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Architect's drawing instruments

Chainomatic balance by Griffin and Tatlock

circa 1935

Compound microscope in walnut

Stereoscopic Viewing Cabinet, Pedestal Model, c 1880

1875-1885

King George III's archimedean screw

1762

Two bar magneto Wood wall telephone produced by Peel Conner

1904

Valve radio

circa 1935

Terrestrial telescope, 1670-1700.

1670-1700

Materials House

1999

novelty spyglass (prospect glass?), 2-draw tube, i

1701-1800

6 boxed Twaddell hydrometers

1870-1914

Stereoscopic Viewer

circa 1910

Mantel clock by Metamec

1950-1960

Month-going longcase clock in a marquetry case by George Stratford

1700-1725

Longcase clock with tidal dial by Christopher Pinchbeck

1715-1725

Longcase clock in a marquetry case by William Cattell

1675-1685

Eight-day longcase clock by Edward East in a later marquetry case

1675-1685

Marine timekeeper by Henry Sully, Paris, 1724

1724

Printing Block Used in Flexographic Printing, 1940-1977

1940-1977

small telescope (prospect glass; spyglass; opera glass)

1759

HMV Model 907 Combined Radio and Television Receiver

1938

Scioptic ball with fixed mirror, 1745-1755

1745-1755

Roberts type monaural stethoscope, reputedly English, 1870-1880

1870-1880

Ell Rod, German, 1700-1799

1700-1799

Post mortem set

1877-1900

Barometer by Daniel Quare

1695-1705

Eclipse Demonstration Model

1867

Table clock in walnut case by Henry Jones

1675

Eight-day longcase clock by Justin Vulliamy

1745-1755

Month-going longcase clock by John May

1700-1710

Table, folding oval topped, walnut, ex Royal Saloon, Wolverton, c.1929, painted 'Royal Saloons Wolverton' underneath, made by carpenter J.R. Gould.

Walnut table, ex Royal Saloon

The Patent Revolving Album 9. Walnut carte-de-visite automatic viewer holding 26 cartes-de-visite in 13 holders, on walnut cradle with carved legs. Key in bottom.

The Patent Revolving Album 9. Walnut carte-de-visite automatic viewer holding 26 cartes-de-visite in 13 holders

1875-1885

Silver coffee pot with walnut handle, on tripod with spirit burner mounted on stand beneath, made by Matthew Boulton, Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, spirit burner made 1810, pot and stand 1811

Silver coffee pot with walnut handle

1810-1811

Spatula part of dry smear test, part of a kit branded CerviKit by Cellpath. Similar kits for conventional (dry) smear tests were used in hospitals until 2003

Spatula used for dry smear test

1960-2003

One of twenty six eyepieces, in wooden mounts made by William Herschel and used with his own reflecting telescopes, Slough, England, 1780-1800. Inscribed D1.

One of twenty six reflecting telescope eyepieces, in wooden mounts

1780-1800

Pedestal stereoscope on telescopic stand with ornamental carved wood bracket supports. Lens adjusted for interocular separation by moving card holder. Rollers with tinted curtains for transparencies, in front of ground glass; similar arrangement for cards above holder (curtain missing). Hinged lid with mirror.

The Natural Stereoscope

Linos plate camera, made by Romain Talbot, Berlin. Folding wooden plate camera for 9 x 12 cm plates. RR lens F:6", f8.4-64; one blade shutter settings marked 1-9 and Z cocked by key. Sliding rising front ; swing front, sliding focussing. (M4635)

Linos Plate camera

circa 1898

Adze, North Eastern Railway. Found at South Pelaw Sidings signalbox.

Adze, North Eastern Railway. Found at South Pelaw Sidings signalbox.

Stand camera for 13 x 18cm plates. No makers name (but probably French or German). Folding plate camera in walnut with nickel fittings. No lens or panel. Sliding rising and cross front. Front fixed, back adjustable in three positions with peg and keyslot fittings. Rack and pinion focussing, double extension bellows. Hinged baseplate locked by sliding element. With one bookform wooden double darkslide.

Stand camera for 13 x 18cm plates

1900

Cabinet approx 253x510x280mm; walnut veneer with inlaid corners; rack focused eyepieces (hoods chipped); Fluted glass knobs for turning belt of stereograph holders (tape broken); Hinged lids, one with mirror; ground glass (cracked).

Cabinet stereoscope

Stereoscopic viewer for pictures 3 1/2 x 6 inches. Made of polished walnut. Fitted with two mirrors. The two Achromatic lens are focused by rack and pinion. The viewer fits into a walnut box. Beck, c. 1910.

Stereoscopic Viewer

circa 1910

Walnut veneer; 2 pairs of viewing lenses in sliding focus mounts, hinged for access to lens rears; wooden frames on tapes for stereographs; wooden operating knobs; 2 hinged lid with mirrors.

Double-sided Cabinet Stereoscope

Homeopathic medicine chest, rectangular, London, England, 1880-1910.

Homeopathic medicine chest

1880-1910

Newtonian reflecting telescope, made to specifications of Leon Foucault (originally fitted with silver-on-glass mirror) by Secretan, mounted on wooden table stand, Paris, 1857-1868. Accessories include three eye-pieces in fitted leather lined wooden case.

Newtonian Reflecting Telescope, by Secretan, 1857-1868

1857-1868

Early bell telephone and terminal panel, 1877/8, used at Osborne Cottage, 14th January 1878

Early Bell telephone and terminal panel, 1877/8

1877-1878

Barometer by Watkins, London, England, 1747-1765

Barometer, by Francis Watkins, 1747-1765

1747-1765

Portrait of William Hancock by Charles Hancock, oil on canvas . William Hancock is depicted seated half length. He wears a black coat and his left arm rests on a raised object, possibly the back of a chair. The background is a gradient of black to brown. The painting is in a rectangular frame of walnut wood with a gilt beading inner. A plaque beneath the painting reads ‘WILLIAM HANCOCK. BORN JULY 1788’.

Portrait of William Hancock by Charles Hancock

circa 1819-1877