Model of a Connecting Rod

...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1889

ObjectNumber: NG-MC-1889-50

Wooden model of a short connecting rod of a steam engine, painted black.

The eye for the shaft can be taken apart by removing two bolts that are fastened with pegs: one side comes apart in two halves, the other in three parts.

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'anonymous, Model of a Connecting Rod, Netherlands, c. 1840 - c. 1885', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.245286