'Kissing' shuttle

Textile Industry

1937

Paper tensile tester made in Austria and supplied by J. J. Marshall and Co.

Papermaking

c.1900

Self- striped printed muslin dress

Temporary Exhibitions

Hopper bale opener

Textile Industry

1955

Dextralog electronic circuit board

Textile Industry

1974

Northrop loom

Textile Industry

1947

Hand-operated printing press made by Adana (Printing Machines) Ltd

Printing & Writing

Tape dispenser and Scotch sticky tape

Scientific Instruments & Research

2000-2004

'Squariel' Satellite dish

Television

Telephone lineman's headphone set

Telecommunications

c.1940

Laboratory coat worn by Geoff Tootill

Computing & Data Processing

1947

70-70F mass spectrometer

Scientific Instruments & Research

1974

ABC Wax copper roller

Handling Collection

telephone pole finial

Telecommunications

c.1930

'One Per Desk' microcomputer

Computing & Data Processing

1984; 1983

BBC Vision mixing desk

Television

c.1980

Wax printed cloth sample

Textile Industry

around 1990

Roving frame

Textile Industry

1927

Woollen shawl

Textile Industry

1880-1920

Carding engine

Textile Industry

1896

Cloth, dark blue and cream check

Textile Industry

1900

Platt Brothers Notice

Textile Industry

1898

Whitworth Planing Machine

Hand and Machine Tools

c.1842

Hand loom

Textile Industry

1825-1835

Ring spinning frame

Textile Industry

1901

Double-dialled longcase clock from Park Green Mill

Time Measurement

1800-1820

Audio cassette recorder with original box

Sound Reproduction

Transistor car radio

Radio Communication

c. 1960

MW valve radio receiver

Radio Communication

1939

Underground telephone cable marker

Telecommunications

c.1940

telephone exchange clock

Telecommunications

Replica of the Mr Fingal character puppet from the children's animated television series 'Cockleshell Bay'

Creative Industries

Sherlock Holmes dressing gown

Television

Dynamotor ringing generator

Telecommunications

1950

Four boxes of 'Manchester' rapid dry gelatine plates

Photographic Technology

c.1888

Drawing instrument set

Mathematics

c1890

Braun cathode ray tube

Television

1904

Stack assembly processor unit from S3L Estriel mainframe computer

Computing & Data Processing

1986; 1986

'Junior Special' single lens reflex camera

Photographic Technology

c.1927

'Emidicta' dictating machine

Sound Reproduction

c.1955

Model 312 table telephone

Telecommunications

1953

Mixing desk

Radio Communication

c.1980

Replica Arkwright water frame

Textile Industry

1983

'Dictaphone' dictating machine

Sound Reproduction

35mm cine projector

Cinematography

1906

Video cassette recorder with instruction manual and remote control

Domestic Appliances

1988

Overhead line wire-tensioning clamp

Telecommunications

1939

Black candlestick telephone No. 2 with transmitter no. 1

Telecommunications

1920

BBC B Micro Computer

Computing & Data Processing

c.1983

Compound Microscope

Scientific Instruments & Research

1860-1865