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Base for boiler
Base for steam engine
Base forsteam engine
Boiler
cast: medal cast: commemorative medal
clothing, outerwear: uniform: jacket
clothing, outerwear: uniform: Junior engineer's
clothing, outerwear: uniform: trousers
clothing, outerwear: uniform: uniform, junior engineer's
Compass dividing engine
Component model
Compound steam engine
Cutaway model
Daguerreotype
Diesel engine
documentary artifact: model, engine
documentary artifact: model, engine room telegraph
documentary artifact: photonegative, glass
documentary artifact: ship plan: engine
documentary artifact: ship plan: engine, fire(Bramah's)
documentary artifact: ship plan: engine room
documentary artifact: ship plan: framing, engine room
documentary artifact: ship plan: platform(fore & after)
documentary artifact: ship plan: section, construction(engine room)
documentary artifact: ship plan: section, construction(outside double bottom, engine room)
documentary artifact: ship plan: section, construction(Y turret, boiler room, engine room, forward magazine)
documentary artifact: ship plan: section, midship
Drawing
energy production t&e: engine, steam
energy production t&e: model, steam engine
engine
Engine
engine, aero
engine, fire
engine, internal combustion
engine, marine
engine, petrol
engine, two stroke petrol
engineering t&e: hammer, ball peine(shipwrights)
Engine indicator
Engine model
Engine model; Component model
Engine model; Equipment model
Engine model; Sectional model
Engine modelctional, Sectional model
Engine modelInstructional model
engine parts
Engine room telegraph
Engine room telegraph model
Equipment model
Equipment model; Engine model
Equipment model; Sectional model
Equipment modelEngine model
framing, engine room
Glass plate negative
hammer, ball pein
Inboard engine
Inctructional, Picture model
Indicator, engine
Instru
Instructional, Picture model
Instructional, Sectional model
Instructional model
jacket
lever, engine control
Lid for engine controls
loudaphone, engine room
Marine engine
Medal cast
Midship model
mining and mineral harvesting t&e: engine, vertical single cylindar pumping
Monkey jacket
Picture model
Planimeter, engine indicator card
Platform
Sectional model
Sectional model; Cutaway model; Equipment model; Engine model
Sectional model; Engine model
Sectional model; Midship model; Base for steam engine
Sectional model; Midship model; Steam engine
Ship equipment model
Ship equipment modelEngine model
Single cylinder engine
Spare engine parts for lifeboat
Spare engine parts for lifeboat engines
Spare engine parts for the lifeboat engines
Spare lifeboat engine parts
Starting engine handle
Steam engine
Steam engine model
steering engine
steering gear
Technical drawing
telegraph, engine room
telephone
tool: engine, wheel cutting
Triple expansion engine
Trousers
Waterline model
Waterline model; Single cylinder engine
water transport: fighting vessel
water transport: fighting vessel: 3 gun boat (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: aircraft carrier, fleet (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: battleship (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: cruiser, 1st class (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: cruiser, light (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: cruiser, protected (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: frigate (HMS)
water transport: fighting vessel: minesweeper (HMS)
water transport: model, instructional
water transport: model, instructional(working)
water transport: passenger vessel: liner
water transport: recreation vessel: schooner
water transport: sailing vessel: schooner
water transport: service vessel: dredging vessel
water transport: service vessel: launch
water transport: service vessel: lifeboat
water transport: steam vessel
water transport: steam vessel: dredging vessel
water transport: steam vessel: paddle-wheel
water transport accessory: engine
water transport accessory: engine, annular cylinder
water transport accessory: engine, compound
water transport accessory: engine, compound steam
water transport accessory: engine, diesel
water transport accessory: engine, double cylinder
water transport accessory: engine, double oscillating
water transport accessory: engine, horizontal
water transport accessory: engine, inboard
water transport accessory: engine, internal combustion
water transport accessory: engine, marine diesel 6 cylinder
water transport accessory: engine, paddle oscillating
water transport accessory: engine, petrol
water transport accessory: engine, steam quadruple expansion
water transport accessory: engine, two stroke petrol
water transport accessory: gear, steering
water transport accessory: lever, engine control
water transport accessory: loudaphone, engine room
water transport accessory: model, engine
water transport accessory: model, engine(cutaway: working)
water transport accessory: model, engine(working)
water transport accessory: propeller
water transport accessory: telegraph, engine room
water transport accessory: telephone(bridge to chief engineer)
water transport component: engine, compound
water transport component: engine, paddle-wheel
water transport component: engine, paddle-wheel (beam)
water transport component: engine, quadruple expansion (longitudinal)
water transport component: engine, side lever (longitudinal)
water transport component: engine, triple expansion (longitudinal)
water transport component: interior, vessel: engine room
water transport component: midship
water transport component: model, engine(cutaway: propeller)
water transport component: model, engine(working)
water transport component: model, instructional
water transport component: model, instructional: picture model(cutaway: engine: longitudinal: working)
water transport component: model, instructional: sectional model
water transport component: model, instructional: sectional model(midship: cutaway: working)
Wheel cutting engine
Working model
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black ink
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brass
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coating: paint
coating: varnish
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inorganic: glass
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organic: bristle
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A. Blomquist
Airphone Company
Ashcroft Manufacturing Company
Bedford Lemere & Co
Brittannia Mariner
Clifford & Snell
D. Napier & Sons Ltd
Derek Henden Co.
