Machinery

NOTES: Housed in the distinctive green-domed building adjacent to Madame Tussauds waxwork museum, the London Planetarium offered shows relating to space and astronomy. It controversially closed as a planetarium in 2006.

NOTES: The designers associated with the C.O.I. for the various sections of this exhibition included: Peter Moro, Robin Day, Ronald Avery, Ian Chapman, Messrs. Davy and Chapman, Ronald Dickens, Gordon Cullen, Pauline Behr, W.F. Manthorpe. Misha Black was the Supervising Designer, James Holland the Chief Designer, and R. J. Harrison, Chief Architect, C.O.I.

NOTES: This drawing was made in preparation for publication in Newton's 'The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio', (London, 1771; 2nd edition, 1791), in which Vitruvian principles were applied to conjectural reconstructions of Classical buildings and later constructions. These are preliminary studies for figure CXVII (2nd edition).

SOURCE: Charles Louis Gustave Eck, Traite de construction en poteries et fer, a l'usage des batimens civils, industriels et militaires (Paris, 1836), plate 27

NOTES: The Society of Engineers was founded in 1854 and was absorbed into the Institution of Incorporated Engineers in 2005 and from the following year into the Institution of Engineering and Technology. The membership certificate shows a heavy industrial scene on the south bank of the Thames.