Rijksmuseum

Object data

copper, tin and lead

height 37.2 cm × width 15.6 cm × depth 8 cm

Inscriptions

inscription, above the furnace door, on a small square plaque: EMILE MARTINS / PATENT.
label, inside the funnel: 1162 former inventory label

Provenance

...; donated by Louis Emile Constant Martin, London, to the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, c. 1863;¹ transferred to the museum, 1883

Object number: NG-MC-1162

Copyright: Public domain

Entry

Model of half a vertical boiler.

There are two furnaces at the bottom; a number of tubes direct the gases through the boiler via the smoke rooms to a vertical shaft, on the bottom of which the gases are heated by a coke fire on a grating (now missing). The connection with the funnel is underneath this grating. Water and steam circulate in a number of interconnected chambers and the steam dome at the top. On the outside two furnace doors are positioned, and there are two doors into the smoke rooms above the tubes and one door to the shaft.

This patent model was a gift from L.E.C. (Emile) Martin to the Department of the Navy. It was patented for Martin, who lived in Paris at the time, by D. van den Bosch in the Netherlands in 1863 and in the United Kingdom in 1864. This boiler was used for stationary steam engines. The sawmill, which was installed at the Amsterdam Navy dockyard n 1861-62, had a Martin boiler.

Literature

British Patent, 28/4/1864, no. 1063, figs. 1-2; B.J. Tideman, Bestek boomzagerij Amsterdam, s.l. s.a., manuscript in HSM, inv. no. A.0356 [no. 0005]; J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1162; G. Doorman, Het Nederlandsch octrooiwezen en de techniek der 19de eeuw, The Hague 1947, p. 442, no. 3556; A.A. Lemmers, Van werf tot facilitair complex. 350 jaar marinegeschiedenis op Kattenburg, The Hague 2005, p. 92

Citation

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Model of a Vertical Tubular Boiler, France, 1863', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244975

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