Marine Engineering
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of approximately 340 marine engineering items. These date from 1812 to 1965. This collection comprises complete ship engines, engine parts and associated equipment, engine and boiler models, as well as archival material. The most significant area of the collection relates to early steam shipping and includes the original cylinder of the paddle steamer Comet of 1812, along with complete side-lever engines from the PS Comet II of 1821 and PS Industry of 1828. Another pioneering era of steamship technology is represented by the steam turbine engines for the TSS King Edward, the first commercial turbine steamship in the world. Diesel and boiler technology includes a Gardiner Serpollet engine and an anti-corrosive boiler feed. A particularly noteworthy marine engine model is a one-quarter scale model of a steeple engine for the steamship Simla, made by David Napier and exhibited in the Paris International Exhibition in 1855. The collection also boasts an important group of engineering drawings produced by Robert Napier & Sons, many of them drafted by David Kirkaldy, as well as additional items including various photographs, engine manuals and other ephemera.
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