Object data
wood and brass
height 8.8 cm × width 10.6 cm × depth 18.8 cm
Rijkswerf Rotterdam
Model of a Fire Hearth for Steam Engines
Rotterdam, United Kingdom, 1844
Provenance
...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-531
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Model of a fire hearth with a machine to add coals from underneath. A carrier with a movable bottom is filled with coals through a little door. The bottom is lifted by means of a handle and ratchet on a cogwheel. Two movable parts of the grating scoop the coals up to the grating level by means of a handle and ratchet.
The purpose of this furnace was to use the red-hot top layer of coal to burn the gasses of the fresh coals added from underneath.
Scale (derived) 1:10.
Literature
J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 531; J. Bourne, A Treatise on the Steam-Engine in its Various Applications to Mines, Mills, Steam Navigation, Railways, and Agriculture, London 1861 (5th ed.), p. 196; J.M. Dirkzwager, ‘De Nederlandse Marine als pionier in de technische ontwikkeling. Ontwikkeling en gebruik van stoomketels in het tweede kwart van de 19de eeuw’, Tijdschrift voor Zeegeschiedenis 11 (1992), no. 1, pp. 41-57, pp. 46-48, fig. 3
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'Rijkswerf Rotterdam, Model of a Fire Hearth for Steam Engines, Rotterdam, c. 1840', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244345
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