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Rude's star identifier A-N type 1 date c. 1942

Astronomy

1942

1942 edition of Ulysses by James Joyce.

Ulysses

Printing & Writing

1942

Two wartime coloured wax pencils manufactured to Utility requirements, c. 1942

Two wartime coloured wax pencils manufactured to U

Printing & Writing

1942

Print advertisement for Cine-Kodak cameras and projectors

Cinematography

1942

McVitie Weston valve collection, GEC/USA valve, type GL-805

Electronic Components

1942

Clay figure of animal

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1000 BCE

Unipivot galvanometer serial no.L137843

Electricity and Magnetism

1942

Bilham humidity slide rule Mk II for temperate latitudes, MO 345/42, in case

Meteorology

1942

Visibility Meter Mark IB, 1942

Meteorology

1942

photograph, waste paper

Art

1942

Southern Mixed Traffic Locomotives "Merchant Navy" class - Naming Ceremony of Orient Line

Documents

1942

We are the ATC

Art

1942

1942-current (2014), scientist, English; British

Hawking, Stephen

1942 - 2018

Alon, Roy

1942 - 2006

Hawking, Stephen William

1942 - 2018

1942-1957, government department, British

Ministry of Fuel and Power

1942 - 1957

Deer-antler pick, used in flint mining from Grimes Graves

Hand and Machine Tools

3000-1900 BCE

Sectional model, one eighth full size, of Fermi's original nuclear reactor (atomic pile) CP-1, (1942)

A model of a nuclear reactor designed by Enrico Fermi, 1942

Nuclear Physics

1942

Two models (1:16 scale) of agricultural implements found in the Theban necropolis, XVI 11th Dynasty, 2000-1500 BC. Mounted together on a plaster base.

Two models (1:16 scale) of agricultural implements found in the Theban necropolis

Agricultural Engineering

2000-1500 BCE

Screw pitch measuring machine 3"x7". Designed by N.P.L. and made by G. Cussons Ltd in 1942. Complete with R7/8" standard thread test piece

Screw pitch measuring machine 3"x7". Designed by N

Industrial Metrology

1942

Vintage silver gelatin print by Kurt Hutton. Image shows English philosopher Professor Cyril Joad (1891-1953) giving a speech on the fight to maintain the freedom of the Press.

Professor Cyril Joad

Photographs

1942

Earthenware mug marked GRVI, for emergency feeding purposes, by TG Green and Co, Church Gresley, 1942

Earthenware mug marked GRVI

Nutrition & Food Technology

1942

1942-1999, photographer, India, Paris, London, New York

Singh, Raghubir

1942 - 1999

active 1960s-current (2012), manufacturer of electronic equipment, Copenhagen, Denmark

Brüel & Kjær (Sound and Vibration Measurement) A/S

1942

b. 1942, physicist, British, United Kingdom

Higgins, Julia

1942

1x1oz bottle of Salol B.P. (salicylic acid), by E.H. Butter, 1942

1x1oz bottle of Salol B.P. (salicylic acid), by E.

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1942

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

Two chairs mounted on concrete "pot" sleepers, with tie bar, recovered from Oxford goods yard, British Rail Western Region. Chairs marked "1942 GWR";

Two chairs mounted on concrete "pot" sleepers, with tie bar,

Railway Infrastructure

1942

Photograph entitled 'Rivetting a Spitfire tank' taken by James Jarche for Illustrated, 2 December 1942. Gelatin silver print.

Rivetting a Spitfire tank

Photographs

1942-12-02

McCormick-Deering 'Farmall A' four-wheeled rowcrop agricultural tractor on pneumatic tyres, by International Harvester Corporation Chicago, Illinois, USA, Serial No. F.A.A. 84748, 1942. Engine: 4-cylinder 20 hp overhead valve gasoline (petrol)/kerosene. Fitted with power take-off, and optional belt pulley.

International Harvester Farmall'A' tractor, 1942.

Agricultural Engineering

1942

Kodak aero-Ektar lens F: 12 inches (305mm) for 9 x9 inch pictures No. Ea473, coated. f/2.5 of fixed aperture. In 22.8cm flange. Eastman Kodak. 1942

Kodak aero-Ektar lens

Photographic Technology

1942

Photograph of Ashington Colliery, training scheme for pit boys by James Jarche, 27 May 1942. Gelatin silver print.

