XI. APPLICATIONS. 379 



1728. Series of Specimens illustrating the development of 

 tlie applications of Electricity to the explosions of mines, guns, 

 &c. 



1. Original form of wire fuze. 



2. Statham fuze. 



3. Platinum wire gun tube and section. 



4. Experimental high tension fuze. 



o. Abel's electric fuze and section. No. 1. 



6. Abel's electric gun tube and section. No. 4. 



7. Abel's platinum wire fuze and section. No. o. 



8. Austrian electric fuze (Von Ebner's) and section. 



9. Abel's submarine fuze and section. No. 2. 



10. Abel's electric detonator (land service) and section. No. 5. 



11. Abel's electric detonator (submarine) and section. No. 7. 



12. Naval electric gun tube and section. 



13. Low tension detonator and section. No. 9. 



Glass case and printed labels. War Office. 



1576e. Magnetic Exploder and Fuzes. 



The British Telegraph Manufactory, Limited. 



c. ELECTRO-CHEMICAL APPLICATIONS. 



1730. Application of tlie Electrotype Process to the 

 Reproduction, of Works of Art. 



Messrs. Elkington and Co. 



Reproduction of a medal. This is an object composed of two parts only, 

 viz., the obverse and the reverse. 



</ and b. Moulds in gutta percha, &c. of the obverse and the reverse. 



c and d. Moulds with the copper deposited in them. 



c and/. Copper deposits removed from the moulds. 



//. The two sides or portions of the medal as deposited, soldered together 



ready for finishing. 



k. Electro-deposited copy or reproduction of the medal, gilt or silvered, 

 lleproduction of a small candlestick : 



a. The moulds of the base and two sides of the nozzle in gutta percha, 



&c. 



b. Moulds with tlie copper deposited in them. 



c. d, andy*. Copper deposits of the two sides of the nozzle of the candlestick, 



and the base removed from the moulds. 

 g. The same soldered together and fitted. 

 h. The candlestick silvered and completed. 



1730a. Reproduction of the " Strauss " Tankard. 



South Kensington Museum. 



a. A copy or reproduction complete with fictile ivory body or drum. 



b. Mould of the " drum." 



c. Cast iii fictile ivory. 



d. Moulds with the copper deposited in them. 



