Patent Model for Steering Steam Ships
date: label: date made
content: 1853
label: patent date
content: 1853-05-10
name: label: patentee
content: Sickels, Frederick E.
label: inventor
content: Sickels, Frederick E.
notes: label: Description
content: Mechanical engineer Frederck Sickels devoted his career to improving steam engines and advancing their use at sea. He was particularly interested in developing steam-assisted steering, a topic dear to many inventors as ships became larger and heavier through the middle of the nineteenth century. This patent model demonstrates Sickels's idea for a steering apparatus where steam pressure in a pair of cylinders would both control the side-to-side motion of a vessel's rudder but also hold the rudder stationary against the force of the surrounding water.
place: label: associated place
content: United States: New York, New York City
label: associated place
content: United States: New York
topic: label: Subject
content: Maritime
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content: Work and Industry: Maritime
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content: Industry & Manufacturing
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content: America on the Move
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content: Transportation
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content: Invention and the Patent Model
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content: Patent Models
label: Exhibition
content: Inventing In America
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: TR.252595
label: catalog number
content: 252595
label: accession number
content: 49064
label: patent number
content: 9,713
objectType: label: Object Name
content: steamboat, sickels'
label: Object Name
content: steamboat, sickels', model
label: Object Name
content: patent model, steering, steamboat
label: Object Type
content: Patent Model
label: Other Terms
content: steamboat; steamboat, sickels'; patent model, steering, steamboat; Maritime; Side Wheel
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: brass (part material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 1/2 in x 6 5/8 in x 26 1/4 in; 31.75 cm x 16.8275 cm x 66.675 cm