Credit: © The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.10798

    Railway signalling device

    Date
    1857
    Creator
    Unknown, Photographer
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 204mm
    width (print): 135mm
    Subject
    Content object
    Description
    Stereoscopic view of a bell signalling device used by the South Eastern Railway Company, England (est.1836) and adapted for hazard or breakdown signalling.

    Unpublished illustration, figure 3 from the manuscript version of the paper “A system of train signalling by which also disabled trains may telegraph for assistance without the aid of portable apparatus” by Charles V Walker, the text abstracted in Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, vol.8 (1856-1857), pp.418-421.

    Charles Vincent Walker FRS (1812-1882), British electrical engineer was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1855.
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