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Folder of documentary material concerning a family of microscope manufacturers

Folder of documentary material concerning a family of microscope manufacturers

1883-1989
Collection of metal foreign bodies mounted on card

Collection of metal foreign bodies mounted on card

Collection illustrating the development of acetylene burners

Collection illustrating the development of acetylene burners

The P.B. Walker papers

The P.B. Walker papers

1901-2000
Collection of Artefacts and Personal Papers belonging to Leon Becker

Collection of Artefacts and Personal Papers belonging to Leon Becker

Collection of "Fennings" drugs and related material

Collection of "Fennings" drugs and related material

Items from the Pharmaceutical collection

Items from the Pharmaceutical collection

Felt covered roller

Felt covered roller

1870-1915
Items from MRC Common Cold Unit

Items from MRC Common Cold Unit

1946-1990
Green tubing, black rubber ring, red cap and 1ml syringe

Green tubing, black rubber ring, red cap and 1ml syringe

1968
Small fragments from glass distillation apparatus

Small fragments from glass distillation apparatus

The Jean Straker Photographic Archive

The Jean Straker Photographic Archive

Several hermetically sealed nickel cadmium cells

Several hermetically sealed nickel cadmium cells

A simplified system of reading for the blind, by William Moon FRGS

A simplified system of reading for the blind, by William Moon FRGS

Graham Loan Collection.

Graham Loan Collection.

1863
Collection of items from the Rocket Propulsion Establishment Westcott

Collection of items from the Rocket Propulsion Establishment Westcott

1958-1960
Collection of artefacts from the Asylum Museum

Collection of artefacts from the Asylum Museum

Models, macquettes and posters used in various television and film productions manufactured by Jim Henson's Creature Shop.

Models, macquettes and posters used in various television and film productions

Billboard lithograph advertisement in five pieces for Fennings’ Rheumatic Tablets to ‘relive pain arising from muscular rheumatism, neuritis, arthritis and neuralgia, from chemists and stores everywhere’ showing a person in a blue suit, white shirt and light brown tie, holding a tin of Fennings’ tablets and the words “What a relief!”, by Press and General Publishing Service Ltd, London

Fennings’ Rheumatic Tablets billboard advertisement

Part of billboard lithograph advertisement for Fennings’ Rheumatic Tablets showing the hands of a person holding Fennings' Rheumatic Tablets, by Press and General Publishing Service Ltd, London

Fennings’ Rheumatic Tablets billboard advertisement

Part of billboard lithograph advertisement for Fennings’ Rheumatic Tablets showing the words "relieve pain" "muscular" from chemists", by Press and General Publishing Service Ltd, London

Fennings’ Rheumatic Tablets billboard advertisement

Part of billboard lithograph advertisement for Fennings’ Fever Mixture showing image of clouds, by Press and General Publishing Service Ltd, London

Fennings’ Fever Mixture billboard advertisement

Collection of structural parts for General Electric X-Ray including 3 black wooden feet each with 2 verticle legs with bulbous grey caps with loops, 1 metal component with 2 attached circular grey metal pullys and multiple wires attached. Includes 2 metal mechanical tubing components, an additional broken pully roundel, and a black metal component removed from body of X-Ray.

Collection of structural parts for General Electric X-Ray

Part of billboard lithograph advertisement for Fennings’ Indigestion Tablets with the words ‘wisest cour’ showing a person in a black dinner jacket, white shirt and black bowtie, wearing glasses, holding a white tablet, by Press and General Publishing Service Ltd, London

Fennings’ Indigestion Tablets billboard advertisement

Part of billboard lithograph advertisement for Fennings’ Little Healers with the letters ‘fection', showing an illustration of a bus, by Press and General Publishing Service Ltd, London

Fennings’ Little Healers billboard advertisement

Part of billboard lithograph advertisement for Fennings’ Little Healers with the letters ‘owds spread inf', and showing illustration of people, by Press and General Publishing Service Ltd, London

