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Photograph showing zookeepers collecting wolf pups from a nest at Whipsnade

Photographs

1938-05-19

Photograph showing a zookeeper grooming a prairie wolf

Photographs

1937-12-11

Photograph showing a zookeeper grooming a prairie wolf

Photographs

1937-12-11

Three ampoules of sterile kangaroo tendon sutures

Surgery

1936

Ferranti electric meter

Electricity Supply

c. 1940

Shipyard workers

Photographs

1940-01-08
Medal plaquette, white metal, bearing the head of James Watt (1736-1819) in profile, looking to left. 58x31x3mm, mounted on wooden frame [museum construction] 17.5x13.6x2cm. Plate fixed to mount is inscribed, Presented in 1936 by the Japanese National Committee of the World Power Conference, Tokyo, to commemorate the Bicentenary of his Birth

James Watt Birth Bicentenary Medal

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1936

McVitie Weston valve collection, valve, type NR87

Electronic Components

1939

Probe, India, before 1936

Asian Medicine

before 1936

Obstetric forceps, India, before 1936

Asian Medicine

before 1936
Metal tray insert in the middle of 'Tabloid" medicine chest, style 260, supplied to 1938 Everest Expedition, prepared by Burroughs Wellcome and Co. (The Wellcome Foundation Ltd.), London 1937-1938

Metal tray insert from 'Tabloid' medicine chest

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1937-1938
Metal tray insert from bottom of 'Tabloid" medicine chest. Supplied to 1938 Everest Expedition, prepared by Burroughs Wellcome and Co. (The Wellcome Foundation Ltd.), London 1937-1938

Metal tray insert for 'Tabloid' medicine chest

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1937-1938

Set of chiropodial instruments in wooden case, by Scholl, En

Chiropody

1940

Football - England vs Hungary, 1936

Photographs

2 December 1936

Football - England vs Hungary, 1936

Photographs

2 December 1936

Marconi thermionic triode valve

Radio Communication

1940

Fire pump pipe elbow, from Mather & Platt sprinkler system

Pumping Machinery

c.1938

Mather and Platt fire pump safety guard

Pumping Machinery

c.1938

Mather & Platt fire pump fixings and fittings

Pumping Machinery

c.1938
Length of piping from Merlin Spitfire aircraft engine (see Pt10)

Vickers-Supermarine Mk I Spitfire, c 1940, with separate Merlin engine.

Aeronautics

1940

Painting scenery for use in a film set at Ealing Studios

Photographs

1939

Woman and child in an oat field

Photographs

c. 1938

Van promoting the Daily Herald newspaper

Photographs

1937

Demonstrating a Crile head tractor

Photographs

1937-10-18

Man with hunting trophies

Photographs

1938-01-06

Schools' athletics meeting

Photographs

1938-06-13

Opening of Children's Zoo

Photographs

1939-05-22

War Declared on Germany - England's First Air Raid

Photographs

1939-09-03

Filming 'The Citadel'

Photographs

1938-06-09

Man with a pocket laboratory

Photographs

1937-10-18

Crystal Palace fire

Photographs

1936-11-30

Young shopper

Photographs

1937-12-22

School children being evacuated

Photographs

1938-09-28

Parker "Vacumatic" Fountain Pen, 1939

Printing & Writing

1939

R.A.F. receiver R1082, c. 1939

Radio Communication

1939

Hand filing fixture

Printing & Writing

1937

Hand Stamp Fixture

Printing & Writing

1937
Sargrove sprayed-circuit radio receiver (experimental model), made by John Sargrove, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England, 1936-1937.

Sargrove sprayed-circuit radio receiver experiment, 1936-1937

Electronic Components

1936-7

McVitie Weston valve collection, Mullard valve, type EM3

Electronic Components

1938

Miniature Working Model of Marine-type Steam Engine

Marine Engines

1936

Commemorative Bowl for the Manchester Corporation Hydraulic Power Exhibition

Pumping Machinery

1938

Heavy working arm for right above elbow amputation

Orthopaedics

c. 1940
Pedal board for Hammond Model "E" organ Serial No. 8282, 1937.

Pedal board, for Hammond Model 'E' organ, Serial No. 8282

Acoustics

1937

Jaeger motor car engine revolution indicator, 1938

Road Transport

1938

Woman in hat

Photographs

c. 1940

Imperial State Crown

Photographs

1937
Plate, ceramic, by Alfred Meakin, London & North Eastern Railway, circular, white with border of pink and green roses and thistles, LNER "Keswick" design (Scottish).

LNER side plate

Passenger Comforts

1936
Distended human skull, labelled LN Fowler, for phrenological use, from the British Phrenological Society.

Distended human skull for phrenological use

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

before 1937

Artificial arm with knife accessory for eating, made by Desoutter Brothers Ltd, 1940

Orthopaedics

1940

Shipyard worker

Photographs

1940-01-08