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Repository or model room in 1843
RSA/AD/MA/301/19/54 · Pièce · 1843
Fait partie de Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA)

From an engraving in Charles Knight's London, Vol. 5, 1843, p.357\nThe Library was originally planned by the Adams brothers as the Society's 'Repository' or 'Model Room' where mechanical inventions and agricultural machinery for which prizes had been awarded by the Society were permanently displayed in the 18th century. Now the Benjamin Franklin Room