Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,718 pages of information and 247,131 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

1851 Great Exhibition: Official Catalogue: Class VII.: R. Turner

From Graces Guide

7. TURNER, R., Hammersmith, Dublin.

Model (scale, inch to the foot) of the segmental curved patent iron roof at the London and North Western Railway station, Lime Street, Liverpool. The area, roofed over, extends from the façade in Lime Street, to the viaduct, over which Hotham Street passes; and from the new offices to the parcel offices on the opposite side; the extreme length is 374 feet, and the breadth 153 feet, in one span.

Model (scale, inch to the foot) of section of the great iron and glass palm house, in the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. The building contains upwards of 40,300 superficial feet of glass, or nearly an acre. The total length of the building is 362 feet 6 inches, the centre portion being 137 feet 6 inches long, and 100 feet wide, and 69 feet high to the top of the lantern light, the wings are each 112 feet 6 inches long, and 50 feet high. It is heated by hot water, on an improved principle.

Brass model (scale, 1/5 inch to the foot) submitted to His Majesty the King of Prussia, for a winter garden at Berlin, to cover half an English acre.

Model (scale, 1/5 inch to the foot) of the winter garden, in iron and glass, curvilinear form, in part erected for the London Botanic Society, at their garden in the Regent's Park.

Model (scale, 1/2 inch to a foot) of a curved iron roof for a wet dock, sufficient to cover a man of war, in full sail, on entering for examination and repair previous to being sent out to sea.

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