Object data
wood, brass, rope and paint
height 58.5 cm × width 22 cm × depth 15.2 cm
anonymous, anonymous
Model of a Pile Driver
Netherlands, United Kingdom, c. 1819
Inscriptions
- label, on the frame: 45 former inventory label
Provenance
...; transferred from the Rijkswerf (Navy dockyard) Rotterdam to the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, 1819;1; transferred to the museum, 1883
Object number: NG-MC-45
Copyright: Public domain
Entry
Demonstration model of a simple piledriver, almost identical to model NG-MC-46 but painted black. The rammer is grasped by a claw and hoisted to the top with a winch with a single gear, the cord running over a single pulley at the top, where it is automatically released and dropped.
In 1819 a model of a piledriver with pincer was part of a shipment of technical objects and models sent by Gerard Moritz Roentgen (1795-1852) from the United Kingdom to the Rotterdam Navy dockyard,2 from whence they were transferred to the Navy Model Room in The Hague.
Piledrivers of this type were also observed by Julius Constantijn Rijk (1787-1854) on his voyage to the United States in the sloop of war Pallas in 1825.3
Literature
J.C. Rijk, Generaal Rapport Z.M. Pallas, s.l. 1825, manuscript with 6 appendices in HSM, inv. no. NII (03144), Bijlage 1, p. 159; J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 45; G.l’E. Turner, Van Marum’s Scientific Instruments in Teyler’s Museum, in E. Lefebvre and J.G. de Bruijn (eds.), Martinus van Marum: Life and Work, 6 vols., vol. 2, Leiden 1973, pp. 127-401, no. 69; R.M. Haubourdin et al., De physique existentie dezes lands. Jan Blanken, inspecteur-generaal van de waterstaat (1755-1838), exh. cat. Amsterdam (Rijksmuseum) 1987, no. 124; A.A. Lemmers, Techniek op schaal. Modellen en het technologiebeleid van de Marine 1725-1885, Amsterdam 1996, pp. 178-79
Citation
J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous or anonymous, Model of a Pile Driver, c. 1819', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.242770
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