Model of a Salt Water Distiller

...; transferred from the Ministerie van Marine (Department of the Navy), The Hague, to the museum, 1883

ObjectNumber: NG-MC-578

Model of a salt water distiller for drinking water, consisting of a semi-cylindrical container with a chimney. The model is painted black. The chimney is extended with a brass pipe. In the bottom a round hole is made. Inside three loose gratings are hung at three different levels.

B. van Hüssem was a ship surgeon.¹¹J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 578.

Scale unknown.

B. van Hüssem, Middelen om het water ... volkomen te zuiveren, als het stinkend en bedorven is, Amsterdam 1799; J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 578

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'B. van Hüssem, Model of a Salt Water Distiller, Netherlands, 1820 - 1855', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244393