Image
Category
Maker
On Display
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Diorama Showing a View at Marble Arch at night, with 1935 Lighting

1930

Transparency, 12"x10", of fish tail gas burner

Adana 'Eight Five' printing machine

Mechanical-advantage demonstration with pulley block and weight.

1932

Mechanical-advantage demonstration with pulley block and weight.

1932

Model of a Lever Escapement on a mahogany stand

Components for model Waygood-Otis Passenger Electric Lift. Including grey Lift COP (Car Operating Panel)

Model of a Canoe hollowed from a tree trunk

Two tuning forks

One model of a Norse Whale-boat

Model of Post Windmill.

1928-1930

Diorama illustrating Transport in 1850-1900

Diorama illustrating Transport in the Modern Age

Transparency, 12"x10", of upright incandescent gas burner

Mechanical-advantage demonstration with windlass, pulley block and weight

1932

Glass faced skeleton clock.

1937-1938

Electronic Reation Timer.

Diorama illustrating an Early Electrically Lit Street

Diorama, "Street Lighting in the 1960s"

1969

Diorama illustrating Graco-Roman Chariot or wagon

Diorama - A Kitchen of about 1830

Model of steam engine, sectioned

Wooden model of Tallow Dip and iron holder, with illuminated wick

Moonstone Electric Shade, with gallery (for electric filament lamp)

One model of Wheatstone's 5-needle telegraph

Model of a Man riding on a log

Model of a Dug-out Canoe with it sides and ends built up

Working model of an electric passenger lift.

1924

One exhibit showing the automatic opening of a door, controlled by a photoelectric cell.

One exhibit showing the automatic opening of a door

1931-1933

Model illustrating use of Arc Lighting:- "Dockside Warehouse"

Model illustrating use of Arc Lighting

Diorama illustrating Flint Mining in Neolithic times

Diorama illustrating flint mining

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

"Regloscope" electronic watch timer

Vertical Wind Tunnel used by the late Sir Thomas Stanton in experiments to determine wind pressures on plane surfaces, 1904. In two sections each about 5'9" high by base 6'6" x 5', with balance for measuring pressures

Vertical Wind Tunnel used by the late Sir Thomas Stanton

1904

Aeolian Organ, and 57 music rolls, from Abergeldy Castle, Balmoral, c.1880.

Aeolian Organ

Full sized glass replica of an ancient Egyptian Water Clock. (With metal tank, purchased from Burt, Potts & Co, which was originally part of 1932-303).

Full sized glass replica of an ancient Egyptian Water Clock

Piano Action, for grand piano, 1967

Piano Action, for grand piano, 1967

1967

Plaster model of a shire horse and harness (for model of a Sussex Wagon, 1931-526)

Plaster model of a shire horse and harness

"Experiments in a Vacuum" exhibit, with pump. (Pump purchased for #146.3.6 from the firm)

"Experiments in a Vacuum" exhibit

Skeleton pendulum clock

Skeleton pendulum clock

Magnetic Tape Recorder and Replay Machine

Magnetic Tape Recorder and Replay Machine

Small 26-second sand-glass

Small 26-second sand-glass

Model illustrating eclipse of the sun

Model illustrating eclipse of the sun

Large 2-hour sand-glass by Henry Hughes & Son Ltd., Hainault, England, 1931

Large 2-hour sand-glass by Henry Hughes & Son Ltd.

1931

D.W.S. Permanent Jack without handle. With 28 lb square weight

D.W.S. permanent jack

Liverpool jug thrown as it comes from the wheel

Liverpool jug thrown as it comes from the wheel

Astronomical Clock, in the style of those of the 16th century makers but electrically driven, showing equation of time, phases of the moon etc. Made by Professor F. Martin Haines, 1930-31

Astronomical Clock

1930-1931

Painting, 15ft long and 5ft high, in distemper, on board, representing a "Dockyard Scene, with Liner & Cranes"

Painting, 15ft long and 5ft high

Vase (white - unglazed)

Vase (white - unglazed)

Magnetic speedometer by Smiths, 1958, with flexible drive and separate magnet unit

Magnetic speedometer by Smiths

1958

Toy gramophone (Pygmyphone)

Toy gramophone (Pygmyphone)