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Stone sculpture of R J Mitchell

2005

Strop, for razor sharpening

1801-1900

Votive slate from Donegal deposited at a holy well

1851-1915

Record album containing eight 78 rpm EMI test records for checking the mechanical and audio performance of autochange radio-gramophones, together with five commercial 78 rpm records selected for demonstrating radio-gramophones in salerooms. Made by the Gramophone Company Ltd (EMI), Hayes, Middlesex, British,1930-1940

1930-1940

Compo, gilded rosette

1790-1819

Etching in slate showing the Three Graces

1790-1819

Small black slate palette with short handle and base carved in form of flat fish

3500-1000

Part of calibration table ex Kew Observatory

Stone with painted figure of goddess Siva

1701-1900

Mortar, bowl shape, carved from fairly smooth stone

1-1900

Edison cut-out and bolt switch

Woodhouse & Rawson attracted coil cut-out

Gramophone record, double-sided, 10 inch, 78 rpm, His Master’s Voice, catalogue number D.A.1548, Jussi Bjorling, ‘La Donna e Mobile’ and ‘Recondita Armonia’, made by the Gramophone Co Ltd, British, 1925-1935

1930-1940

Materials House

1999

Reproduction in alabaster, profile bust

1810

Model of Callendar's Sunshine Receiver, 19th Century

1895-1910

Slate tobacco jar, United Kingdom, 1877-1879

1877-1879

Gramophone record, double-sided, 12 inch, 78 rpm, His Master’s Voice, catalogue number C.1329, Ernest Lough and the Choir of the Temple Church, London, ‘Hear My Prayer’ and ‘Oh, for the Wings of a Dove’, made by the Gramophone Co Ltd, British, 1925-1935

1925-1935

Cosmetic grinding slab

1000-100 BCE

Fragment of prayer plaque

1801-1900

Etching in slate depicting cows

1790-1819

Reproduction in marble, profile bust

1790-1819

Plastering on slate, in display cabinet, from 'Greenmount', Manchester

1870

Tobacco jar

1850-1910

Record album

1930-1940

Crompton lightning arrestor - 1883

1883

Motor starting switch resistances in sand box

Shaving equipment

1750-1850

Hedges's fusible cut-out with mica foil fuse

Slate knife used for circumcision

1701-1900

Campbell-Stokes type burning-glass sunshine recorder, 1899

1899

Notice, Norfolk Railway Byelaws made by the Company pursuant to Act of Parliament, slate, Secretary Richard Tille.

Slate notice, Norfolk Railway

Noticeboard, engraved slate in wooden frame, Great Northern Railway, GNR Telegraph Dept Newark Station.

Great Northern Railway noticeboard

Gramophone record, double-sided, 12 inch, 78 rpm, His Master’s Voice, catalogue number C.2964, New Mayfair Orchestra, ‘Gilbert and Sullivan – Selection’ (parts 1 and 2), made by the Gramophone Co Ltd, British, 1925-1935

Gramophone record, double-sided, 12 inch, 78 rpm, His Master’s Voice, catalogue number C.2964, New Mayfair Orchestra, ‘Gilbert and Sullivan – Selection’ (parts 1 and 2), made by the Gramophone Co Ltd, British, 1925-1935

1925-1935

Gramophone record, double-sided, 12 inch, 78 rpm, His Master’s Voice, catalogue number C.3128, The Light Opera Company, ‘”The Mikado” vocal gems’ (parts 1 and 2), made by the Gramophone Co Ltd, British,1935-1940

Gramophone record, double-sided, 12 inch, 78 rpm, His Master’s Voice, catalogue number C.3128, The Light Opera Company, ‘”The Mikado” vocal gems’ (parts 1 and 2), made by the Gramophone Co Ltd, British,1935-1940

1935-1940

Thin sheets of slate(?) coated with photoelectric medium with zigzag scratching. Dated 17/11/16 and 20/7/16.

Experimental Photoelectrical Cells

Gramophone record, double-sided, 12 inch, 78 rpm, Columbia, catalogue number LX19, Solomon (piano) and the Hallé Orchestra, Tchaikovsky Concerto No 1 in B flat minor, first movement, parts 1 and 2, made by the Columbia Graphophone Co Ltd, British, 1925-1935

Gramophone record, double-sided, 12 inch, 78 rpm, Columbia, catalogue number LX19, Solomon (piano) and the Hallé Orchestra, Tchaikovsky Concerto No 1 in B flat minor, first movement, parts 1 and 2, made by the Columbia Graphophone Co Ltd, British, 1925-1935

1925-1935

Green slate cosmetic grinding slab in form of two pigeons, Egyptian, 4000-3000 BCE

Green slate cosmetic grinding slab in form of two pigeons

4000-3000 BCE

Robinson-Beckley anemometer by Munro, 1872, recorder only.

Robinson-Beckley anemometer by Munro

1872

Howlett anemograph by Elliott Bros., 1868 type.

1868-1893

Rectangular, shallow slate palette and small palette knife, possibly Egyptian, 3000BC-500

Rectangular, shallow slate palette and small palette knife

3000-500

Switchgear and transformer designed by S. Z. de Ferranti, from the 10kV/2.5kV electricity substation that operated between 1891 and 1933 at Trafalgar Square/Cockspur St., London, supplied from Deptford power station. (Used in partial reconstruction of the substation displayed between about 1957 and 1977.)

Switchgear and transformer designed by S. Z. de Ferranti

1891

Gramophone record, double-sided, 10 inch, 78 rpm, His Master’s Voice, catalogue number D.A.1548, Jussi Bjorling, ‘La Donna e Mobile’ and ‘Recondita Armonia’, made by the Gramophone Co Ltd, British, 1925-1935

Gramophone record, double-sided, 10 inch, 78 rpm, His Master’s Voice, catalogue number D.A.1548, Jussi Bjorling, ‘La Donna e Mobile’ and ‘Recondita Armonia’, made by the Gramophone Co Ltd, British, 1925-1935

1925-1935

Copper pyrheliometer, by Stanley, 1885.

Copper pyrheliometer, with stand, base and components

1885

Branch fuse, slate base, 1888.

Branch fuse

1888

Slab of slate, possibly a table top, European, 1801-1900

Slab of slate

1801-1900

Fragment of slate knife, possibly used later as amulet, Northwest Coast, 1800-1850

Fragment of slate knife

1800-1850

Photothermograph commissioned by the Meteorological Committee of the Royal Society, some design specifications attributed to Francis Ronalds, made in England, UK, 1867. Installed and operated at Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford.

Photothermograph used at Radcliffe Observatory, Oxford

1867