Ashington Colliery, training scheme for pit boys

Photographs

1942-05-27

Painting, watercolour, 'Waterloo Station in Wartime', by Denys G Wells, depicting station scene of people and clock, 1942. Notes on the back:- Exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 1943. Stamped - Passed for publication 13th Aug.194(?) and initialled by the General Section Press and Censorship Board. also stamped 'No objection to publication subject to submission to the Press Censor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1.'

Watercolour' Waterloo Station in Wartime', by Denys G Wells, 1942

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1942

Plaster copy of conical flask, part of C16 European alchemist's distilling apparatus, English, 1942

Plaster copy of conical flask, part of C16 Europea

Laboratory Medicine

1942

Book: Wings: An Anthology of Flight (1942) by H.G. Bryden (ed). London. Faber & Faber.

Wings: An Anthology of Flight

Printed Books

1942

Book: The Use of Air Power (1942) by Flt. Lt. V.E.R. Blunt.

The Use of Air Power by Flt. Lt. V.E.R. Blunt

Printed Books

1942

A black and white silver gelatin photograph entitled "Lancaster Penn, March '42", taken by John Collier in March 1942, depicting a child in an open carriage or car. From the Impressions Gallery exhibition "From Shore to Shining Shore", shown 25 November - 24 December 1978.

Lancaster Penn, March '42

Photographs

1942-03

A black and white silver gelatin photograph entitled "Guardian of the peace dance for enlisted men, El Rancho Grande, Brownsville, Texas, Feb. 1942", depicting a man in military uniform and a woman. Taken by Arthur Rothstein in 1942. From the Impressions Gallery exhibition "From Shore to Shining Shore", shown 25 November - 24 December 1978.

Guardian of the Peace dance for enlisted men

Photographs

1942-02

Egyptian funerary statue of man and wife, granite, Old Kingdom, from plain of Memphis

Egyptian funerary statue of man and wife, granite

Classical & Medieval Medicine

4000-1000 BCE

Poster advertising discovery of stray sheep, Lampeter, Wales, 1942

Poster advertising discovery of stray sheep, Lampe

Veterinary Medicine

1942

Photograph showing miners training school taken by James Jarche, 30 May 1942. Gelatin silver print.

Miners training school

Photographs

1942-05-30

Photograph of training school for boy miners by James Jarche, 30 May 1942. Gelatin silver print.

Training school for boy miners

Photographs

1942-05-30

Photograph of Ashington Colliery, training scheme for pit boys by James Jarche, 27 May 1942. Gelatin silver print.

Ashington Colliery, training scheme for pit boys

Photographs

1942-05-27

Silver gelatin print, by Andre de Dienes. Image shows a cotton picker tilling a field in Mississippi. African Amrican child's face superimposed on the sky. Photographer's stamp on verso.

Cotton picking, Mississippi

Photographs

1942

Silver gelatin copy print made ca.1970s. Photograph by Sir Cecil Beaton of a British soldier walking to his tent during a sandstorm in the Western Desert during the second world war.

Sandstorm in the Western Desert

Photographs

1942

Silver gelatin copy print made ca.1970s. Photograph by Sir Cecil Beaton of General António Óscar Fragoso Carmona (1869-1951), President of the Portugese Republic. He is pictured at his residence in 1942.

General António Óscar Fragoso Carmona

Photographs

1942

Silver gelatin copy print made ca.1970s. Photograph by Sir Cecil Beaton of an RAF polit standing in front of a sand bag pyramid in the Western Desert during the second world war.

British soldier in the Western Desert

Photographs

1942

Silver gelatin copy print made ca.1970s. Photograph by Sir Cecil Beaton of battlefield debris in the Wester Desert duing the second world war.

Debris in the Western Desert

Photographs

1942

Silver gelatin print. Photograph by Sir Cecil Beaton of Nurse Ellis in the operating theatre at a field hospital in Tobruk, Libya, during the Second World War.

Nurse Ellis in field hospital operating theatre

Photographs

1942

Silver gelatin copy print made ca.1970s. Photograph by Sir Cecil Beaton of a young orphan in Chungking, China.

Chinese orphan

Photographs

1942