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Acoustic Sea Bottom Sonar Beacon, 1967

1967

Sample of Terylene

1940-1947

Mobius Strip Linear Motor

1974

Fibre-glass Copy of a Roman Hemicycle Sundial, 1959-1969

1959-1969

climate change tile coaster

2006-2008

Sample of Terylene

1940-1947

Cabin floor ‘F-Board’ composite, with aluminium honeycomb core and woven roving fibre-glass sheet on both sides; a taped-on label reads: “… These pieces are the cut-outs for the two little windows. Ciba-Geigy ‘F Board’ + Glass-Fibre honey comb intl aluminium core.”, by Ciba-Geigy, Basel, Switzerland, 1970-1973. From high altitude, pressurized hot-air balloon ‘Daffodil II’ cabin: with the overall design specification by Julian Nott, England; cabin shell structure designed by Roger Munk at Aerospace Developments, London, England, and Tony Offredi, England; and constructed by Maidboats Limited, Thames Ditton, Surrey, England, 1973. On 25th February 1974, Julian Nott and Felix Pole used ‘Daffodil II’, to break the world hot-air balloon altitude record. They reached a height of 13,961 metres near Lake Bhopal, central India.

Cabin floor sample, from hot-air balloon ‘Daffodil II’ cabin: 1974 world altitude record holder

1970-1973

Cabin floor ‘F-Board’ composite, with aluminium honeycomb core and woven roving fibre-glass sheet on both sides; an affixed paper label reads: “Part Hot Air Balloon cabin floor. 1974-593 (From Julian Nott)”, by Ciba-Geigy, Basel, Switzerland, 1970-1973. From high altitude, pressurized hot-air balloon ‘Daffodil II’ cabin: with the overall design specification by Julian Nott, England; cabin shell structure designed by Roger Munk at Aerospace Developments, London, England, and Tony Offredi, England; and constructed by Maidboats Limited, Thames Ditton, Surrey, England, 1973. On 25th February 1974, Julian Nott and Felix Pole used ‘Daffodil II’, to break the world hot-air balloon altitude record. They reached a height of 13,961 metres near Lake Bhopal, central India.

Cabin floor sample, from hot-air balloon ‘Daffodil II’ cabin: 1974 world altitude record holder

1970-1973

Six fibreglass sections, each 3ft long, forming the major part, tapering overall from 0.10m to 2.16m, of a horn loudspeaker made to the same internal dimensions as the Science Museum logarithmic or exponential loudspeaker designed by R P G Denman in 1929, British, 2013

Fibreglass sections, forming the major part of a horn loudspeaker

2013

Cabin floor ‘F-Board’ composite, with aluminium honeycomb infill and woven roving fibre-glass sheet on both sides, by Ciba-Geigy, Basel, Switzerland, 1970-1973. From high altitude, pressurized hot-air balloon cabin: ‘Daffodil II’, with the overall design specification by Julian Nott, England; cabin shell structure designed by Roger Munk at Aerospace Developments, London, England, and Tony Offredi, England; and constructed by Maidboats Limited, Thames Ditton, Surrey, England, 1973. On 25th February 1974, Julian Nott and Felix Pole used ‘Daffodil II’, to break the world hot-air balloon altitude record. They reached a height of 13,961 metres near Lake Bhopal, central India.

Cabin floor sample, from hot-air balloon ‘Daffodil II’ cabin: 1974 world altitude record holder

1970-1973

Cabin shell woven-roving carbon fibre and fibre-glass sheet sample; a taped-on label reads: “Sample piece of cabin shell made before construction of cabin”, designed by Roger Munk at Aerospace Developments, London, England, and Tony Offredi, England and constructed by Maidboats Limited, Thames Ditton, Surrey, England, 1973. From high altitude, pressurized hot-air balloon cabin: ‘Daffodil II’, with the overall design specification by Julian Nott, England; cabin shell structure designed by Roger Munk at Aerospace Developments, London, England, and Tony Offredi, England; and constructed by Maidboats Limited, Thames Ditton, Surrey, England, 1973. On 25th February 1974, Julian Nott and Felix Pole used ‘Daffodil II’, to break the world hot-air balloon altitude record. They reached a height of 13,961 metres near Lake Bhopal, central India.

Cabin shell sample, from hot-air balloon ‘Daffodil II’ cabin: 1974 world altitude record holder

1973