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Ferrograph tape recorder, c 1960.

Sound Reproduction

1960

Unit from Ferrograph tape recorder model 4A/N, c. 1960.

Philips 19TG 142 A television receiver

Television

1961

Philips television receiver, 19" table model, 19TG 142A, serial no.BA23836, 1961110 degree deflection, Band I/III table top television fitted with vision AGC (automatic gain control) and sound AVC (automatic volume control).

Tube of tuberculin jelly, London, England, 1955

Public Health & Hygiene

1955

1 tube Tuberculin Jelly 5gr, made by Allen & Hanburys Ltd, London E2, 15 Feb.1955

Baird Portable T164 television receiver

Television

1949-1950

Baird Portable T164 monochrome television receiver, serial no.P3393, 1949. Medallion portrait of John Logie Baird on the front between the control knobs.

Pye Mark III television camera head

Television

1948-1958

Pye Mark III television camera head, c 1952. Image orthicon camera type 2028, used by Associated TeleVision (ATV). Moulded cream plastic letters 'ATV' attached to side of camera.

Poster, Ramsgate

Railway Posters, Notices & Handbills

1959

Poster, British Railways (Southern Region), 'Ramsgate' by Alan Durman, about 1959. Coloured lithograph depicting a woman knelt on the beach in a red bikini with the tide coming up behind her. Text below advertises a holiday guide and "Express Trains from London (Victoria), Through trains from the Midlands".

Kenwood Electric Chef' food mixer, model A700, with accessories, Woking, Surrey, 1950-1956

Domestic Appliances

1950-1956

'Kenwood Electric Chef' food mixer, model A700, plus liquidiser, juice extractor, potato peeler and bread dough mixing attachment, by Kenwood Manufacturing Co. Ltd., Woking, Surrey, 1950-1956

Festival Pattern Group Wallpaper, 1951

Experimental Chemistry

1951

Sample in pink, yellow and black of Insulin 8.25 wallpaper pattern, crystallographer Dorothy Hodgkin, designed by Robert Sevant, made by John Line and Sons Ltd. Pattern in production in 1951 and used in the cinema foyer at the Exhibition of Science. Shown in the Land Travelling Exhibition. From a collection of 83 samples designed for the 1951 Festival of Britain.

Portable resuscitator for industrial use, England, 1962

Public Health & Hygiene

1962

'Porton' portable Mark II resuscitator, for industrial use, with case, supplied by Pfizer Ltd., Kent, 1962

Brownie Flash B camera

Photographic Technology

c. 1959

Box camera for 620 rollfilm 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches. Fitted with a meniscus lens, fixed aperture. Rotary suter /40/80/B. Flash synchronised screw and pin contacts. Exposure guide. Yellow filter and close up portrait lenses on sliding plate. Two brilliant reflecting finders. Buff leatherette and brown paint. Kodak Limited, 1958-1960.

Magic brain' calculator. C.1955

Mathematics

c.1955

Magic brain calculator in tin and plastic, with stylus and instructions

Arriflex llB 35mm Cine Camera with 200' Magazine

Cinematography

1950

35mm Arriflex IIB cine camera body, Serial Number 3452, with synch-pulse adapter, camera motor, 28mm Schneider lens (Serial Number 3087691), 50mm Cooke lens (Serial Number 518420), 75mm Taylor-Hobson lens, (Serial number 500107), one 200' magazine on camera, one 400' magazine, swan neck, camera leads.

Minute 16 camera

Photographic Technology

1949

Universal Minute 16 camera. Subminiature camera for 16mm film in special cassette. Manufactured by Universal Camera Co., USA. Sub miniature camera for 16mm film in special cassette 10x14mm. Fixed aperture lens; fixed speed shutter; lever wind; folding frame finder. Shaped like small cinecamera.

Ferrograph tape recorder, c 1960.

Sound Reproduction

1960

Ferrograph tape recorder model 4A/N, c. 1960.

C4 Rotating Mirror High Speed Camera

Nuclear Energy

1950-1959

C4 Rotating Mirror High Speed Camera bolted to rectangular wheeled steel frame - wheels missing, and detachable handle, by the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment (A.W.R.E), Aldermaston, Hampshire, 1950-1959.

RAC Car Badge

Road Transport

c. 1954

RAC Car Badge

Cine-Kodak Special II Camera

Cinematography

1950

Cine-Kodak Special II camera. 16mm camera for 100 foot reels. Two-lens turret, with two lenses; Kodak Cine Ektar lens F:25mm f/1.4 Serial No RE 301; Kodak Cine Ektar lens F:15mm f/2.5, Serial No RM 1094. Clockwork drive 8-6 fps, single frame; 8 and 1 frame shafts; backwind; totally closing adjustable shutter; frame and footage counters; critical reflex focusing behind lens; swing-over tube for viewing from camera rear; folding optical frame finder; detachable, interchangeable film magazines. Eastman Kodak.

