Patent Model - Improvement in Apparatus for Vessels to Indicate their Locality when they Sink and to Supply a Means of Raising Them
Maker and role
Joseph Hyde (b.1821, d.1900), Patentee
Production date
Aug 21 1855
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Object detail
Media/Materials
Wood, rubber, brass
Measurements
10 1/2 x 10 x 8" (26.7 x 25.4 x 20.3cm)
Description
Hyde's patent "consists in the employment of a buoy or buoys connected with the vessel or with a safe or other article within the vessel by means of a cord or cords or equivalent therefore, so arranged that when the vessel sinks such buoy or buoys shall be free to float on the surface of the water and retain its connection with the vessel or article within the vessel, thus indicating the locality of the sunken vessel..." (Patent Number 13,463)
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Object number
2015.14.150a,b
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