Lot Essay
This model was awarded a Bronze Medal, ME Exhibition, Olympia 1997.
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Details
An exhibition standard model of the wooden boiler supplied to the Water Works, Philadelphia, by Soho Foundry, Newark (New Jersey) 1801 and modelled by T.D. Walshaw
with brazed copper firebox, ashpan and flue tubes and combustion chamber surrounded by the boiler casing of yellow pine with oak battens and fittings including dummy pressure gauge, weight and lever safety valve, feed water column, main stop valve, drain pipes and plug, twin fire doors and grates, damper, square headed nuts and bolts and stoker inspecting a repair [?], finished in natural wood, black and brown -- 18 x 18in. (47 x 47.6cm.) Award certificate, historical data, detailed description
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with brazed copper firebox, ashpan and flue tubes and combustion chamber surrounded by the boiler casing of yellow pine with oak battens and fittings including dummy pressure gauge, weight and lever safety valve, feed water column, main stop valve, drain pipes and plug, twin fire doors and grates, damper, square headed nuts and bolts and stoker inspecting a repair [?], finished in natural wood, black and brown -- 18 x 18in. (47 x 47.6cm.) Award certificate, historical data, detailed description
See Illustration
Literature
c/f The Engineer, 3rd November 1876, pp306-212
Notes upon the Water Works of Philadelphia 1801-1815
A paper presented to the Franklin Institute about 1880 by Fred K. Graff Jnr but signed as 1876
Notes upon the Water Works of Philadelphia 1801-1815
A paper presented to the Franklin Institute about 1880 by Fred K. Graff Jnr but signed as 1876