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Original free sample of Bayer 205, suramin powder, Germany, 1926

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1926

Original free sample, in bottle, of Bayer 205, suramin powder, by Friedrich Bayer and Co., Germany, 1926

Bicycle oil lamp

Road Transport

1923

Oil lamp for bicycles, ebony finish, 'Silver King' made by Joseph Lucas Ltd, 1923

BBC 'Bijou' Crystal Set Receiver Type 6

Television

1923-07

BBC Radiola 'Bijou' crystal set Type 6, 1923. Made by British Thomson-Houston Co Ltd, Rugby. Serial No R23301.

Jos-Pe colour camera Uka model (professional)

Photographic Technology

c. 1925

Jos-Pe tri-colour camera, Uka model (professional). For 9 x 12cm plates. Fitted with a Jos Pe Cassar lens F:18cm f/3. Shutter - 1/50sec, B/T, Serial No 161367 lens. Simultaneous focusing on all three backs. Beamsplittter behind lens. OV Nr 276. The Jos-Pe tri-color camera produced three monochromatic 9x12cm negatives on a single exposure that were made through red, green and blue filters. When they were printed together they produced a colour print.

Peter Pan 'box camera' folding gramophone, 1924.

Sound Reproduction

1924

Peter Pan 'box camera' folding gramophone, 1924.

"Dreadnought" bookmaker's bag

Time Measurement

c. 1925

"Dreadnought" bookmaker's bag by the Richmond Time Recording Co., Classic Works, Howard St., Birmingham. Patented in 1925

Bank of 50 Keith Line Switches, 1920-1925

Telecommunications

1920-1925

Bank of 50 Keith Line Switches recovered from a rural exchange in New Zealand, made by the Automatic Electric Company, Chicago, 1920-1925. Together with spare plunger, two spare line backs, and two pre-2000 two-motion selectors

Austin Seven motor car, 1922.

Road Transport

1922

Austin Seven hp motor car, 1922.

Steam locomotive, named Super D

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1921

Steam locomotive, London & North Western Railway, G2 class Super D, 0-8-0 No 485, designed by Beames, built at Crewe in 1921, withdrawn in 1959.

Richard Johnson, Clapham & Mor

Coal Mining

c. 1920

Richard Johnson, Clapham & Morris Ltd safety lamp, c. 1920 brass

The mechanical substitute for the arms, United Kingdom, 1919

Orthopaedics

1919

A mechanical substitute for the arms, 1919.

Elderly couple with female 'spirit'

Photographs

c. 1920

A portrait photograph of a seated elderly couple, possibly taken by William Hope in about 1920. A young woman's face appears as if floating above the sitters, draped in a cloak.

Gordon Dobson’s original ozone spectrograph

Meteorology

1924

Spectrograph designed by Gordon M. B. Dobson in 1924 and used by him at his home laboratory in Boars Hill, Oxfordshire for the measurement of atmospheric ozone. The instrument detected ultraviolet (UV) light reaching Earth’s surface from the Sun. Because ozone in the stratosphere absorbs UV wavelengths, UV intensity indicates ozone concentrations. The instrument used a chlorine and bromine vapour filter to absorb visible light. A Féry prism and optical wedge produced a spectrum on a photographic plate. The intensity of spectral lines at ozone-absorbing UV wavelengths was measured relative to a reference wavelength unaffected by ozone.

Statue of goddess Kuan Yin, goddess of mercy and maternity, China, before 1922

Asian Medicine

before 1922

Wooden statue of Kuan Yin, goddess of mercy and maternity, represented as pregnant, Chinese

Ensign Rollfilm/Plate camera

Photographic Technology

c. 1920

Folding camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches. Fitted with Ross combinable lens F: 5 1/4 inches f/5.9-32, No. 102860. Front component F: 9 1/2 inches, f/11, rear 8 inches f/11. Compur shutter 1/2/5/10/25/50/100/200/B/T. Rack and pinion focusing, double extension. Lever rising, sliding cross front. Brilliant relfecting rotating finder with level. Back with removable panel to permit use of focusing screen and single metal plateholders. With focusing screen. HOughtons Limited.

