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Revo electric cooker

Domestic Appliances

c.1935

Hivac XL HF triode valve (McVitie Weston valve collection), 1935

Electronic Components

1935

RCA 955 Acorn UFH triode vale (McVitie Weston valve collection), 1935

Electronic Components

1935

Coronet Midget

Photographic Technology

1936

Council Estate at Hanwell

Photographs

1937-07-08

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

Mercedes Prima portable typewriter, c. 1936 (seria

Printing & Writing

1936

To York, Dick Turpin's Ride

Railway Posters, Notices & Handbills

1934

Weston Photronic Exposure Meter Model 650

Photographic Technology

1935

Poster, The Silver Jubilee

Railway Posters, Notices & Handbills

1935
Keystone 8mm camera model K-8. Cine camera for double run 8mm film. Fitted with a Wollensak cine Veliostigmat lens, iris diaphragm f/3.5-16. Screw mount 12, 16, 48 fps, clockwork motor, lock on button. Folding frame finder, direct vision optical finder. Rotary footage indicator. No.887926. Keystone.

Keystone 8mm camera model K-8

Cinematography

1937

Young shopper

Photographs

1937-12-22

‘Magnet’ model electric cooker, around 1935

Domestic Appliances

c.1935

Coronet Midget camera

Photographic Technology

1935

Artificial right leg, Roehampton, England, 1934

Orthopaedics

1934

Emitron tube

Radio Communication

c. 1934

Kine Exakta camera

Photographic Technology

1936

Clitoridectomy knife, Ganza, Congo, pre-1936

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

pre-1936

Kima model microscope and accessories by W. Watson

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1937

Lockheed 10A Electra, serial no 1037, 1935.

Aeronautics

1935

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE

Father Christmas arrives at Selfridges by parcel post, with Mickey Mouse

Photographs

1935-10-28

EMI Emitron Camera Head

Television

1936

Contaflex camera

Photographic Technology

1935
1935-1995, pharmaceuticals manufacturer, Greenford, Middlesex, England, British

Glaxo Laboratories Limited

1935
Box camera for Six-20 rollfilm 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches. Fitted with a meniscus lens, fixed aperture, rotary shutter T/I, two reflecting finders. Kodak Limited. 1934

Six-20 Hawkeye Major Camera

Photographic Technology

1934
Locomotive Nameplate, London Midland & Scottish Railway, "Polyphemus", ex Jubilee Class, No. 5688/45688, new to traffic February 1936, withdrawn December 1962.

locomotive nameplate - polyphemus

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1936

Steam locomotive, named Cheltenham

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1934
Model, scale 1:8, of a 900 g.p.m. Leyland Limousine type fire pump.

Scale model of Leyland fire engine, 1936

Firefighting

1936

Melted Farnsworth Image Dissector Television Camera Tube

Television

1935-36

Vertex magneto, sectioned

Road Transport

1934

Memento mori showing a decomposing corpse, Europe, pre 1936

Anatomy & Pathology

pre-1936

Horn shaped ear trumpet

Audiology

before 1935

McArthur portable microscope, with three objective

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1935-1937

Imperial Airways

Art

1936

Fixed-pitch propeller

Aircraft Propulsion

1936

Three ampoules of sterile kangaroo tendon sutures

Surgery

1936
Replica, part sectioned, of Stephenson's 'Rocket' locomotive, as originally built and painted in 1829. With tender, complete with water barrel, rails, chairs, keys and spikes. Length 5.68m; width 1.78m; area 11.71m square.

Replica, part sectioned, of Stephenson's 'Rocket' locomotive, 1935

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1935

Free bread

Photographs

1935-12-25

New Coronation Scot

Photographs

1937-05-27

Anti-war demonstration

Photographs

1936-05-03

Cascade generator for 1.5 million volt accelerator

Nuclear Physics

1937
Main part of a working model of a differential analyser constructed from the construction toy, Meccano, made by Professor Douglas Hartree and Arthur Porter at University of Manchester, England, 1934. Reconstructed by Prof. Douglas Hartree at University of Cambridge, England, 1947

Meccano differential analyser, 1947

Mathematics

1934; 1947

Annual stable lads boxing tournament

Photographs

1937-01-25

Sargrove sprayed-circuit radio receiver experiment, 1936-1937

Electronic Components

1936-7

'Pneumostat' inhaler, London, England, 1934-1935

Therapeutics

1934-1935

A Mountain of Railway Sleepers

Photographs

1937-10-13
Pocket tripod in fountain pen shape. Opens to 9 or 12 inches high with a built in ball and head socket. Jaegar LeCoultre, 1937.

Pocket Tripod for Compass Camera

Photographic Technology

1937

STC portable sound level meter

Acoustics

1934

Photograph showing Indian actor Sabu riding an elephant at Coventry Zoo

Photographs

1937-05-05