An image showing 'To the President... of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts Manufactures & Commerce. This plate of the New Invented Expedition Crane is humbly Dedicated by...John Webb, the Inventor, October 1764'

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To the President... of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts Manufactures & Commerce. This plate of the New Invented Expedition Crane is humbly Dedicated by...John Webb, the Inventor, October 1764

Print. A working sketch of Webb's Expedition Crane unloading coal from a river barge. The crane was located in a warehouse and was powered by a single horse. The drawing was presented to the President of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts Manufactures & Commerce by the inventor John Webb.

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Object Details

ID:	PAG8290
Type:	Print
Display location:	Not on display
Creator:	Taylor, Isaac
Date made:	Oct 1764
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London
Measurements:	Sheet: 473 x 339 mm; Plate: 460 x 326 mm