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Model of an Aga cooker, c. 1930

1925-1935
Belling Compact Super Four Electric Cooker, c.1970

Belling Compact Super Four electric cooker

1965-1975
Belling Rotadine Oven, 1965

Belling Rotadine oven/hotplate, 1965.

1965
"Kingsway" New World all-enamelled gas cooker in fashion colours of cream and royal blue, with thermostatically controlled oven, grill, four burners and plate rack, by Fletcher, Russell and Co. Ltd. (Radiation Ltd.) Warrington, 1933-1937

Kingsway' New World gas cooker, c. 1935.

1933-1937
One of the first belling "Modernette" electric cookers with oven, plat e warmer, hotplate and griller-boiler, all with exposed coiled-wire heating elements, of compact mild sheet steel construction specifically designed for use in a small house or flat, by Belling and Co. Ltd., En field, 1919

Belling 'Modernette' electric cooker

1919
Creda electric cooker with oven, cast metal hotplate-griller, red-ring hotplate (a later addition); one of the early electric cookers to be fitted with a Credastat automatic oven thermostat patented by the Credenda Conduit Co. Ltd. of Birmingham, whole cooker enamelled in mottled pale grey, by Simplex Electric Co. ltd., Birmingham, 1933

Creda New Series electric cooker fitted with Credastat thermostat

1933
Gas cooker designed by James Sharp (a pioneer of domestic gas cooking technology) and manufactured by W. M. Lankester and Son of Southampton, sheet iron construction, top box missing, 1845-1855

Gas cooker, c. 1850.

1845-1855
"Magnet" electric cooker HO920, cast iron with enamelled drip tray and nickel-plated hob, with three hotplates, grill, plate warming compartment and oven with enamelled linings and double glass door, with 2-pin socket for additional electrical appliances, by General Electric Company, English, 1925-1930

GEC 'Magnet' electric cooker

1925-1930
Oxidising oven used in the early development of carbon fibre at RAE, Farnborough, containing polyacrilonitrite in various stages of oxidation, mid 1960s

Carbon fibre oxidising oven, mid 1960s.

1963-1967
Electric oven using the Archer system with, heating elements of coiled wire wound around ceramic formers placed at top and bottom of oven, o f sheet metal construction on a steel frame, by General Electric Company, English, 1895-1910

Electric oven, by GEC, 1895-1910.

1895-1910
"Beeton" electric oven, cast iron with two removeable circular coiled wire heating elements on each side of oven, embedded in firebrick to give red heat and thereby simulate roasting before an open fire, with two heat control switches, by General Electric Company Ltd., English, 1905-1910

Electric cooker

1905-1910
No. 2 Standard gas cooker, representing an early attempt by the National Gas Council to produce a standard cooker throughout the industry, enamelled iron with lagged oven, double grill, two burners and plate rack, English, 1927

No. 2 'Standard' gas cooker, National Gas Council design, 1927.

1927
Metro' gas cooker no. 370750, designed for South Metropolitan Gas Company, cast iron construction with oven, grill, two hob rings, plate rack and enamelled splash back and oven linings, intended for hiring out to new consumers, 1920-1925

Metro' gas cooker no. 370750, c. 1920.

1920-1925
Dutch oven, a device for speeding up the roasting of small meats in front of an open fire, with basting spoon and with brass spring-driven bottle jack by Mather and Armstrong of Newcastle, English, 1850-1900

Dutch oven, with basting spoon and cylindrical clockwork jack., c. 1850-1900.

1850-1900
GEC 'Magnet' electric cooker, cast iron with steel trim and hinges. Grill, oven, and two cast-metal hotplates with enclosed elements. Rotary switch controls made in the USA by The Hart & Hegeman Manufacturing Co., 1910-1920.

GEC 'Magnet' electric cooker

1910-1920
Cast iron electric cooker no. EC216 with four hotplates, hot closet, grill, oven with inner glass door and enamelled linings, and with switches and fuses mounted on a separate wooden board, all originally installed in the Croydon home of Samuel Rogers (chairman of Croydon electricity committee), by the Carron Company, Falkirk, Scotland, 1912-1913

Carron electric cooker

1912-1913
"Magnet" electric cooker DC435, by General Electric Co., English, 1935-1940

GEC 'Magnet' electric cooker

1935-1940
'Veritas' paraffin cooker comprising cooker unit fixed to metal table with glass reservoir and pair of annular Argand burners with hotplates above, and separate portable metal oven which is placed on top of hotplates when needed, for use in rural areas without gas or electricity supplies, by Veritas-Atmos, English, 1925-1935

Veritas-Atmos paraffin cooker, c. 1930.

1925-1935
"Magnet" electric storage cooker DC86, by the General Electric Company, English, 1930-1935

GEC 'Magnet' Electric Storage Cooker

1930-1935