Faraday to the Principal Officers and Commissioners of His Majesty’s Navy   19 February 1829

Royal Institution | Feb. 19th. 1829.

To the Principal Officers & Commissioners of His Majesty’s Navy

Honorable Gentleman

I am directed by the Committee of Management for the Friday Evenings at the Royal Institution respectfully to apply to you for the favour of the loan of certain models of the Block Machinery at Portsmouth at present in the model room of the Navy Board1[.]

The object is to illustrate the various beautiful mechanical contrivances introduced into that apparatus by Mr. Brunel at one of the Friday Evening Meetings and if the privilege of using them may be granted it will be conferring a high favour on the Members of the Institution which will not fail of being fully appreciated[.]

I have the honor to be | Honorable Gentlemen | Your most Obedient Humble Servant | M. Faraday Secretary


Endorsed: 20th Feby 1829 | The Board have no objection to comply with the application of Mr. Faraday RS HL JT2

If there is no risk of injury I conclude the Board will feel pleasure in paying attention to the wishes of the Institution. | I conclude Mr Brunel would have no objection to the Exhibition of the model TBM3

Done with as it is the intention of Mr Faraday to have the models on Monday next JK4 29 Apr

1
Faraday’s Friday Evening Discourse “On Brunel’s Block Machine”, 8 May 1829. See “Arts & Sciences | Royal Institution”, Lit.Gaz., 16 May 1829, p.320.
2
Respectively Robert Seppings, Henry Legge (Deputy Comptroller of the Navy Board, 1829-1830, Collinge (1978), 118), Joseph Tucker (a Surveyor of the Navy, 1813-1831, Collinge (1978), 145).
3
Thomas Byam Martin (1773-1854, DNB). Comptroller of the Navy Board.
4
John Knowles.

Bibliography

COLLINGE, J.M. (1978): Navy Board Officials, 1660-1832, London.

Please cite as “Faraday0391,” in Ɛpsilon: The Michael Faraday Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/faraday/letters/Faraday0391