Object data
steel
height 1.4 cm × width 10.3 cm × depth 1.4 cm
John Heaton
Sample of Steel
United Kingdom, 1868
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-1232
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Sample of Heaton’s steel, made from medium iron. It is a small bar measuring half of a square inch in section, broken or torn at the ends.
The inventory describes this sample as the gift of a Mr Seekel.1
Literature
‘Heaton’s Steel Converting Apparatus’, Mechanic’s Magazine, London 1868, pp. 350-51; J.M. Obreen et al., handwritten inventory list for items 944 to 1431, 1884, manuscript in HNA 476 RMA, inv. no. 1089, no. 1232
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'John Heaton, Sample of Steel, United Kingdom, 1868', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.245044
(accessed 6 January 2025 06:41:07).