Object data
copper and rope
length 100 cm (approx.) × width 9 cm × height 5 cm
anonymous
Seven Samples of Lightning Conductors
Netherlands, 1848
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-602
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Seven samples of lightning conductors for ships in the form of copper cables, all shroud-laid.
Three samples are made of four cable-laid strands of three shroud-laid strands of seven, six and five yarns each. The other four, all with a rope heart strand, consist of five cable-laid strands of seven yarns each, the yarns varying in thickness.
According to Obreen these lighting conductors were in use since 1848.1
Literature
D.G. Muller, ‘Nadere beschouwing der afleiders, aan boord van ’s Rijks schepen. Met eene plaat’, Verhandelingen en berigten betrekkelijk het zeewezen (1848), pp. 237-99 and pl.1; J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 602; 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), p. 71
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Seven Samples of Lightning Conductors, Netherlands, 1848', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244417
(accessed 14 November 2024 23:48:13).