Transport and Communication
Here can be found material on all forms of transport from steam engines to trams and sailing ships. Transport engineering and famous engineers such as Brunel may also be found here.
Choose one of the following items:
- Brunel
- A2 colour poster containing brief biography of Brunel together with his achievements, phot ...
- Froude's Apparatus for Testing Hull Shapes
- This view shows shows the length of the building and water tank in which models were teste ...
- What this Machine Did
- This view shows the ship model testing tank at Chelston Cross. Froude used it to estimate ...
- Tank Carriage at the ship design centre in Chelston Cross]]
- The carriage and drive mechanism in the water tank, centre for the development of safe shi ...
- [A cross section sketch of the building and tank at Chelston Cross]
- A cross section sketch of the building and tank. ...
- [A picture of the mechanism controling the carriage in the tank]
- A picture showing the structure of the drive mechanism for the carriage in the tank at Che ...
- [Sketch diagram of engineered parts for the ship design tank]
- The sketch diagram of part of the equipment used in the ship design testing tank. ...
- [The sketch diagram of cross sections used in the ship design testing tank]
- The sketch diagram of cross sections used in the ship design testing tank built by William ...
- Froude's Ship Model Testing Tank
- This is a drawing of the tank, (built in 1871).The Admiralty were really tight with fundin ...