Vorwerk Vacmaster

Domestic Appliances

c.1955

'Vacmaster' made by Vorwerk, Germany, c.1955, with associated archive material.

Daily Herald contact strip showing teen girl holding wolf pups

Photographs

1958-06-05

Photograph contact strip titled 'Teen-age girls will tame the wolves'. Caption on back reads: Two 17-year-old hostesses at Whipsnade Children's Zoo have been given the job of taming to three-month-old wolf cubs. It is the first time Whipsnade has tried to tame wolves. The hostesses, 17-year-old Adrienne Wheeler, and 17-year-old blonde Joyce Shury, have to cuddle and pet them so that in time they will be tame enough for visiting children to handle. A Zoo official said "They are still very wild. We hope they will respond to affection from the girls." To catch the cubs, which were running wild in an enclosure with a pack of Canadian wolves, keepers had to make a surprise raid by van and grab the two cubs. But, it is feared that when they show their teeth, the girls may be a little shy of them'. Images by A. Tanner for the Daily Herald.

J H Naylor Ltd Spiralarm miner

Coal Mining

c. 1960

J H Naylor Ltd Spiralarm miners safety lamp and methane detector, c. 1960

Shrovetide football in Ashbourne

Photographs

1950-02-21

A photograph of a Shrovetide football match at Ashbourne in Derbyshire, taken in February 1950 by Bert Abell for the Daily Herald.

Pharmaceutical Fermenter Used in the Development of Semisynthetic Penicillins

Biotechnology

1957

Fermenter, capacity 300 litres, installed 1957 at Beecham Pharmaceuticals, made by Burnett & Rolfe Ltd, Rochester, Kent, England. Used at pilot plant for the production of 6-Aminopenicillanic acid.

BBC radio microphone type XFM/4, 1955

Radio Communication

1955

BBC radio microphone type XFM/4, 1955, in wooden transit case. Serial No. 157.

Kolster Brandes Royal Star television receiver

Television

1958

KB PVP20 'Royal Star' 17" monochrome television receiver.

Detectives and police from Scotland Yard search the back garden of 10 Rillington Place

Photographs

1953-03-25

A photograph of police and detectives from Scotland Yard searching the back garden of 10 Rillington Place, taken in March 1953 by William Jones for the Daily Herald.

Barbara Hepworth's Surgery Sketchbook

Collection Unassigned

1948

Sketchbook, depicting stages of an operation inscribed on the title page with: “fenestration of the ear by Surgeon Garnett Passe at the London Clinic, 1948”, by Barbara Hepworth, London, England, 1948. Comprises 31 pages of drawings in pencil, some in ink. Signed and dated by the artist on the title page. Some pages have been removed.

Mobile X-Ray Vehicle

Radiomedicine

1948

Mobile mass miniature radiograph unit, housed in a 1948 Leyland "Beaver" van. Vehicle registration no. OPL 840.

Kolff artificial kidney, Netherlands, 1955-1956

Therapeutics

1955-1956

Prototype twin coil dialyser in an apricot tin with lid, by Willem Johann Kolff, Netherlands, 1955-1956

BR iron ore tippler

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1954

Railway wagon, British Railways, 27T Iron Ore Tippler, No B383560, built Shildon Works, 1954. [Built to diagram number BR Wagon 181, construction span 1951-1954, number built 900].

Torsion balance to weigh up to 100 mg made by Whit

Experimental Chemistry

c.1950

Torsion balance to weigh up to 100 mg made by White Electical Instrument Co, supplied by Baird & Tatlock, mid 20th century.

Exchange operator's chair made

Telecommunications

1961

Exchange operator's chair made by Dare-Inglis Products Ltd, 1961.

Electrolux Refrigeration Unit, 1953

Heat

1953

Electrolux continuous-absorption refrigeration unit, type 15A3, serial No. 3838185, by Electrolux Ltd., Luton, England, 1953.

EM2 Electric Locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1954

BR Class 77 EM2 electric locomotive no. 27001, named 'Ariadne', made by London & North Eastern Railway Works, Manchester, 1954, with associated archive material.

Stanford Binet Intelligence Scale for Children; or

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1960

Stanford Binet Intelligence Scale for Children; originally devised by psychologists Lewis Terman and Maude Merrill in 1937 and distributed in England by NFER -Nelson, c. 1960.

Container flat wagon,conflat A

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1959

Container wagon, British Railways, 13 ton Container flat wagon, Conflat A, No. B737725, built Ashford, 1959. [Built to diagram BR Wagon 69, number built 7700].

