Object data
brass and iron
height 14.8 cm × width 16.6 cm × depth 12.5 cm
anonymous, anonymous
Model of a Cart for Rope Making
Netherlands, United States of America, c. 1800 - c. 1825
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-60
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Model of a cart for ropemaking, consisting of a brass frame with a gear train, on four wheels. The large wheel of the gear train, set longitudinally, has a large number of holes in concentric circles for supports on which a rope can be coiled up. Just one whirl is mounted on the cart.
The identification of the model is based on elimination. This cart was used for the manufacture of patent rope, of which all the strands were laid with the same tension. Its North American origin, as stated by Obreen,1 is confirmed by Marestier.2 Both William May Jr, in his correspondence with his brother Job Seaburne May (1765-1827),3 and Obreen use the word ‘equalizing machine’ in connection with this model.
Literature
J.B. Marestier, Mémoire sur les bateaux à vapeur des États-Unis d’Amérique, avec appendice sur diverses machines relatives à la marine, Paris 1824, pp. 263-69, pl. XVI, figs. 145-47; J.C. Rijk, Generaal Rapport Z.M. Pallas, s.l. 1825, manuscript with 6 appendices in HSM, inv. no. NII (03144), Bijlage 1, pp. 155 ff.; J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 60; J.C. Pilaar, Handleiding tot de kennis van het tuig, de masten, zeilen, enz. van het schip, Amsterdam 1858 (3rd ed. rev. by G.P.J. Mossel), pp. 64-65 (patent rope); A.A. Lemmers, Techniek op schaal. Modellen en het technologiebeleid van de Marine 1725-1885, Amsterdam 1996, pp. 201-03
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous or anonymous, Model of a Cart for Rope Making or , United States of America, c. 1800 - c. 1825', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.242785
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