• Title
  Lawrence Hargrave - Photographs and drawings of flying and other machines, 1865-1915
• Creator
  Lawrence Hargrave, 1850-1915
• Call number
  PXD 704
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  1865-1915
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs, Architectural and Technical Drawings, Textual Records
• Reference code
  128787
• Issue Copy
  Microfilm : CY 3628, frames 123-455 (PXD 704/1-6). See also 3 selected digitised images opposite.
  
• Physical Description
  18 photographs - albumen
  119 architectural drawings
  Textual Records - printed
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  For biographical information on Lawrence Hargrave see Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol.9, pp.196-198
• Scope and Content
  VOLUME 1
  1865-1878 [early apprentice drawings including designs for stump extractor, card shuffler, various air pumps and gauges, capstan, calipers, pedespedes [early rollerblades], elipseograph and sympalmographs. Also designs for an outrigger yacht, "Phoenix"; various self-propelling boats; and a wooden flap from his shoes for walking on water, ca. 1870] (Call No.: CY 3628, frames 123-326)
  
  VOLUME 2
  1878-1884 [includes designs for an adding machine, 1880, whilst working at the Sydney Observatory; a gear for a self-pulling boat; and drawings of trochoidal motion] (Call No.: CY 3628, frames 327-349)
  
  VOLUME 3
  1884-1893 [includes models of compressed air flying machines and steam engines / photographed by C. Bayliss] (Call No.: CY 3628, frames 350-382)
  
  VOLUME 4
  1893-1899 [includes photographs of cellular kites, Feb 1893; soaring kites; and T. J. Bennett's unfinished flying machine, sent to Hargrave in 1894. Also Hargrave and James Swaine with the kites and other gear used in the kite-lift experiment at Stanwell Park beach, 12 November 1894 / photographed by C. Bayliss; and floor plan of Stanwell House] (Call No.: CY 3628, frames 383-406)
  
  VOLUME 5
  1899-1915 [includes his trimaran float flying machine, 1902; cycloidal wave plotter; and plan of Port Sydney. Also another flying machine based on Hargrave's box kite designs] (Call No.: CY 3628, frames 407-418)
  
  VOLUME 6
  printed [includes diagrams from `The Engineer' and `Engineering' journals, ca. 1873-1874] (Call No.: CY 3628, frames 419-455)
• System of arrangement
  Chronological (arranged by Ian Debenham, Curator of Transport, Powerhouse Museum, October 1996)
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment - Material is fragile. Please issue microfilm.
• Published Information
  Volume 4, number 5 published in:- Our yesterdays : Australian life since 1853 in photographs / arranged by Irma Pearl; with a commentary by Cyril Pearl. London, Angus & Robertson, 1954, p. 124
• General note
  
  Transferred from the Mitchell Library Manuscripts Section (Lawrence Hargrave - Miscellaneous papers, 1881-1914): ML MSS 299X, which see also (microfilm copy: CY 3628, frames 1-122).
  Three maps are included on the same microfilm reel: CY 3628, frames 456-461.
  Preservation microfilm copy made, Nov. 1996.
  Digital order no:Album ID : 823593
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Most drawings annotated and signed at lower edge
  Most photoprints stamped "C. Bayliss, photo. Sydney" at lower edge
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Bayliss, Charles, 1850-1897
  
• Name
  Bennett, T. J.
  Hargrave, Lawrence, 1850-1915
  Swaine, James
  
• Subject
  Adult Males
  
• Topic
  aviators
  inventors
  models
  technical drawings
  
• Place
  Stanwell Park (N.S.W.)
  
• Exhibited in
  
  Lawrence Hargrave - Dalgety Walkway - State Library of New South Wales (1 February - 31 May, 1997)
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE972694

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