Magazine box camera for notched cut films 2 1/2 x 3 /12 inches. Fitted with a beck Steinheil Orthostigmat lens No. 10395 US 8-255, four apertures in rotating plate. Rotary shutter 5/10/20/40/ aperture and shutter setting visible through lens. Shutter set through panel in base. With two reflecting finders, spirit level in film change handle with two Taylor Taylor Hobson double levels added. Covered in stitched calf leather with gilt fittings. R & J Beck. De Luxe frena camera Photographic Technology c. 1892
Portion of Fuselage containing control mechanism; of Bleriot Monoplane Control mechanism of Bleriot's monoplane Aeronautics c. 1909
Bradford washing machine (Vowel Y) by T.Bradford & Co., Manchester,1897 The 'Vowel Y' washing machine and wringer, 1897. Domestic Appliances 1897
LSWR dining car no.72 was built in 1907 renumbered 4134 in 1912. It was in use as a Diner until 1923 when ‘Ironclad’ Dining Cars came into service. It was then relegated to secondary service and gained the Southern Railway number of 7834 remaining in service to 1930. In 1931 it was rebuilt, losing its clerestory roof and became a ‘Nondescript’ saloon. In 1943 it was sold to the USATC and rebuilt as an Ambulance Car and given the number 201. At the end of the Second World War this saloon along with USATC 202 and 204-7 went to the Longmoor Military Railway and from there to the Bicester Military Railway where it acquired the Army number 3018. Here it was converted to an Inspection Saloon, losing its gangway along with rebuilding inside and gaining end windows 16th May 1978 it was used to convey HM. the Queen around the Bicester site Inspection Saloon ex. Bicester Military Railway Locomotives and Rolling Stock 1907
Weighing machine for infants including scales, cradle, and weights Nursing & Hospital Furnishings 1890-1910
Edison Kinetophone (or Phonokinetoscope); Kinetoscope with cylinder phonograph, an early attempt at creating a sound-film system; early motion picture exhibition device, designed for films to be viewed individually through an aperture on the top of the cabinet. Edison Kinetophone (or Phonokinetoscope) Cinematography 1894
Projection lens for Lumiere Cinematographe no. 271, 1896. Projection lens for Lumiere Cinematographe Cinematography 1896
Medicine chest used on British Antarctic Expedition of 1910-1913, England, 1900-1910 Materia Medica & Pharmacology 1900-1910