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Wright, Elsie

1901 - 1988

1896-1947, scientific instrument and radio manufacturer, Cambridge

W G Pye and Company Limited

1896 - 1947

Double focus X-ray tube

Radiomedicine

1896

Model of Yarrow boiler as fitted in warships of the Chilian Navy

Marine Engines

1903

English lever reversing pinion pocket watch with dial

Time Measurement

1900

Gypsy camp

Photographs

c. 1890

A view of Ai-Todor bay from Princess Irina's Estate

Photographs

July 1914

Quadruple expansion launch steam engine of the condensing type

Marine Engines

1898

Moy and Bastie 35m Patent Cinematograph Camera

Cinematography

1909-1910

Corona folding portable typewriter, 1912

Printing & Writing

1912

Replica of the Parsons experimental "Turbinia" model

Marine Engines

1894-1910

Advertisement for Kinemacolor

Cinematography

c. 1911

Brougham

Art

1903

Abel-Pensky's flash point apparatus. No.1534.

Experimental Chemistry

c. 1911

SE5A fighter, 1917.

Aeronautics

1917

Gas alert rattle, England, 1917

Wellcome (general)

1917

Black glassy slag for crushing and washing, from t

Metallurgy

before 1889

Early-type Singer safety bicycle

Road Transport

1888-1890

C. F. Casella & Co. Rain gauge, 1908

Meteorology

1908

Prince Bonaparte's collection of elements

Experimental Chemistry

1801-1892 (prepared)

W.E. Teale & Co. Ltd miner's s

Coal Mining

c. 1911

Field surgical pannier set in case

Surgery

1905

active 1900-1960s, manufacturer of electrical measuring equipment, Hendon, England

Everett, Edgcumbe and Company Limited

1905 - 1968

Two-power artillery periscope

Optics

1917

Pearson A type fire detector, 1907

Firefighting

1907

Tartar Mosque, Kokkos

Photographs

April 1914

Standard resistance, one Board of Trade ohm, by El

Electricity and Magnetism

1890-1895

Workers in the Vineyards tying up the Vines

Photographs

November 1913 to July 1914

Portable propeller pitchometer and diagram

Marine Engines

1896-1912

Firgrove Mill Steam Engine

Motive Power

1907

Improved Motiograph projector Model 1-A

Cinematography

1911

Weather forecaster ready reckoner, 1915

Meteorology

1915

Box magazine plate camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inch plates. Rouch instantaneous doublet lens No 7023 with 4 Waterhouse stops, Thornton Pickard Roller Blind shutter built in behind lens 15/25/40/60/80, released by pneumatic tube (perished). Two reflecting finders with covers. Sliding lens cover, bag type plate changer built in with 12 metal plate holders. Sliding body focusing. W.W. rouch. 1888.

Rouch's Eureka Detective Camera

Photographic Technology

1888

Tank wagon, North Eastern Railway, Shell-Mex and BP Ltd saddle-mounted oil tank wagon, No 512, tank capacity 2047 gallons, built by Darlington Wagon & Engineering Company for the North Central Wagon Company and registered with the North Eastern Railway in 1889.

Tank wagon, North Eastern Railway - Shell-Mex and BP Ltd

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1889

Kollmann-type urethral dilator

Surgery

1901-1915

Gramophone by HMV, 1897.

Sound Reproduction

1897

Pathé Kok 28mm projector

Cinematography

1908-1912

Electromagnetic (e/m) cathode ray tube, by Sir Joseph John Thomson, Cambridge, England, 1896. Part of the J.J. Thomson's original e/m cathode ray tube apparatus, for measuring the velocity of the cathode rays and the ratio of the mass of the carriers to the charge carried by them.

J J Thomson's Electromagnetic Tube used in the Discovery of the Electron, about 1896

Nuclear Physics

1896

Maskelyne typewriter, c1890.

Printing & Writing

c. 1890

Prestwich cine camera used by Herbert Ponting

Cinematography

1910

Surgical instrument set, Royal Army Medical Corps

Surgery

1917

Box containing ampoules of Strophanthus extract, England, 1917

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1917

GBN toy magic lantern

Cinematography

1905

The Grange (Mr Cutlack's house), Littleport

Photographs

1902-12-17

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE

Greig Smith-type artery forceps, London, 1895-1902

Surgery

1895-1902

Woman reading

Photographs

c. 1890

Portable Aitken type Dust Counter, 1900-1908

Meteorology

1900-1908

Edison Kinetophone (or Phonokinetoscope); Kinetoscope with cylinder phonograph, an early attempt at creating a sound-film system; early motion picture exhibition device, designed for films to be viewed individually through an aperture on the top of the cabinet.

Edison Kinetophone (or Phonokinetoscope)

Cinematography

1894

Stereo Hawkeye Model No 2 camera

Photographic Technology

c. 1904-1907