Object data
wood, brass and paint
height 35.5 cm × width 97 cm × depth 51.6 cm
Koninklijke Fabriek P. van Vlissingen & Dudok van Heel
Model of an Oscillating Steam Engine with Adjustable Steam Valve
Amsterdam, 1855
Inscriptions
- label, top: 534 former inventory label
Conservation
- Ab Hoving, October 2008: missing parts reconstructed; woodworm treatment; retouched
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-534
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Schematic model of a steam engine with moving parts, mounted on a backboard.
The model can be operated by means of a crank and shows the following parts: a cross section of an oscillating cylinder and piston driving the crankshaft, a double eccentric on the crankshaft driving the triple-port steam valve, and the control for the steam valve. This control consists of a handle and worm drive setting in motion a cogwheel section, which regulates the transmission of the eccentrics on the steam valve with a connecting rod. With this control the engine can be made to run forwards or backwards.
This model was made at the Koninklijke Fabriek P. van Vlissingen & Dudok van Heel in 1855.1 It represents the steam valve of the sloop of war Medusa. The adjustable steam valve was used on locomotives and in John Penn’s (1805-1878) trunk engines.2
Literature
J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 534; A.A. Lemmers, Techniek op schaal. Modellen en het technologiebeleid van de Marine 1725-1885, Amsterdam 1996, pp. 261-62
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Koninklijke Fabriek P. van Vlissingen & Dudok van Heel, Model of an Oscillating Steam Engine with Adjustable Steam Valve, Amsterdam, 1855', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244348
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