century. Model by Mario Alberto and Vittorio Somenzi, 1952

CALCUTTA IN ROUGH SEA
The Royal Mail screw steam- ship in a hurricane off Mauritius in the Indian Ocean - the wretched passengers below deck must have been alarmed and uncomfortable. Date: 1853

Colgate Dental Cream / Adv
An advertisement for Colgate Ribbon Dental Cream - for strength and happiness...good to taste and good for the teeth. Date: 1919

STEAMSHIP BERLIN
Doppelschraubensalondampfer (twin screw passenger liner) of Norddeutscher Lloyd Bremen Date: early 20th century

Advert for H. W. Koehler - vacuum flask 1912
" Autotherm", vacuum flask, maintaining heat for 24 hours and keeps liquid cool for days. 1912

East and West India Dock, London - Arrival of John Bowes
East and West India Dock, London - Arrival of the John Bowes screw steamer into the Collier Dock. Date: 1852

City of New York steamer
The City of New York, a screw-steamer built by Messrs Tod and Macgregor, of the Clyde, Glasgow, for the Inman Line (the Liverpool, New York and Philadelphia Steam-ship Company)

Cat Island Lighthouse, Mississippi coast, USA
Cat Island Lighthouse, a square, screw-pile structure off the Mississippi coast, USA. Designed to guide shipping through the Mississippi Sound

Surgical equipment for a lithotomy.. Surgical equipment for a lithotomy- Mr. Earles stone breaker, Mr. Charles Bells staff, scoop, Mr. A. Burns knife and staff, Mr. Hunters knife, Mr. A

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 Kearsage
Slide 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 squirt
Engraving 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 - WWI
A 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. Davis
The 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 Oppression
A 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 ship
The 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 Mary
The Cunard White Star Quadruple-Screw Turbine Steamer Queen Mary

Rusty screw

Surface of a rusty screw

Edisons Lamp / Original
Edisons original lamp and lamp fitting. Date: circa 1880

MBW-MFB-London Fire Brigade museum artefact
MFB 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. l
White 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 steamer
The Allan Line Royal Mail triple screw steamer, " Victorian" and " Virginian". (12000 tons). Allan Line was bought by Canadian Pacific Steamships in 1917

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