Overall
Orange overalls – quite stained.
Revered Items
Sculpture, Bust
A resin, life-size bust of James Watt (the Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen’s 1712 Newcomen steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1776, which was fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his native Great Britain and the rest of the world). The bust …
Dummy Explosive
Wooden cylinder wrapped in white coloured paper with red and orange lettering. Exhibition label text: Explosives, 1970 – 1980’s. Burning coal gives off gasses which can be cooled and mixed with sulphur to create ammonia. Ammonia is used in the manufacture of explosives. 4 x 17.0 x 3.0 cm in diameter 1 x 20.5 x …
Model
Komat’su Off-Highway Truck. HD785-7
Duck
Balsa wood narrow-tank duck model made by Stephen Salter circa 1974 with aluminium-alloy rod through centre. Approx 1/100th scale. Used with external dynamometer which provided a variable load for the model to work against so that it’s power capture performance could be assessed. One of the very first ducks. Tear drop shaped composed of 9 …