Beard's pressure gauge and regulators for oxygen and hydrogen cylinders

PART OF:
The Kodak Museum Collection
Made:
1880s in London
maker:
Robert Royou Beard

Beard's pressure gauge and regulators for oxygen and hydrogen cylinders. Oxygen gauge calibrated 0-180 atmospheres with Beard's patent regulator 17633. Hydrogen gauge calibrated 0-180 atmospheres with Beard's patent regulator 17633. In wooden box.

Robert Royou Beard was a British inventor and manufacturer of magic lantern accessories. He developed a regulator which held the gas pressure in dissolving lanterns at the correct levels as well as the Eclipse self-centring slide carrier, which allowed slides to be changed without the operator having to lean over the lantern and also ensured that the screen was never blank.

Details

Category:
Cinematography
Collection:
Kodak Collection
Object Number:
1990-5036/259
type:
pressure gauge and regulator
credit:
The Kodak Collection at the National Media Museum, Bradford

Parts

Beard's oxygen pressure gauge and regulator

Beard's oxygen pressure gauge and regulator

Beard's oxygen pressure gauge and regulator. Oxygen gauge calibrated 0-180 atmospheres with Beard's patent regulator 17633.

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Robert Royou Beard was a British inventor and manufacturer of magic lantern accessories. He developed a regulator which held the gas pressure in dissolving lanterns at the correct levels as well as the Eclipse self-centring slide carrier, which allowed slides to be changed without the operator having to lean over the lantern and also ensured that the screen was never blank.

Object Number:
1990-5036/259/1
type:
pressure gauge and regulator
Beard's hydrogen pressure gauge and regulator

Beard's hydrogen pressure gauge and regulator

Beard's hydrogen pressure gauge and regulator. Hydrogen gauge calibrated 0-180 atmospheres with Beard's patent regulator 17633.

More

Robert Royou Beard was a British inventor and manufacturer of magic lantern accessories. He developed a regulator which held the gas pressure in dissolving lanterns at the correct levels as well as the Eclipse self-centring slide carrier, which allowed slides to be changed without the operator having to lean over the lantern and also ensured that the screen was never blank.

Object Number:
1990-5036/259/2
type:
pressure gauge and regulator
Wooden box for pressure gauge and regulators

Wooden box for pressure gauge and regulators

Wooden box for Beard pressure gauge and regulators

More

Robert Royou Beard was a British inventor and manufacturer of magic lantern accessories. He developed a regulator which held the gas pressure in dissolving lanterns at the correct levels as well as the Eclipse self-centring slide carrier, which allowed slides to be changed without the operator having to lean over the lantern and also ensured that the screen was never blank.

Materials:
wood (unidentified)
Object Number:
1990-5036/259/3
type:
box