Spoiled carriage design
Date
ca.1665
Creator
Thomas Blount (1599 - 1678) , Landowner
Object type
Archive reference number
Manuscript page number
p152v
Material
Dimensions
height (Page): 301mm
width (Page): 385mm
width (Page): 385mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Side elevation of a design for a four-wheeled coupé-style carriage. This version is incomplete and struck through. Several pinholes indicate that the basic proportions of the work were used as a template for the completed drawing, which appears on the reverse. This should be regarded as a preparatory work and is also, therefore, a mirror image of the final illustration. From the papers of Robert Boyle.
Transcription
Headed: ‘This will not doe because its [illegible] the old way [illegible] bord’.
The standard bearing the carrg. must stand on the bord and not on the [illegible].’
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
The standard bearing the carrg. must stand on the bord and not on the [illegible].’
Transcribed by the Making Visible project
Object history
Thomas Blount discussed carriage designs at meetings of the Royal Society during the period 1664-65. On 8 March 1665, ‘Col. Blount proposed the improvement of the French chariot, by taking off the burthen from the horse, by means of two small wheels before, retaining the long springy boards’ (Birch 2:22).
By 29 March 1665, ‘Col. Blount brought in two models of chariots, one with two, the other with four wheels, of which he had tried the easiness of moving them by bullets upon different grounds; the particulars of which he gave in writing. His paper was ordered to be kept, and the operator was directed to make some models of chariots for trials with them' (Birch 2:27).
Several Fellows of the Royal Society, notably Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn, left accounts of participating in Blount’s carriage demonstrations. Blount’s papers on a chariot trial (1665) and on the numbers of wheels for carriages (1667) are preserved as Royal Society Classified Papers: Cl.P/3i/020-21.
By 29 March 1665, ‘Col. Blount brought in two models of chariots, one with two, the other with four wheels, of which he had tried the easiness of moving them by bullets upon different grounds; the particulars of which he gave in writing. His paper was ordered to be kept, and the operator was directed to make some models of chariots for trials with them' (Birch 2:27).
Several Fellows of the Royal Society, notably Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn, left accounts of participating in Blount’s carriage demonstrations. Blount’s papers on a chariot trial (1665) and on the numbers of wheels for carriages (1667) are preserved as Royal Society Classified Papers: Cl.P/3i/020-21.
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