VI. MACHINERY. 399 



202Oa. Complete Working Model of the most Improved 

 Form of London Brigade Steam Fire Engine, as now in 



daily use in the metropolis, constructed entirely by H. Nagy 

 Effendi, Egyptian Government Pupil in the establishment of 

 Shand, Mason, & Co. Shand, Mason, Sf Co., London. 



20 2 Ob. Complete Working Model of the most Im- 

 proved Form of London Brigade Manual Fire Engine, 



as in daily use in the metropolis. Shand, Mason, fy Co., London. 



2021. Machine for Winding Cotton into Balls. Invented 

 by Sir Marc Isambard Brunei in 1802. 



Lent from the Patent Office Museum by the Commissioners 

 of Patents. 



By the invention of this machine the use of cotton for sewing became uni- 

 versal, as before its invention linen thread or occasionally cotton, always in 

 skeins, had been used. 



2022. Model of Machine for Carving Wood and other 

 Materials. Patented by Thomas Brown Jordan, A.D. 1845, 

 February 17th, No. 10,523. 



Lent from the Patent Office Museum by the Commissioners 

 of Patents. 



2025. The first Machine constructed for Printing and 

 Numbering Railway Tickets. Invented and patented by 

 Thomas Edmondson. 



Lent from the Patent Office Museum bytlie Commissioners 

 of Patents. 



2031. Model of Vauloue's File-driving Machine, made 

 by Jas. Ferguson, Esq., F.R.S. (the astronomer). 



Bennet Woodcraft, Esq., F.R.S. 



Vauloue's engine was used for driving the piles of old Westminster Bridge 

 in 1739 and following years. 



2113. Working Model of a steam pile-driving engine for 

 submarine foundations, and other work. Sissons and White's 

 patent. Sissons and White, Hull. South Kensington Museum. 



Note. This model, on about ^-inch scale, is a complete working illustration 

 of a steam pile-driver. The winch to raise the monkey by an endless chain is 

 driven by frictional gearing by the engine, which represents a high-pressure 

 inverted-cylinder direct-acting engine, having slide valve, eccentric, flywheel, 

 and force pump for feeding the boiler with water. The boiler represents an 

 upright tubular boiler for working at high pressure. 



2026. Model of Large Shears. Constructed by Messrs. Day 

 & Co., of Southampton, for the Government Dockyards. 



Lent from the Patent Office Museum by the Commissioners 

 of Patents. 