Fennings’ Little Healers billboard advertisement

Part of billboard lithograph advertisement for Fennings’ Whooping Cough Mixture showing the words 'Mummy', 'whooping' and 'for other dry', by Press and General Publishing Service Ltd, London

Fennings’ Whooping Cough Mixture billboard advertisement

Part of billboard lithograph advertisement for Fennings’ Children’s Powders with the words ‘For all teething troubles…', by Press and General Publishing Service Ltd, London

Fennings’ Children's Powders billboard advertisement

Part of billboard lithograph advertisement for Fennings’ Whooping Cough Mixture showing the words 'gave us, 'cough mixture' and 'coughs too', by Press and General Publishing Service Ltd, London

Fennings’ Whooping Cough Mixture billboard advertisement

Part of billboard lithograph advertisement for Fennings’ Indigestion Tablets with the words ‘trouble’ and 'tablets', by Press and General Publishing Service Ltd, London

Fennings’ Indigestion Tablets billboard advertisement

Part of billboard lithograph advertisement for Fennings’ Indigestion Tablets with the words ‘wisest cour’ showing a person in a black dinner jacket, white shirt and black bowtie, wearing glasses, holding a white tablet, by Press and General Publishing Service Ltd, London

Fennings’ Indigestion Tablets billboard advertisement

Part of billboard lithograph advertisement for Fennings’ Little Healers with the letters ‘Cr', by Press and General Publishing Service Ltd, London

Fennings’ Little Healers billboard advertisement

Patent Specifications and Papers relating to Patent Law Suit of 1913-1915. Part of Charles Urban Archive.

Patent Specifications and Papers relating to Patent Law Suit of 1913-1915

1913-1915
Papers of Edward Raymond Turner relating to colour cinematography and agreements with Charles Urban, 1898-c 1907. Part of Charles Urban Archive.

Papers of Edward Raymond Turner relating to colour cinematography and agreements with Charles Urban

1898-c 1907
[Collection of miscellaneous historical material re W.F. Stanley & Co. Ltd. ca. 1879-1987. Comprises financial records; ms. instrument number books (for theodolites, levels, planimeters, sextants etc.); papers re operations in India, etc. Some legal documents go back to 1796. 9 boxes + 2 lever-arch files + 6 folders. Listing available]

Collection of miscellaneous historical material re W.F. Stanley & Co. Ltd. ca. 1879-1987

circa 1879-1987
[The R.E.B. Crompton Historic Collection. Comprises papers re the life and work of Crompton in electrical engineering and road transport, and including material relating to Crompton & Co. Ltd. and Crompton Parkinson Ltd. Includes correspondence; books and offprints; product catalogues and brochures of the above companies; photographs etc. Personal material includes diaries, and numerous references to his time in the Crimea (during the war), in India (1858-60, 1890-99) and South Africa (1900). Also includes material re the 'Crompton Museum' and associated Crompton subjects. 1853-1969. 1 cupboard; listing available, which includes, at the back, indexes to the collection which were compiled prior to the collection coming to the Science Museum. Not all the items in these indexes still exist; where they are missing there is a note to this effect in the main listing]

The R.E.B. Crompton Historic Collection

circa 1853-1969
[Collection of papers (1915-1919) compiled by Sir Henry Norman, relating to his work during the first World War in the Directorate of Munitions. Norman was the liaison officer, based in Paris, between the British Ministry of Munitions and the French Ministry of Inventions. His reports were produced for the British Ministry's Munition Inventions Department. Comprises c.850 reports, (some of which are duplicates), including a number of special reports and letters. 3 boxes. Listing available]

Collection of papers (1915-1919) compiled by Sir Henry Norman

1915-1919
[Papers re the life and work of the Hon. Sir Charles Algernon Parsons and his companies. ca.1880-1930. Includes run of personal notebooks, 1881-1919; collection of printed papers, of 64 of which Parsons was author or co-author. (9 boxes)]

