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Adana 'Eight Five' printing machine

Model of a Lever Escapement on a mahogany stand

Components for model Waygood-Otis Passenger Electric Lift. Including grey Lift COP (Car Operating Panel)

Model of a Canoe hollowed from a tree trunk

Transparency, 12"x10", of fish tail gas burner

One model of a Norse Whale-boat

Two tuning forks

Diorama Showing a View at Marble Arch at night, with 1935 Lighting

1930

Aeolian Organ

Diorama illustrating flint mining

Model of Post Windmill.

1928-1930

Mechanical-advantage demonstration with pulley block and weight.

1932

Mechanical-advantage demonstration with pulley block and weight.

1932

Diorama, "Street Lighting in the 1960s"

1969

Transparency, 12"x10", of upright incandescent gas burner

Working model of an electric passenger lift.

1924

Diorama illustrating Transport in 1850-1900

Diorama illustrating Transport in the Modern Age

Model of steam engine, sectioned

Glass faced skeleton clock.

1937-1938

Wooden model of Tallow Dip and iron holder, with illuminated wick

Moonstone Electric Shade, with gallery (for electric filament lamp)

Electronic Reation Timer.

One model of Wheatstone's 5-needle telegraph

Model of a Man riding on a log

Model of a Dug-out Canoe with it sides and ends built up

World Clock for Northern Hemisphere.

Diorama illustrating an Early Electrically Lit Street

Diorama - Street Scene, 1750, Temple Bar

1933

Model illustrating use of Firebrand

Diorama - A Kitchen of about 1830

Mechanical-advantage demonstration with windlass, pulley block and weight

1932

Diorama illustrating Graco-Roman Chariot or wagon

Model illustrating use of Arc Lighting:- "Dockside Warehouse"

Model illustrating use of Arc Lighting

Small 26-second sand-glass

Small 26-second sand-glass

Large 2-hour sand-glass by Henry Hughes & Son Ltd., Hainault, England, 1931

Large 2-hour sand-glass by Henry Hughes & Son Ltd.

1931

D.W.S. Permanent Jack without handle. With 28 lb square weight

D.W.S. permanent jack

Liverpool jug thrown as it comes from the wheel

Liverpool jug thrown as it comes from the wheel

Painting, 15ft long and 5ft high, in distemper, on board, representing a "Dockyard Scene, with Liner & Cranes"

Painting, 15ft long and 5ft high

Magnetic speedometer by Smiths, 1958, with flexible drive and separate magnet unit

Magnetic speedometer by Smiths

1958

Victorian Table Fountain, Storer's patent (Hero's invention) 1870

Victorian Table Fountain

1870

Model of Wankel engine

Model of Wankel engine

Van de Graaff generator

Van de Graaff generator

Model illustrating use of modern Electrical Illumination:- "Studio"

Model illustrating use of modern Electrical Illumination:- "Studio"

Early Bell's double pole telephone instrument with trembler bell (mouthpiece missing) (a new mouthpiece fitted)

Early Bell's double pole telephone instrument

Motor car Jack, type XJ 87 with 14lb square weight

Motor car Jack, type XJ 87 with 14lb square weight

Demonstration model to illustrate the principle of the sundial

Demonstration model to illustrate the principle of the sundial

One model of early telephone switchboard. With this is 1915-222 - early telephone.

One model of early telephone switchboard

"Regloscope" electronic watch timer, with microphone. Made by British Watch Timers Ltd.

"Regloscope" electronic watch timer

Vertical Wind Tunnel used by the late Sir Thomas Stanton in experiments to determine wind pressures on plane surfaces, 1904. In two sections each about 5'9" high by base 6'6" x 5', with balance for measuring pressures

Vertical Wind Tunnel used by the late Sir Thomas Stanton

1904