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1978-current (2019), electronics and electrical equipment manufacturer, multinational; Tokyo, Japan, Japanese

Toshiba Corporation

1939

1939-1981, cine camera and projector manufacturer, St Etienne

Heurtier et Cie

1939 - 1981

Siemens Hellschreiber receiver in bakelite case

Radio Communication

c. 1940

Resin replica of a clay model of a sheep's liver used for divination, original Babylonian, original 2050BC to 1750BC

Copy of model of a sheep's liver. Original Babylonian, c. 2050-1750 BC.

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

Model of Barrage Balloon, with mobile winch, hydrogen trailer and ground equipment, on base, scale 1:25

Barrage balloon winch unit, c 1939.

Aeronautics

1939

1940; railway employee, railway manager, railway personnel manager, railway company director

Watkinson, Antony Paul

1940

active 1940-1980s?, manufacturer of X-ray tubes, North Wembley, England

Machlett X-Ray Tubes Limited

1940

active 1939-current (2016), computer software and hardware technology company, United States, American

Hewlett Packard Company

1939

1939-1945, war charity organisation, British

Joint War Organisation

1939

1939; railway employee, signal engineer, railway signalling manager, railway company director

Burrage, Ken W.

1939

Shuttle with orange thread, which belongs to a Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom with automatic bobbin insertion, 1939.

Shuttle from a Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom

Textiles Machinery

1939

Six-20 brownie senior camera. Box camera for 620 roll film 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 inch. Meniscus lens, fixed aperture, rotary shutter T/I, built in portrait lens on slide, 3 - 4 ft. Two brilliant reflecting finders. Kodak Limited, 1939. Overall: 104 mm x 85 mm x 110 mm.

Six-20 brownie senior camera

Photographic Technology

1939

Surveying aneroid barometer, by T. Wheeler Scientific Insts. Ltd. London, no.B674, 1940, 12cm diam, in leather case

Surveying aneroid barometer, by T. Wheeler Scienti

Surveying

1940

1x4oz bottle of Ol. Menth. Pip. P.B. (peppermint oil), by A. de St. Dalmas and Co., Leicester, 1940

Bottle of Ol. Menth. Pip. P.B. (peppermint oil)

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1940

Night sky camera by Casella, London, MO 1/39, date 1939.

Night sky camera by Casella, London, MO 1/39, date

Meteorology

1939

Kodak Retina IIa camera (Type 150). Self erecting folding camera for 35mm film 24 x 36mm. Fitted with a Retina Xenon lens F: 5cm f/2.8-16 No.1521924. Compur rapid shutter 1/2/5/10/25/50/100/250/500/B. Coupled coincidence type rangefinder combines with direct vision finder. Helical focusing. Body release. Accessory shoe. Depth of field scale. No. 316563K. Kodak AG. Overall (deployed): 84 mm x 125 mm x 82 mm.

Kodak Retina IIa camera

Photographic Technology

1939

‘H’ design. F.N.F. Warp knitting and weft insertion. ‘Sectional End Elevation’ blueprint. Pencil drawing used by Morton and subsidiaries, 28/9/39. Scale: 1/2 full size.

‘Sectional End Elevation’ blueprint

Industrial Chemistry

28th September 1939

One of six replicas Greek lead weights from the Island of Cos in the Aegian Sea, c.BC300. Originals at Messrs. W. and T. Avery's Museum, Soho Foundry, Birmingham

Replica Greek lead weight from Island of Cos

Weighing & Measuring

1939

David Brown 'VAK 1' agricultural tractor on pneumatic tyres, by David Brown, Meltham, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, Serial No. 1750, 1940. Engine: Serial No. 18774-cylinder 25 hp overhead valve petrol/tractor vaporising oil. Fitted with power take-off and three point hydraulic linkage. The first model of tractor produced by David Brown after their break with Harry Ferguson.

David Brown 'VAK 1' agricultural tractor on pneuma

Agricultural Engineering

1940

Guidebook, London Midland & Scottish Railway, "LMS Official Guide to the Holiday Resorts of Scotland", 1939, 376 pages, soft cover.

London Midland & Scottish Railway official guide to the holiday resorts of scotland

Library Collections

1939

Medal, Compagnie de navigation sud-atlantique, showing liner "Pasteur" and Pasteur, French, 1939, F. Bazin, artist

Medal, Compagnie de navigation sud-atlantique, sho

Wellcome Medals

1939

35mm. f/3.5 Wollensak Velostigmat lens; built-in extinction meter.