Papers re the life and work of the Hon. Sir Charles Algernon Parsons

circa 1880-1930
[Collection of H.W.Dickinson consisting of printed articles, research notes and biographical details for historical persons and topics of significance in science and technology. 13 boxes, listing available]

Collection of H.W.Dickinson consisting of printed articles, research notes and biographical details

circa 1920-1950
[Collection of A. Nemet, comprising brochures, leaflets, press releases, newspaper cuttings re numerous aspects of the use, production and measurement of radioactivity, collected by Dr Anthony Nemet at the United Nations International Conference on the peaceful uses of Atomic Energy in August 1955 (many companies exhibited at the simultaneous Exposition) or sent to him following the conference. Also Philips Balham Works Ltd., Radiation Laboratory Programme File (Dr Nemet was Research and Development Director of the Philips X-ray factory in Balham, 1941-57). 1 box. Listing available]

Collection of A. Nemet

1955-1957
[The Helen M. Wilson windmill collection / compiled by H.M. Wilson. A collection, 1930s-1950s, largely of photographic and postcard exterior views of windmills, mostly in Kent and Sussex, in particular of Union Mill, Cranbrook, owned and operated by the Russell family from 1832 to 1958. 1 box + 1 ring binder. Listing available]

The Helen M. Wilson windmill collection

1930-1959
Remainder of items on 1991-5005 (First stroke & part numbers created to record radioactive items. Remainder of collection to be catalogued by curators at NMPFTV).

Remainder of items

Small collection of items for photographic developing and printing.

Small collection of items for photographic developing and printing

Collection of 11 (eleven) objects illustrating the production of two designs of spearheads by the Cire Perdue method. Manufactured by Leon Underwood, c. 1957

11 objects illustrating the production of two designs of spearheads

1957
Collection of industrial respirators and goggles

Collection of industrial respirators and goggles

6 items relating to chiropody; 1 photograph dated June 22 1950, London, 1 dinner card - Society of Chiropodists, Annual Dinner, Friday 23 June 1950, 4 booklets - 50th anniversary issue of British Journal of Chiropody, July 1983; The Chiropodist, London, 1914; Chiropody Practioner Vol. VI, No.1. February 1939; Reprint from British Journal of Chiropody - 'The Footman Chiropodial Museum of Foot Care and Footwear by Colin Dagnall, Vol.50. no.12, December 1985.

6 items relating to chiropody; 1 photograph, 1 dinner card,

[Papers, photographs and drawings re work of T.J. Biggs on the design of bicycles, motorcycles and motor cars, ca.1888-1954. Papers contain particulars of Biggs's work at numerous manufacturing companies (cuttings, technical drawings, patents, photographs), as well as biographical details. Larger items are shelved at MSL165. 1 box + 8 slipcases, listing available]

Papers, photographs and drawings re work of T.J. Biggs on the design of bicycles

circa 1888-1954
[Central Office of Information collection of photos, prints, transparencies and slides of technical and scientific subjects. Selected from former C.O.I. photograph library. Chiefly 1970s? Some of the images are historical, although the prints (i.e. engravings) are mostly from printed books and encyclopaedias. Subjects include portraits. The C.O.I. photo library hired out stock for reference purposes until its closure in 1988. 484 files in 50 boxes, listing available]

Central Office of Information collection of photos

1970-1979
Archive of the Royal Society of Arts Environmental Award Scheme from 1983-1992 [c.20 boxes]

Royal Society of Arts Environmental Award Scheme

1983-1992
[Papers of the Bidder family, chiefly business enterprises (docks and mines) of George Parker Bidder QC, (GPBII, eldest son of GPBI) 1836-1891. Papers cover period approximately 1860-1900. One or two items re GPB I date from the 1840s-50s; numerous items re Cannock Chase Colliery date up to 1950. 23 archive boxes, 13 vols., 5 slipcases; listing available. NB: other caches of Bidder II & III material are held at Cambridge University Library. See also inv. no. 1997-844 for the papers of GPBidder I]

Bidder family papers

circa 1860-1900