Two thorns used for smallpox inoculation, Palestine, 1921

Public Health & Hygiene

1921

2 thorns mounted on cardboard with photograph and information about their use by medicine men in smallpox epidemic to vaccinate patients in Dawaimeh, Palestine, 1921

Electrola type 4A gramophone, c. 1925.

Sound Reproduction

1925

Electrola type 4A gramophone, c. 1925.

Roger's Vitalator

Domestic Appliances

1925

Roger's Vitalator Electromedical instrument by Ideal Home Electrical Appliances Ltd, 1925.

The British Laundry Marking Machine

Water Supply & Sanitation

around 1922

Laundry marking machine, 'the British Marking Machine', made by A & C Jenner in Mitcham, Surrey, around 1922. Used at Moorside Laundry in Eccles from around 1922 to 1960.

Tizer bottle

Food & Drink Industry

1925

Bottle for 'Tizer', 1925

Hilger wavelength spectroscope, with camera, London, England, 1919

Laboratory Medicine

1919

Hilger wavelength spectrometer, with camera, by A. Hilger, London, 1918-1920

Burndept 'Ethodyne' superheterodyne receiver, 1926

Radio Communication

1926

Burndept 'Ethodyne' superheterodyne receiver, with two frame aerials, made by Burndept Limited, probably Blackheath, London, England, 1925

Debrie Le Parvo Model T Cine Camera

Cinematography

1925

Debrie Le Parvo Model T cine camera, No 6619 Series 12. Cine camera for 35mm film in internal 1000 foot magazines. Lens missing. Bayonet mount, couplings for focusing and aperture. Drum shutter. Gate swings over for critical focusing through lens system on camera top. Hand turned or external drive. Turns footage and frame counter. Slot for matte. Film punch. Disc shutter, external adjustment. Piped oiling system. Fitted with Cooke Speed Panchro lens F:40mm f/2-16, Serial No 214559 (1990-5036/3552). Andre Debrie.

Working model of an electric passenger lift.

Childrens Gallery

1924

Working model of a Waygood-Otis Passenger Electric Lift, scale 1 to 12, unsigned, United Kingdom, 1924

Bell from Cable Ship 'Faraday', 1923

Telecommunications

1923

Bell from CS Faraday, sunk 1941, made by Palmer's Shipbuilding and Iron Company, Hebburn, England, 1923

Intelligence test, Chicago, United States, 1915-1925

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

c.1920

A wooden form board with ten depressions, each to be filled with a single piece, by C. H. Stoelting Co., Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A., c. 1920. See note. (BPS Inv. No. 0150.)

Little Imp gas radiator fire, about 1920

Gas Industry

1920-1925

'Little Imp' gas radiator fire, 1920-1925.

Ernemann Box Camera

Photographic Technology

1919

Roll film camera by Ernemann.

'GECophone' radio crystal detector and headphones

Radio Communication

1925

'GECophone' radio crystal detector set no.1 made by G.E.C. Coventry, Peel Conner Works c.1922, with headphones.

'The Mayfair' Foldable Camera

Photographic Technology

1920-1925

'The Mayfair' foldable roll-film camera, made by Houghton-Butcher Manufacturing Company Limited. Includes leather case and shutter release cable.

Ensign Cupid Camera

Photographic Technology

1923

Ensign Cupid Camera made by Houghton-Butcher Manufacturing Co. Ltd. London. T-Shaped box camera for 120 film 2 1/4" x 1 3/4" single lens fixed aperture T/I shutter, cocked by rod. Collapsing frame finder, black crackle finish. Patent No 194897 and 207637.

"Adoro" Camera

Photographic Technology

1920-1925

"Adoro" drop-bed folding plate camera made by Contessa-Nettel AG, with "Compur" shutter and Carl Zeiss lens.

Crossley gas engine

Motive Power

c.1920

Gas engine, made by Crossley Brothers Ltd, Openshaw, Manchester, c.1920. Originally used to generate electricity at Nantwich Gas Works. No 108885, B.H.32 at 325 R.P.H. Includes archive material documented in Adlib.

The Cine Kodak camera

Cinematography

1923-

The Cine Kodak camera. Hand turned cine camera for 16mm film, 100 foot reels. Fitted with a Kodak anastigmat lens F:25mm f/3.5-16 No.1673. Hand turned, 2 turns per second for 16fps. Provision for attachment of slow motion or electric drive accessories. Direct vision optical finder with automatic parallax compensation. Aperture and focusing adjustable from camera back. Rotating footage counter geared to drive. Claw and single sprocket drive. Spring flap lens cover. Nameplate missing from front. Eastman Kodak, 1923. Serial Number 00697.

