1851 Great Exhibition: Official Catalogue: Class VIII.: R. W. Laurie
195. LAURIE, R. W., 8 Carlton Place, Lauriestan, Glasgow — Inventor and Patentee.
Various articles for the preservation of life and property at sea. Buoyant mattresses, mattresses forming boats, cushions, pillows, bolsters, and portmanteaus, constructed to support from one to ten persons in water.
Life-floats and belts, self-inflating, without valves.
Model of a life-boat, fitted with self-acting valves, and traversing shot-ballast. Should the boat, by accident, be upset, it will instantly right itself on either side, and empties itself of water in one minute. Constructed by Messrs. Forrester and Co., boat-builders, Limehouse.
Model of an apparatus called the "Otter," for manoeuvring vessels at sea.
The two latter inventions are patented by the exhibitor.