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Southern Mixed Traffic Locomotives "Merchant Navy" class - Naming Ceremony of General Steam Navigation

Documents

1945

Zenith G2326 tabletop television receiver

Television

c. 1950

Noel Coward lights Marlene Dietrich's cigarette

Photographs

1954-06-16

Invalid carriage, London, England, 1946-1955

Orthopaedics

1946-1955

Charlotte box by Oxygenaire, London, England, 1945-1955

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1945-1955

Dentist's models of child's skull needing bone grafts

Dentistry

1954

Baird Townsman television receiver

Television

c. 1949

Alba TRG097AC Combined Radiogram Television Receiver

Television

1951

A boy and his dog bask in sun and glory

Photographs

1955-08

Liverpool skyline, with the Anglican Cathedral in the distance

Photographs

1950-02-21

Arab woman teaches children to read and write, Jerusalem

Photographs

1945-12-13

AVRO Shackleton Centre of Gravity Computer

Aeronautics

1950

Avis Scott poses in front of a 3-D television camera

Photographs

1954-08-24

First sample of 100% spun 'terylene' yarn

Plastics and Modern Materials

1949

Shaw psychological test, United Kingdom, 1948

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1948

Delivery table, Europe, 1945-1955

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1945-1955

World champion Joe Davis tries 'Apollo', his new metal snooker cue

Photographs

1954-11-18

Rescuing the ball after Shrove Tuesday football in Alnwick

Photographs

1953-02-17

Woman and child prepare tea

Photographs

c. 1955

Little girl with bananas

Photographs

1945-12-30

Katharometer, designed by W.Stuve, c. 1957

Experimental Chemistry

1957
Replica Sputnik 1, the world's first artificial satellite, 1957

Sputnik 1 satellite, 1957.

Space Technology

1957

Watson Model 75 Television Zoom Lens

Television

1949-52

St. Mary's Lighthouse, Whitley Bay

Photographs

1949-11-03

Scene after a stampede for tickets to see Manchester United

Photographs

1950-02-03

Haemoglobin 8.26, Festival Pattern Group brown/red fabric, 1950-1951

Experimental Chemistry

1950-1951

Haemoglobin 8.26, Festival Pattern Group blue fabric, 1950-1951

Experimental Chemistry

1950-1951

Debrie H 35mm high speed cine camera

Cinematography

1950

The Palm House, Kew Gardens

Photographs

c. 1945

Prototype logoscope, an aid to differential diagnosis in ‘slide rule’ form, about 1953

Clinical Diagnosis

c.1953

Two women war photographers with Graflex cameras

Photographs

1945
active 1948-1969, optical instrument maker (spectroscopes etc.), London, England

Hilger and Watts Limited

1948 - 1969

Ceramic Ernie money box

Computing & Data Processing

1957
Sievert blow lamp, 1/2 pint, 0.33 litres paraffin tank, type 538. Made by Max Sievert, Stockholm, Sweden. c. 1950

Sievert blow lamp, 1/2 pint, 0.33 litres paraffin

Domestic Appliances

c. 1950

Circular slide rule and time zone scale, cardboard

Mathematics

1947

Back to the Sun at Clacton-on-Sea and Holland-on-Sea

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1955

O-VEE Spring Thread Gauges, 5 7/8" Whit., 5 t.p.i.

Industrial Metrology

1946 or later.

Electric dishwasher

Domestic Appliances

1952

Festival Pattern Group Fabric, 1951

Experimental Chemistry

1951

"Eddystone" 680/2A communications receiver; Stratt

Radio Communication

1955
Plastic body box camera for stereo, 127 rollfilm 2 x 2 x 1 5/8 inches. Fitted with two meniscus lenses of fixed aperture. Lever cocked instantaneous double shutter. Covering blade on No 1 lens permits single exposures. 'binocular Viewfinder', double binocular direct vision optical finders. Double socket flash contact. Instructions on back plate. Serial No D87476.

Coronet 3D camera

Photographic Technology

1953

Gutta-percha bottle, with stopper

Plastics and Modern Materials

c. 1950

Oldham Type C electric hand la

Coal Mining

c. 1950

Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier at Roehampton

Photographs

31 May 1949

Refrigerator made by Prestcold

Domestic Appliances

1951

J H Naylor Ltd. McLuckie Metha

Coal Mining

c. 1950

Fairey Rotodyne compound helicopter (Print)

Art

1950-1955
Locomotive worksplate, "North British Locomotive Company Ltd 1947 No 26094 Glasgow", ex London & North Eastern Railway "B1" class 4-6-0 No 1193, subsequently British Railways No 61193, built May 1947, withdrawn September 1962.

worksplate, North British Locomotive Company

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1947

Gramophone record turntable transcription unit, 1956

Sound Reproduction

1956

radiogram

Radio Communication

1950