Three people with two spirits

Photographs

c. 1920

A photograph of a man and two women, possibly taken by William Hope in about 1920. Two faces appear around the group - one, an elderly person, and the other that of a younger woman shrouded in a cloak.

Milne-Shaw seismograph no. 33, c. 1925

Geophysics

c. 1925

Part of Milne-Shaw seismograph no. 33, made by John Johnson Shaw, West Bromwich, UK, and owned by the Safety in Mines Research Board, c. 1925

ATCO Lawnmower of about 1925

Agricultural Engineering

1925

ATCO Lawnmower of C 1925 with rake on the drive and plate clutch; first in the Cope collection, inspiring the youngest boy to become an engineer

London Midland & Scottish Railway horse-drawn dray

Road Vehicles (Railway)

1923

Horse-drawn dray, London Midland & Scottish Railway, flat dray LMS No.15554, with rubber tyres.

Medal Presented to John Alcock

Aeronautics

1919-1920

Medal presented to John Alcock by the Royal Aero Club.

Electric room heater

Domestic Appliances

c.1920

Electric room heater made by the General Electric Co. Ltd.

veracity pocket watch

Railway Timepieces

1925

Pocket watch, Inscribed 'Veracity Watch. J.N. Masters, Rye. Made in England', silver, Roman face, scratched inside "Layton 17.6.25" (belonged to driver George Layton who drove the Flying Scotsman). Overall: 50.8 mm x 76.2 mm x 12.7 mm.

Pathe Baby Cine Camera With Motor

Cinematography

1926

Pathe Baby Cine Camera With Motor. Cine camera for 9.5mm film chargers. H. Rousel Kynor lens f/3.5-14 No.55870. Attached French made clockwork motor. Single speed with meter counter. Optical frame finder. No. 035887. Continuous, Paris. Originally hand-cranked, this is fitted with a French-made Motrix single speed clockwork motor attachment. This could expose less than half the film at one winding. The camera has a folding optical frame finder and a metre counter.

Steam locomotive, named Sir Lamiel

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1925

Steam locomotive, Southern Railway, King Arthur class 4-6-0 No 777 "Sir Lamiel", designed by R.E.L. Maunsell, built by North British Locomotive Company in 1925, withdrawn in 1961.

Creed No. 10 Undulator Receiver, 1925

Telecommunications

1925

No. 10 Undulator Receiver, manufactured by Creed and Company Limited, Croydon, London, England, 1925

John Logie Baird's original experimental television apparatus, 1925-1926

Radio Communication

1925-1926

Transmitting portion of original television experimental apparatus, created and used by John Logie Baird, with a dummy head of "Stookie / Stooky Bill". 1925-1926.

Artificial left leg, Roehampton, England, 1926

Orthopaedics

1926

Artificial left leg, leather and duralumin alloy, English, by Hanger, dated 1926

Prototype for a mechanical arm, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1919

Orthopaedics

1919

Prototype model of mechanical arm, made by George Thomson, Edinburgh, 1919

Captain John Noel's cine camera used on 1922 Everest expedition

Cinematography

1922

35mm. ciné camera with canvas case, film cassette by Newman Sinclair used by Captain John Noel on the 1922 Everest expedition with Ross one and a half inch special cine express f/35 lens. Accessories include: battery container, two lenses - f3.5 1 1/2 inch xpress lens by Ross, London, serial no. 103365; f3.5 2 inch xpress lens by Ross, London, serial no. 98680, film cassette, crank handle, key. Used by mountaineer and filmmaker John Noel (1890-1989) during unsuccessful 1922 Everest expedition.

Round (or elephant) boot for a Syme's amputation,

Orthopaedics

1925

Round (or elephant) boot for a Syme's amputation, designed in 1922 for amputee miners working at the coal face. Made by Blatchford in 1925. Weight: 2 lbs, 0.9 kg.

Ford Model T Car Ignition Coil

Road Transport

1924

Ignition coil for trembler ignition on a Ford Model T car.