Item 72 - Catalogues of exhibitions of models and inventions displayed at the Society's House

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· A Catalogue of Models of Modern Machinery and Improved Recent Inventions, 1848/49\n· A Catalogue of a Collection of Articles Invented, Patented or Registered since the beginning of 1849, 1850\n· A Catalogue of a Collection of Articles Invented, Patented or Registered since the beginning of 1850, 1851\n· A Catalogue of a Collection of Articles Invented, Patented or Registered since October 1851, 1852\n· A catalogue of the Models in the Museum of the Society of Arts, 1851\nTwo printed booklets detailing the models on display within various display cases. Organised into sections, the catalogues give details of the invention, the maker and the date any nature of award given

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Models of inventions had accumulated in the Society's Model Room or Repository since the mid 18th century. Prior to the formation of the Patent Office Museum, the Society had arranged displays of new industrial devices between 1769 and the 1840s. These were disposed of, but a new series started in 1848. At the end of the 1851 Great Exhibition, Henry Cole persuaded exhibitors to donate surplus items and Prince Albert asked Bennett Woodcroft, an engineer and consultant involved mainly with textile machinery and ship propulsion, to organise a display of machinery for later exhibition.

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