Director of Naval Construction
Donkin and Co. Ltd.
Elliott Bros
Fairbanks Morse Incorporated
Goodall, Stanley Vernon
Groves and Gutteridge, Groves and
H. & T. C. Batchelor
J. & G. Thomson & Co
Johns, A W
John Samuel White and Co. Ltd
J W Ray & Co
Kelvin
Maudslay, Sons & Field
Miller Rayner Ltd
Paxman-Ricardo
Penn, J, Ltd
R. & H. Green & Silley Weir Ltd
Sinclair Model Engineering Ltd
Thornycroft, J I
Thornycroft, J I ?
Two-Stroke Engine Co
Unknown
W. Sisson and Co. Ltd
Weyburn Engineering Co
White, W H
Whyte, John
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Basingstoke, Hampshire, England
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Greenwich
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Royal Albert Dock
Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex, England
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West Kensington
Woolwich Dockyard
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Agamemnon (1906)
Almora (1873)
Aquitania (1914)
Ark Royal (1937)
Aurora (1936)
Blake (1889)
Blenheim (1890)
Buenos Aires (1887)
Chakdina (1951)
Gorgon (1837)
Grand Duchess
Hebe 1871
Hogue (1811)
Lightning (1829)
Lucania (1893)
Mapledurham
Monarch (1888)
Rifleman (1846)
Sans Pareil 1887
Sharpshooter 1846
Sphinx 1883
Strathlairg
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Cammell Laird & Company Ltd
Fairfield Shipbuilding & Engineering Co Ltd
Hancock, W K
HM Dockyard, Chatham
HM Dockyard, Portsmouth
Humphrey Tennant & Co
John Brown & Company
John Penn & Sons
Lloyd, Thomas
Maudslay, Joseph
Maudslay, Sons & Field
Morland, Samuel
Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Company
Royal National Lifeboat Institution
Salters Steamers
Science Museum Group
South Kensington Museum
Thames Iron Works and Shipbuilding Company
Turner, Stuart
Vosper Thornycroft (UK) Ltd
William Fairbairn & Sons
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Thomas Kirk Wright (Starting engine handle)
Thomas Kirk Wright (Lid for engine controls)
Engine indicator
Richards Improved Patent Steam Engine Indicator (Engine indicator)
engine, fire
Thomas Kirk Wright (Spare engine parts for the lifeboat engines)
Inboard engine
loudaphone, engine room
Compound steam engine
Diesel engine
Thomas Kirk Wright (Spare lifeboat engine parts)
Thomas Kirk Wright (Spare lifeboat engine parts)
Thomas Kirk Wright (Spare engine parts for the lifeboat engines)
Technical drawing
Technical drawing
Starting platform on the 'Aquitania' (1914) (Glass plate negative)
lever, engine control
Lion VII D (engine, aero)
J. & S. Seaward and Capel engine for the paddle sloop HMS Gorgon (1837) (Engine model)
Equipment model; Engine model
Buenos Aires (Instructional, Picture model)
engine, two stroke petrol
engine, petrol
Equipment model; Engine model
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