Detrola Camera Model KW

Photographic Technology

1939

1939-?, manufacturer of healthcare products, American

Baxter Laboratories Inc

1939

RCA valve, type 12A6, marked U.S.A. VT-134, (RMW/Y228 - McVitie Weston number), by RCA Corporation.-1940

McVitie Weston valve collection, RCA valve, type 12A6

Electronic Components

-1940

Twenty-nine assorted handlebar grips and one Beeston Humber 3-speed twist grip, c1940.

Twenty-nine assorted handlebar grips and one Beest

Road Transport

c. 1940

Figg, Martin

1940

Trewavas, Anthony J

1939

Guidebook, Great Western Railway, "GWR Holiday Haunts 1939", 1939, cost new 6d, 976 pages, hard cover, artwork by Muriel Gill.

Great Western Railway Holiday haunts 1939

Library Collections

1939

Bobbin wound with cream thread, which belongs to a Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom with automatic bobbin insertion, 1939.

Bobbin from a Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom

Textiles Machinery

1939

Bobbin wound with green thread, which belongs to a Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom with automatic bobbin insertion, 1939.

Bobbin from a Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom

Textiles Machinery

1939

Bobbin wound with cream thread, which belongs to a Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom with automatic bobbin insertion, 1939.

Bobbin from a Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom

Textiles Machinery

1939

Bobbin wound with cream thread, which belongs to a Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom with automatic bobbin insertion, 1939.

Bobbin from a Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom

Textiles Machinery

1939

Bobbin wound with cream thread, which belongs to a Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom with automatic bobbin insertion, 1939.

Bobbin from a Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom

Textiles Machinery

1939

A sample of cream coloured thread belonging to a Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom, 1939

sample of cream coloured thread belonging to a Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom

Textiles Machinery

1939

Bobbin wound with cream thread, which belongs to a Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom with automatic bobbin insertion, 1939.

Bobbin from a Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom

Textiles Machinery

1939

Bobbin wound with green thread, which belongs to a Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom with automatic bobbin insertion, 1939.

Bobbin from a Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom

Textiles Machinery

1939

Bobbin wound with green thread, which belongs to a Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom with automatic bobbin insertion, 1939.

Bobbin from a Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom

Textiles Machinery

1939

Bobbin wound with green thread, which belongs to a Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom with automatic bobbin insertion, 1939.

Bobbin from a Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom

Textiles Machinery

1939

Bobbin wound with orange thread, which belongs to a Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom with automatic bobbin insertion, 1939.

Bobbin from a Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom

Textiles Machinery

1939

Steel case for German field surgical set, by Jetter and Scheerer of Tuttlingen, marked "Hauptbessteck," 1939

Steel case for German field surgical set

Surgery

1939

Newman Sinclair Autokine spring-driven 35mm cine camera, Model G, serial no. 541, no lenses.

Newmann Sinclair Autokine 35mm Cine Camera Model G

Cinematography

c. 1940

Wooden spindle belonging to the Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom, 1939

Wooden spindle belonging to the Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom

Textiles Machinery

1939

Silver gelatin copy print made ca.1970s. Eileen Dunne, child injured during the Blitz,sits in a hospital bed with a bandage around her head. She is holding a doll. Photograph by Sir Cecil Beaton.

Eileen Dunne

Photographs

1940

A photograph of a woman gargling, taken by Photographic Advertising Limited, c. 1950. Photographic Advertising took many photographs in a similar style, showing women or men smiling, sneezing or crying.

Woman gargling water

Photographs

c. 1940

A photograph entitled 'Cress-gathering in Letcombe Bassett', taken in February 1939 by Edward G Malindine for the Daily Herald.

Cress-gathering in Letcombe Bassett

Photographs

1939-02-21

photographer; 1940 to present (2016)

Tress, Arthur

1940

Intertype G4 4SM made by Harris-Intertype Ltd, Slough, 1938

Intertype G4 4SM

Printing & Writing

1939

Bobbin wound with cream thread, which belongs to a Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom with automatic bobbin insertion, 1939.

Bobbin from a Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom

Textiles Machinery

1939

Bobbin wound with tangled cream thread, which belongs to a Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom with automatic bobbin insertion, 1939.

Bobbin from a Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom

Textiles Machinery

1939

Bobbin wound with green thread, which belongs to a Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom with automatic bobbin insertion, 1939.

Bobbin from a Northrop single-shuttle 'S' loom

Textiles Machinery

1939