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Capacitance bridge type A-168-A, no. 314034, by Muirhead & Co. Ltd.

Telecommunications

1958

McVitie Weston valve collection, STC Klystron valve, type VX. 7136

Electronic Components

c. 1955

Stabilizer unit for autoset level, by Hilger & Wat

Surveying

1959

Reagent Spot test kit

Experimental Chemistry

c. 1960

Set of six targets with backing plates, plummets,

Surveying

1960
Black Knight re-entry head, sectioned, 1957

Black Knight re-entry head, sectioned, 1957

Space Technology

1957

Stanford Binet Intelligence Scale for Children; or

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1960

Victor Bulkhead Roadway electric lamp

Coal Mining

C.1960
Model of the Harwell controlled Zero Energy Thermonuclear Assembly (ZETA), scale 1:24, by Miniature Engineering (London) Ltd., London, SW1, 1958. With perspex shade made in Museum workshops. On 24 January 1958, UKAEA scientists claimed that thermonuclear fusion had been achieved in the ZETA experimental fusion reactor but these claims were later withdrawn. (Note: ZETA is sometimes incorrectly expanded as Zero Energy Thermal Apparatus). (Controlled fusion of atoms)

Model of ZETA nuclear fusion device, 1954-1958.

Nuclear Energy

1958

Man with cardigan and pipe

Photographs

c. 1955

EAI Pace TR-48 Analogue Computer c.1960

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1960

"Duaflex" Flash Holder

Photographic Technology

1955-1960

Mercury nitrogen-filled normal immersion thermometer

Heat

1960

Kenwood 'Chef' food mixer and

Domestic Appliances

c1957

Babysitter watches children on CCTV system

Photographs

02 March 1960

Granada TV Building sign

Creative Industries

after 1956

Mechanical analogue computer,

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1955

DEUCE computer magnetic drum store

Computing & Data Processing

1955

Contact photograph of children riding an elephant at Bertram Mills Circus

Photographs

1960-05-08

Modernisation Stafford New Station

Railway Posters, Notices & Handbills

1960

portsmouth and southsea - go by train

Railway Posters, Notices & Handbills

1959

York, Exhibition Square

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1960

Lincolnshire - Spalding

Railway Posters, Notices & Handbills

1960

model London & North Western Railway 4 -plank wagon

Railway Models

1959

Bournemouth for Winter Warmth

Railway Posters, Notices & Handbills

1957

Weston-super-Mare

Railway Posters, Notices & Handbills

c. 1960

its less of a strain to travel by train

Railway Posters, Notices & Handbills

1960

Henry Tudor Earl of Richmond King Henry VII of England

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1955

Machine for solving cubic equations

Mathematics

1956

Numicator type XN3-T6507 by Hyvac, c1960.

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1960

Cardox cartridge, sectioned, c

Coal Mining

c. 1960

Punch Grinder (side)

Printing & Writing

1960

Hand Burring Device

Printing & Writing

1955

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

Time Measurement

1959 (designed); 2001(made)

Linotype Model 79

Printing & Writing

1959

Wing model used during the investigation of the Concorde wing shape

Farnborough

about 1960

Thermos flask 'Sunshine', regd. design 858467. Mad

Domestic Appliances

1955

Boxer Sandy Manuel as Father Christmas

Photographs

1958-12-04
Tin of Cusson's Imperial Leather talcum powder. Made in England by Cusson's, 84 Brook Street, Grosvenor Square, London W1. c. 1955.

Tin of Cusson's Imperial Leather talcum powder. Ma

Domestic Appliances

c. 1955

Food mixer model KM31 with attachments

Domestic Appliances

c.1960

Ceramic Ernie money box

Computing & Data Processing

1957

Star finder and identifier: 10 transparent templat

Astronomy

1958

Wing model used during the investigation of the Concorde wing shape

Farnborough

about 1960

Wing model used during the investigation of the Concorde wing shape

Farnborough

about 1960

Leaflet relating to smoking, London, England, c. 1957

Public Health & Hygiene

1956-1958

Paperweight commemorating The Eighth Congress of The International Society of Blood Transfusion

Public Health & Hygiene

1960

'Fialka' Cipher machine (10 rotor) with Cyrillic (Russian) characters

Mathematics

after 1958

"Eddystone" 680/2A communications receiver; Stratt

Radio Communication

1955
Wind tunnel model of the Scimitar aircraft. Made in the Royal Aircraft Establishment workshops.

Wind tunnel model of the Scimitar aircraft.

Farnborough

c. 1955

Wing model used during the investigation of the Concorde wing shape

Farnborough

about 1960