Olivetti standard manual typewriter, model M40/3,

Printing & Writing

1947

Olivetti standard manual typewriter, model M40/3, c. 1947, (serial number 527635) with 16" carriage

BBC VERA (Vision Electronic Recording Apparatus) video tape

Television

1958

Original reel of magnetic tape from the BBC's VERA (Vision Electronic Recording Apparatus) video recording system, developed by Peter Axon, 1952-1958.

EMI midget tape recorder, c.1950

Radio Communication

1950

EMI midget tape recorder, c. 1950. Serial no. 1253.

'Sunquest' Mean-Time Sundial, Designed by R. L. Schmoyer, 2001

Time Measurement

1959 (designed); 2001(made)

'Sunquest' mean time sundial, heliochronometer designed by R. L. Schmoyer, made by Tony Moss, Lindisfarne Sundials, Bedlington, Northumberland 2001. The castings were made in America from Schmoyer's original 1959 pattern designs, and now held held by the American Sundial Society.

Canon IIB camera

Photographic Technology

1950

Canon camera, made in occupied Japan. Leica 'lookalike' camera for 35mm film. Seranar f3.5 F:5cm lens No 11873. Focal plane shutter 1-1/500 sec. Coupled coincidence rangefinder. No 25524. Overall: 70 mm x 145 mm x 50 mm.

B.S.R. "Escort" reel-to-reel tape recorder size 13, 1956

Sound Reproduction

1956

B.S.R. "Escort" reel-to-reel tape recorder size 13 1/2" x 11 1/2" x 6 1/2" with instruction leaflet (microphone missing), c. 1956.

'Elemento', boxed educational chemistry game base

Science Teaching

1960

'Elemento', boxed educational chemistry game based on the elements of the Periodic Table by the Science Materials Center, Inc., a division of the Library of Science, New York, USA

Pathéscope Princess 9.5mm cine projector

Cinematography

c. 1959

Pathescope Princess projector, 1960. For 9.5mm film on 400 foot reels. Fitted with a colotar projection lens F: 32mm, helical screw focusing. Double claw intermittent, no sprockets. Gate and lens mount on hinged arm. Framing adjustment on claw mechanism. 22v prefocus lamp with mirror and condenser lenses. Push on, push off switch for lamp. Adcraft 200-250v electric motor, AC only, manufactured by R T Adcock & Co Ltd, London, Serial No 179A92. Provision for hand turning, for still projection. 4-core supply lead connected to transformer. Tripod support, legs detachable. 400 foot take up reel. Serial No RP 95 1702.

WAIS (Weschler Adult Intelligence Scale) test in b

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1955

WAIS (Weschler Adult Intelligence Scale) test in blue card box, comprised of a spiral bound book of Picture Arrangement tests, a spiral bound book of Picture Completion and Block Design Cards, a boxed Block Design test, 4 boxed Object Assembly tests, and card aids. Marked N.I.I.P. (National Institute for Industrial Psychology). (BPS Inv. No. 0079.)

Turntable engine, locomotive vacuum operated, by Cowans Shel

Stationary Engines

1950

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

Nelrod Liteflash camera

Photographic Technology

1950

Nelrod Liteflash camera. Press camera with built-in electronic flash head (seperate power pack missing); Schneider-Kreuznach Xenar lens F:135 f/4.7 Serial No 2624976. Synchro-Compur shutter; 1-1/500 sec. Coupled longbase coincidence rangefinder. Frame finder; sockets for Liteflash triggers and flashbulbs. Flash unit fitted with Mullard LSD3 flashbulb. In fitted case with 34 single metal darkslides.

USS Nautilus

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1954

Medal commemorating the launch of USS Nautilus, January 21, 1954 with box. Bronze; diameter 39mm. rim legend: Medallic Art Co. New York. obverse legend: U.S.S. Nautilus / World's First Nuclear Powered Vessel. obverse design: relief submarine over atomic symbol. reverse legend: Electric Boat Division / General Dynamics Corporation. Launched January 21, 1954 sponsored by Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower. relief design: motifs of submarine above pin, GD logo below pin

Murphy model A124 radio receiver, by Murphy Radio

Radio Communication

1948-1952

Murphy model A124 radio receiver, by Murphy Radio Limited, Murphy Radio Limited, 1944-1948. Restored 1979. 4-valve domestic receiver of flat baffle design anticipating "Festival of Britain" style of 1951

black-and-white television

Television

c. 1952

Model T1825 black-and-white television, made by Ferranti Ltd, Moston, Manchester, c.1952.

Phage typing machine, London, England, 1959

Public Health & Hygiene

1959

Phage typing machine used to determine bacteria strains present in multiple samples inoculated onto petri dishes, developed at the Public Health Laboratory Service, used particularly to identify strains of salmonella, 1959.