Screw Collection (page 3)

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

The U. S. Battleship Maine
The 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 Photo
FREDERIC SAUVAGE French engineer, inventor of the screw propellor, in 1854. Date: 1785 - 1857

Silver Plating 18th C
Various tools used for silver plating including a hammer, screws and chucks. Date: Circa 1760

STEAMSHIP FLORA 1862
Dudgeons new double-screw iron steam-ship Flora. Date: 1862

New design for train snow plough
A 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 Deptfor
Princess Louise (1848-1939) releasing the dog-shore for the launch of the screw-corvette ship, Druid at Deptford Dockyard, London in 1869

Northumberland Built
The 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 1914
Photograph of the Ellerman twin-screw liner, SS City of Exeter on passage from Britain to Calcutta, July 1914

H. M Screw Caesar
Engraving of the fitting out of a war steamer, H. M. Screw Caesar at Portsmouth

Five presentation vases / cups
The 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 Screw
An Archimedean screw

C16 Screw Press
Two printers working at a very primitive screw press : other tools of their trade are also depicted

Stevens Screw Propeller
American 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 Ship
John 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 Engines
The huge screw engines of the Great Eastern, designed and bult by James Watt and Co

Brunels Great Britain
Depicted 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 Boston
The steamship City of Boston which went missing during a journey from Halifax to Liverpool in 1870

Hunting Alphabet - s
S is the Screw you can hire for the day - but as to his quality, I m sure I can t say... Date: 1929

First Screw
THE FIRST SCREW

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