Model of a Double-Threaded Archimedean Screw Propeller

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

ObjectNumber: NG-MC-554

Polychromed instruction model of a double-threaded Archimedean screw propeller in a frame, mounted on a base.

The threads make two turns and are divided into blue and white painted segments, with which a simple two-blade propeller can be designed. The screw can be turned by means of the shaft. Its pitch is approximately 11 cm, its diameter 8 cm.

P.N. Rijk was a watchmaker and D. van den Bosch an engineer in the Dutch Navy. According to the archives the model of the double-threaded Archimedean screw that was added to the Navy Model Room should have threads of a different diameter, but a model fitting this description has not been found.¹¹HNA 2.12.01 Min. Marine, Exh. 18/5/1844 N96, 5/10/1844 N69, 21/1/1845 N95, 8/10/1845 N27.

Scale (derived) 1:20.

C. Roest, ‘Het stoomschip Archimedes voor Amsterdam’, Verhandelingen en berigten betrekkelijk het zeewezen (1843), pp. 437-48; H. Huijgens, Handleiding tot de kennis van het stoomwerktuig, Amsterdam 1847, pp. 129 ff., figs. 136-37; J.M. Obreen, Catalogus der verzameling modellen van het Departement van Marine, The Hague 1858, no. 554; G. Doorman, Het Nederlandsch octrooiwezen en de techniek der 19de eeuw, The Hague 1947, pp. 283-84, no. 1576; H.P. Spratt, Handbook of the Collections Illustrating Marine Engineering: Descriptive Catalogue, (London 1953), p. 109, no. 273; J.M. Dirkzwager, ‘Some Aspects of the Development of Screw-Propulsion in the 19th and Early 20th Century’, 4th Lips Propeller Symposium, Drunen 1979, pp. 185-98; A.J. Hoving, Message in a Model: Stories from the Navy Model Room of the Rijksmuseum, Florence, OR 2013, pp. 196-99

J. van der Vliet, 2016, 'attributed to P.N. Rijk and attributed to D. van den Bosch, Model of a Double-Threaded Archimedean Screw Propeller, , 1844', in J. van der Vliet and A. Lemmers (eds.), Navy Models in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.244368