Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections in the Science Museum, South Kensington

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Excerpt from Illustrated Catalogue of the Collections in the Science Museum, South Kensington: With Descriptive and Historical Notes, Machine ToolsThe Science Museum, with its Collections and Library, aims at affording illustration and exposition in the fields of mathematical, physical, and chemical science, as well as. Their applications to astronomy, geophysics, engineering, and to the arts and industries generally. To that end the Museum includes objects which are of historical interest as marking important stages in development and others which are typical of the applications of science to current practice.A Museum of Science was contemplated as an integral part Of the Science and Art Department from its beginning in 1853, and in 1857 collections illustrating foods, animal products, examples of structures and building materials, and educational apparatus, were brought together and placed on exhibition.The first of the Engineering Collections, that of Marine Construe tion, was formed in 1864, when the Royal School of Naval Archi tecture was established at South Kensington, and the ship models belonging to the Admiralty were transferred to the Museum from Somerset House where they had been previously. This collection of ships of war was of great historical interest, and with the assistance of private donors and by purchase it was rapidly increased by the addition of many models of mercantile ships as well as of later ships of war, with the result that when the Admiralty removed their models to the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, in 1873, an important collection still remained at South Kensington.Engineering and Manufactures were first included in 1867, from which time the development of this portion of the Museum advanced steadily, but the transfer of the Museum of the Patent Office to the Department Of Science and Art in 1883 added to the collection many machines of the highest interest in the history of invention and made it one of prime importance.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.