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BRITISH MUSEUM The British Museum photographed in 1857 by Roger Fenton (“The Changing Metropolis,” Gavin Stamp, 1984) Two early examples of building services engineering were the heating of the British Library Reading Room and the arc lighting of the Egyptian Gallery Daylighting of the Egyptian Gallery

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Page 1: BRITISH MUSEUM - CIBSE Heritage Group · 17 Electric light at the British Museum, 1890 In 1889, following pressure in Parliament for the evening opening of the British Museum, £5,000

BRITISH MUSEUM

The British Museum photographed in 1857 by Roger Fenton

(“The Changing Metropolis,” Gavin Stamp, 1984)

Two early examples of building services engineering were the heating of the

British Library Reading Room and the arc lighting of the Egyptian Gallery

Daylighting of the Egyptian Gallery

Page 2: BRITISH MUSEUM - CIBSE Heritage Group · 17 Electric light at the British Museum, 1890 In 1889, following pressure in Parliament for the evening opening of the British Museum, £5,000

Construction of the British Library Reading Room began in

1854 and was completed in 1857

Page 3: BRITISH MUSEUM - CIBSE Heritage Group · 17 Electric light at the British Museum, 1890 In 1889, following pressure in Parliament for the evening opening of the British Museum, £5,000

This drawing by Sir Muirhead Bone shows the interior of the

Reading Room under construction c.1856

The Reading Room was provided with a hot water heating system by

G N Haden in 1858 (“Hadens of Trowbridge,” Ferris, Roberts & Yunnie, 2004

Page 4: BRITISH MUSEUM - CIBSE Heritage Group · 17 Electric light at the British Museum, 1890 In 1889, following pressure in Parliament for the evening opening of the British Museum, £5,000

This drawing of the Reading Room dates from 1897, the year of the founding of the

Institution of Heating & Ventilating Engineers

(Illustrated London News)

Page 5: BRITISH MUSEUM - CIBSE Heritage Group · 17 Electric light at the British Museum, 1890 In 1889, following pressure in Parliament for the evening opening of the British Museum, £5,000

Arc lighting trial in the Egyptian Gallery

(Illustrated London News from”Victorian Science & Engineering Portrayed,”

Kenneth Chew & Anthony Wilson, 1993)

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