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Flying Scotsman

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1923

Steam locomotive and tender, London & North Eastern Railway, 4-6-2 No 4472 "Flying Scotsman", Class A3 Pacific, designed by Nigel Gresley, built at Doncaster in 1923.

Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 3rd class open-topped railway carriage, 1930 (replica)

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Replica railway carriage, four wheeled, open-topped with 3 compartments, 3rd Class, Liverpool & Manchester Railway, based on design of 1834, replica built in 1930. Length over buffers: 18' 10"; width: 6' 1"

Steam locomotive 'Green Arrow'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1936

Steam locomotive and tender, London & North Eastern Railway, V2 class 2-6-2 No 4771 "Green Arrow", designed by Nigel Gresley, built at Doncaster in 1936, withdrawn in 1962.

Manufactured insulin, 'Iletin', United States, 1923

Therapeutics

1923

Ampoule of 5cc of Iletin (insulin) in carton, with instruction leaflet, manufactured by Eli Lilly & Company, Indianapolis, USA, 1923.

Gordon Dobson’s original ozone spectrograph

Meteorology

1924

Spectrograph designed by Gordon M. B. Dobson in 1924 and used by him at his home laboratory in Boars Hill, Oxfordshire for the measurement of atmospheric ozone. The instrument detected ultraviolet (UV) light reaching Earth’s surface from the Sun. Because ozone in the stratosphere absorbs UV wavelengths, UV intensity indicates ozone concentrations. The instrument used a chlorine and bromine vapour filter to absorb visible light. A Féry prism and optical wedge produced a spectrum on a photographic plate. The intensity of spectral lines at ozone-absorbing UV wavelengths was measured relative to a reference wavelength unaffected by ozone.

Kodak Kodascope Model B 16mm projector

Cinematography

1928

Kodascope Model B projector. For 16mm silent film, self threading. Fitted with an anastigmat projection lens F: 2 inches. Helical focusing in sliding mount. Single continuous sprocket, claw intermittent. Mirror and condenser lens system lights gate at right angle to lamp. 50v 250w A1 prefocus lamp. Framing control on lens mount. Rheostat controls for lamp and motor fitted ammeter 1-5A. Threading light. Power rewind. Screw elevation. Automatic threading onto take up reel through adjustable film guides. On-off and forward-reverse switches. No. K 11025. Eastman Kodak.

USAAF Aircraft camera, type K20, 1940-1945

Photographic Technology

1940-1945

USAAF Aircraft camera, type K20 Serial No. AC-45-552, designed by Fairchild and manufactured by Folmer Graflex Corporation, Rochester, New York, United States, 1940-1945. With fitted case and instruction manual. Also known as the Fairchild K20

Mineral wagon used at Stanton Ironworks

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1931

Railway wagon, 12T Private Owner mineral wagon, Stanton Iron Works, 1931.

Fumigation box

Public Health & Hygiene

1925-1935

Body of fumigation box van used to transport domestic material for fumigation during slum clearances, c. 1925-1935

C.W. transmitter/receiver, Mk.1, 1917

Radio Communication

1917

C.W. (continuous wave) transmitter/receiver, Mk.I**, also known as Trench set C.W. Mk.I, made by W/T Factory, W.D. Soho W. (Wireless Telegraphy Factory, War Department), England, 1917

Glass bottle of penicillin powder

Biotechnology

1943

Penicillin, by Kemball, Bishop & Co., in a glass container with cork stopper, 1943. Label attached.

'Tabloid' medicine chest, used for 1938 Mt. Everest expedition

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1937-1938

Metal 'Tabloid" medicine chest with lock, style 260, supplied to 1938 Everest Expedition, prepared by Burroughs Wellcome and Co. (The Wellcome Foundation Ltd.), London 1937-1938

'Electric tonic' amusement machine, Europe, 1915-1925

Therapeutics

1915-1925

Electric tonic amusement machine c.1920

Heurtley magnifier, 1919

Telecommunications

1919

Heurtley magnifier, made by Muirhead and Company Limited, Beckenham, London, England, 1919. Ex Submarine Cable Exhibition, 1950.

