Shelfmark

dut.1

Maker

Maud Antoinette Duthoit

Subjects

astronomy; astronomical instruments (orrery; orreries; tellurium; telluria)

Title

No. 7264 A.D. 1914: Improvements in or relating to Orreries, Telluria and the like

Description

Patent record, including provisional and complete specification. Heading: ‘No. 7264’, Stamp of Her Majesty’s Government, ‘A.D. 1914’.
‘Date of application, 23rd March, 1914.
Complete specification left, 23rd Sept, 1914 -- Accepted, 18th Mar, 1915.’

Provisional specification: Declaration by Maud Antoinette Duthoit concerning the purpose and feature of the invention.
‘The object of the present invention is the construction of an orrery and tellurion or the like which, while suited for individual use or for class instruction, and correctly planned from a scientific standpoint, is nevertheless simple, cheap, compact and readily portable’.
The orrery or tellurium is attached to a removable pillar forming the centre about which the earth turns, which is designed to project upwards from an astronomical chart.

A complete specification gives more details of the instrument.

A fold-out illustration of the instrument is provided, dimensions 330 x 297 mm.

The Chartered Patent Agents submitting the application are: Boult, Wade & Tennant, 111 & 112, Hatton Garden, London EC.

Printed for his Majesty’s Stationery Office by Love & Malcomson, Ltd. - 1915

Earliest Date

1914

Latest Date

1915

Pages

5

Address

67 Granville Park, Lewisham, Kent (address of Maud Antoinette Duthoit)

Other Makers

Cat no

7264

Contents List

Hardback

Prices

Index

Illustrations

Yes

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