Clear all filters
Image
Category
On Display
Object type
Maker
Place of origin
Archive
Date

McVitie Weston valve collection, valve, type CV1090

Electronic Components

1943

McVitie Weston valve collection, valve, type VR100

Electronic Components

1943

Photograph showing a news cameraman using a Gaumont British News camera

Photographs

1949-01-26

A Technico grade B Burette, with interchangeable g

Experimental Chemistry

c. 1950

Seven 1/4 scale models of apparatus used by Heinrich Hertz, 1949

Radio Communication

1949

Atkinson's talcum powder, blow moulded, yellow, po

Plastics and Modern Materials

c.1951

Balloon theodolite MkII by E.R. Watts and Son, 194

Meteorology

1943

Copy of The Cinema magazine

Cinematography

Wednesday 31 January 1951

Polyethylene terephthalate filaments spool, 1943-1944

Plastics and Modern Materials

1943-1944

Matrix binocular optical depth testing instrument

Printing & Writing

1953

Matrix monocular optical depth testing instrument

Printing & Writing

1953

Moving day for the orangutans at the London Zoo

Photographs

1953

Creed tape-printing teleprinter, model 47B/N3, ser

Telecommunications

Introduced 1947

Coal miner's compressed paper helmet

Coal Mining

1950
Sample of "fused earth" from first atomic bomb explosion at Alamogordo, N.M., on July 16th 1945, contained in a metal and glass holder, diameter 102mm, height 33mm

Fused earth sample from first atomic bomb explosion

Nuclear Physics

1945

Smith's 75 mph edge-lit car speedometer with remot

Road Transport

c.1952

Magnetic disc record type 3011 made by W. Assman a

Sound Reproduction

1949
Smokebox number plate, 62660, British Railways, ex Locomotive "Butler Henderson".

Smokebox number plate, British Railways - "Butler Henderson"

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1948

Gyro azimuth circle, no 6496H, unsigned but attrib

Surveying

c. 1947
Citroen 2-CV Motor car, 1952, 375cc, first registered in France as Reg. No. 537BV43; English Reg. No.RSU 742.

Citroen 2-CV

Road Transport

1952

Moving day for the orangutans at the London Zoo

Photographs

1953
Headboard, British Railways (Eastern Region), "The North Briton", polished letters on navy blue background, between Leeds City and Glasgow Queen St., 1949-1968, terminated at Edinburgh from 1965, 1972-1975 Leeds to Edinburgh service.

headboard - north briton

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1949

Muirhead-Belin portable picture transmitter scanning unit, 1948

Telecommunications

1948

Heyes & Co. Ltd flameproof ind

Coal Mining

c. 1950
Locomotive Nameplate, British Railways, "Sir Trafford Leigh Mallory", ex Battle of Britain Class, No.34109, built May 1950.

locomotive nameplate - sir trafford leigh mallory

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1950

Laboratory standard a.c. and d.c. (electrodynamome

Electricity and Magnetism

1952
Locomotive Nameplate, London & North Eastern Railway, "Edward Thompson", ex Thompson A2/3 Class, No. 500/60500, built May 1946, Doncaster Works No. 2000, withdrawn June 1963.

locomotive nameplate - edward thompson

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1946
Turntable engine, locomotive vacuum operated, by Cowans Sheldon, Carlisle, c1950.

Turntable engine, locomotive vacuum operated, by Cowans Shel

Stationary Engines

1950

Lucas motor car dynamo, type C418A, with distribut

Road Transport

c.1945
Supply of bakelite bowls bearing the Ministry of Food logotype, in cardboard box, for emergency feeding purposes, manufactured 1945-1951

Ministry of Food bowls

Nutrition & Food Technology

1945-1951

Square pavement brick from Babylonia (Southern Iraq), 2nd millennium BC.

Building Construction

2000-1001 BCE

First sample of 100% spun 'terylene' yarn

Plastics and Modern Materials

1949

V2 rocket test kit, Germany, 1943.

Farnborough

1943
Heinkel-Hirth He S 011 Turbo jet aero engine, designed by Hans Joachim Pabst von Ohain and made by Heinkel-Hirth, Germany, 1944

Heinkel-Hirth He S 011 Turbo jet aero engine

Aircraft Propulsion

1944

Festival Pattern Group Lace, 1951

Experimental Chemistry

1951

Festival Pattern Group Lace, 1951

Experimental Chemistry

1951

Homesun 100 ultra violet sun lamp

Domestic Appliances

1947

Artificial legs, Roehampton, England, 1949

Orthopaedics

1949

'Grassot' fluxmeter

Electricity and Magnetism

1948

Automaton 'Dan Dare' pocket watch.

Time Measurement

1953

The Mall

Photographs

1945

Photograph showing a Tasmanian wolf (thylacine)

Photographs

1949-05-18

Watson's "Greenough" stereoscopic microscope, made

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1945-1947

Three tubes of penicillin powder, two of International Standard and one of British Standard samples, 1945-1946

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1945-1946

Festival Pattern gROUP WALLPAPER DESIGN, 1951

Experimental Chemistry

1951

Cup contact anemometer

Meteorology

1945

The Ostermilk Book - Before Baby Comes/ The First Year/ The Toddler

Nutrition & Food Technology

1944

Rescuing the ball after Shrove Tuesday football in Alnwick

Photographs

1953-02-17

Cinema audience watching a three dimensional film

Photographs

1953-03-18

Nelrod Liteflash camera

Photographic Technology

1950