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To the President... of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts Manufactures & Commerce. This plate of the New Invented Expedition Crane is humbly Dedicated by...John Webb, the Inventor, October 1764
Print. A working sketch of Webb's Expedition Crane unloading coal from a river barge. The crane was located in a warehouse and was powered by a single horse. The drawing was presented to the President of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts Manufactures & Commerce by the inventor John Webb.
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Object Details
| ID: | PAG8290 |
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| Type: | |
| Display location: | Not on display |
| Creator: | Taylor, Isaac |
| Date made: | Oct 1764 |
| Credit: | National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London |
| Measurements: | Sheet: 473 x 339 mm; Plate: 460 x 326 mm |
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