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Clockwork timer for operating an external lever (to control gas or electricity supply)

Clockwork timer for operating an external lever (to control gas or electricity supply)

1939-1949

Kwik-set lab chron laboratory timer

Kwik-set lab chron laboratory timer

1980-1984

Solar dial from Horstmann patent clockwork street light controller

Solar dial from Horstmann patent clockwork street light controller

1904-1910

Clockwork timer used by renal dialysis patients

Clockwork timer used by renal dialysis patients

1940-1980

Clockwork-driven timer

Clockwork-driven timer

1940-1974

Interval Timer

Interval Timer

1970-1984

Triple-pole changeover time-switch, 1930-1960

Triple-pole changeover time-switch, 1930-1960

1930-1960

Synchronous motor driven timer of a type used for controlling street lighting

Synchronous motor driven timer of a type used for controlling street lighting

1940-1974

Electronic digital countdown timer

Electronic digital countdown timer

1997-1999

Reconstruction, of Thurgar's pioneer street light gas controller

Reconstruction, of Thurgar's pioneer street light gas controller

Interval timer with five-point selection switch

Interval timer with five-point selection switch

1968

Guided weapon timer (Type unspecified)

Guided weapon timer (Type unspecified)

1960-1975

Drop timer

Drop timer

1968

Racend Timer by Dawe

Racend Timer by Dawe

Fisherbrand™ Traceable™ Big-Digit Timer

Fisherbrand™ Traceable™ Big-Digit Timer

2020-2021

Direct writing interval timer

Direct writing interval timer

1968

timer

timer

Dark room timers, 1-10 minutes, 0-120 minutes and backward reading scales. Bell set by lever on side and clock is wound by key. Luminous hand and figures. Smiths Industries Limited, Clock and watch division.

Smiths interval timer

Autoknips self-timer in metal case with instructions.

Autoknips II Self-timer

Clockwork self-timer; in original carton with German instructions.

Haka Autoknips Mod. 1

"Regloscope" electronic watch timer, with microphone. Made by British Watch Timers Ltd.

"Regloscope" electronic watch timer

Heinr, Klapprott, Hamburg. Clockwork timer for cable release. In aluminium case with instructions.

Haka Autoknips Self-timer Model 1

Example of first Horstmann double-train gas controller for street lights, of about 1904, giving quick action, and fitted with solar dial, with winding key and dust cover

Example of first Horstmann double-train gas controller for street lights

circa 1904

Darkroom clock calibrated 0-60 minutes with alarm. Luminous hands and five minute marks. Eastman Kodak.

Eastman timer

Example of the first "Gunfire" gas controller for street lamps, giving quick action

Example of the first "Gunfire" gas controller for street lamps

patented 1908

Digital timer, scaler, and frequency meter, serial no. AVC 470/422, by Griffin and George Ltd.

Digital timer

1970-1979

Swiss, M & V. Clockwork, for cable release. In original carton, with German instructions. Photoclip B Self Timer

Photoclip 8 Selftimer

Photoclip delayed action release model A self-timer. Clockwork delayed release for cable release attachment, approx 20 seconds.

Photoclip delayed action release model A self-timer. Clockwork delayed release for cable release attachment

1920-1930

Clockwork timer in cylindrical brass case carrying clockwork and bell, chiming at 1/2 second intervals when the button is depressed. (Winding key not original).

Clockwork timer in cylindrical brass case carrying clockwork and bell

Brass compressor for pneumatic ball with patent time valve incorporated, adjustable for 3, 2, 1, 1/2, 3/4, 3/8 secs. Thornton Pickard.

Thornton Pickard Ball Compressor and Time Valve

0-60 seconds, 0-60 minutes hands; second hand reset knob missing. Start lever. Provision for hanging or standing.

Kodak No 4 Electric Timer

Example of Gunning's first gas controller for street lamps, switching "on" and "off", patented 1899

Example of Gunning's first gas controller for street lamps

1899

Example of early Horstmann electric tumbler time-switch with solar dial, for street lights, with winding key, dust cover and screws

Example of early Horstmann electric tumbler time-switch with solar dial

Example of Gunning's pioneer gas controller for street lamps, turning 'off' only, with cover, by the British, Foreign and Colonial Automatic Light Controlling Company Limited, Bournemouth, England, c. 1897.

Gunning's pioneer gas controller for street lamps

1897

Dash pot type delayed action release, timing adjusted by screw on actuating piston. Eastman Kodak.

Kodak Self Timer

Analogue timer used with Valpar occupational aptitude tests, made by Smiths Industries, England, UK c. 1980.

Analogue timer used with Valpar occupational aptitude tests

Delay valve for pneumatic release line 0/ 1/8 / 1/4 / 1/2 /1/2/3 seconds. Thornton Pickard.

Thornton Pickard Time Valve

Clock, set by lever, caalibrated for five minutes. Bell rings at 2 1/2 minutes and 5 minutes. For wall mounting for use in processing autochrome plates. Foreign.

Ensign timing clock for autochrome plates

1903-1913

Dashpot type delayed release for attachment to cable release. Adjusting screw for speeds from half a second to one minute. Hook for attaching to camera. Eastman Kodak.

Kodak Self Timer

Clockwork timer for cable release. About 15 seconds delay.

Ensign autotimer model 0

Recording timer kit (ticker-tape timer), PSSC pattern by the Macalister Bicknell Corporation, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Recording timer kit (ticker-tape timer)

1950-1969

Production version of British cooker timer, type M883, incorporating clock dial and minute minder, c.1955, patent no.749329, produced by Midgley Harmer Limited

Production version of British cooker timer

Synchronous motor-driven solar dial time-switch, type MSDC, fitted with special fast clock revolving once per minute, to show operation of switchgear with a cast metal case

Synchronous MSDC motor-driven solar dial time-switch

Prototype version of British cooker timer incorporating clock dial and minute minder, c. 1955, produced by Midgley Harmer Limited

Prototype version of British cooker timer incorporating clock dial and minute minder

MKV11b quartz timer by Hurd-Brown Limited, Bolton c.1955

MKV11b quartz timer by Hurd-Brown Limited

circa 1955

Delayed action device with adjustable dashpot mechanism. Eastman Kodak.

Kodak Self-timer

Cooker timer, type M873, incorporated into cooker control panel, c.1955, produced by Midgley Harmer Limited

Cooker timer

Clockwork timer 15 secs delay which permits time exposure from 1 -20 seconds. With fine adjustment fast and slow. Messrs Perrot and Co. c.1925

Photoclip B Delayed Action Release Timer

1920-1930

Standard type solar dial as used for automatic switching of street-lamps at dusk and dawn with wooden stand

Standard type solar dial

Timer from a gas meter, The Gas Meter Company Ltd.

Gas company meter timer