Penicillin powder in bottle

Biotechnology

1942

Penicillin powder in screw top bottle with label, unsigned, Oxford, England, 1942

McKay artificial left arm

Orthopaedics

1920

A McKay all-metal arm for a left above elbow amputation, designed for heavy work. Duralumin socket and forearm, connected by jointed side steels. The elbow joint operates around a metal arc with holes for six locking positions. The lock may be released and kept free by means of a crude gate-hinged device which fits onto a projecting pin on the side steel. The wrist rotary has a snap fitting mechanism, for easy removal of the hand, or any other terminal device. The eyelet holes, in the front of the socket and forearm, are for elastic laces which act as an elbow 'pick-up' and as a clothing protector. This prosthesis is fitted with an all-rubber hand and heavy-duty harness appendages. Made by McKay on 28 April 1920. N.B. The name on the arm label refers to James Morrison who had a financial interest in the McKay business. (Weight: 2.25 lbs 1.25 kg)

No 37 Samsonia Model J Perfect Engineer's Vice, ca

Hand and Machine Tools

1929

No 37 Samsonia Model J Perfect Engineer's Vice, cast steel with quick release lever and replaceable steel serated jaws.

Model of "Silver Link" steam locomotive

Railway Models

1935

Model steam locomotive, scale 1/12, London & North Eastern Railway A4 class 4-6-2 No.2509 "Silver Link", prototype built 1935.

The Terminus (Penzance Station)

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1925

Painting, oil on canvas, The Terminus (Penzance Station) by Stanhope Alexander Forbes, 1925. Painting shows a busy station platform from a high view point. This includes carriages, passengers and posters. The sea wall, houses and fields can be seen beyond the platform. Framed and glazed.

Wurlitzer Simplex multi-selector juke box model 41

Sound Reproduction

1936

Wurlitzer Simplex multi-selector juke box model 412, 1936.

Amplion loud speaker with wooden horn, 1925

Radio Communication

1925

Amplion loud speaker with wooden horn, made by Graham Amplion Limited, Slough, England, 1925

AC electric meter, made by Ferranti Ltd

Electricity Supply

c.1930

AC electric meter, made by Ferranti Ltd in Hollinwood, near Manchester, c.1930.

Axial-flow compressor

Aircraft Propulsion

1939

Axial-flow compressor from B10 'Betty' self-sustaining gas turbine test rig, developed and manufactured by Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Co. Ltd, Trafford Park, Manchester, 1937-40.

Ford model T Tourer car, Reg. No. PP7963, Engine No. 1,122,607

Road Transport

1916

Ford model T Tourer car, Reg. No. PP7963, Engine No. 1,122,607, by Ford Motor Company, Detroit, Wayne county, Michigan, United States, 1916

United States Army Air Force camera

Photographic Technology

1940-1945

USAAF Aircraft camera, type K20 Serial No. AC-45-552, designed by Fairchild and manufactured by Folmer Graflex Corporation, Rochester, New York, United States, 1940-1945

Rubin’s apparatus for uterotubal insufflation, New York, United States, 1928

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1928

Utero-tubal insufflation apparatus, in case, metal, with instructions, advertisement and tin for typewriter ribbon, invented by Rubin, made by Becker, from Italian Hospital in London, American make, 1928

Northrop loom

Textile Industry

1947

Towelling loom, made by the British Northrop Loom Co. Ltd, Blackburn, 1947.

novelty crystal radio set, 1925-1930

Radio Communication

1925-1930

Crystal set in the form of a book, made by Kenmac Radio Limited, Hammersmith, London, England, 1925-1930

Mink G fruit van

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1931

Fruit Van, Great Western Railway, goods van, "Mink G" No 112884, 1931, (later numbered 042431).

Radio Times volume 1 No. 1, 1923

Radio Communication

1923

Radio Times volume 1 No. 1, produced by the British Broadcasting Company and published by George Newnes Limited, England, 1923

Rolls-Royce Merlin Mk 22 Engine

Aircraft Propulsion

1946

Rolls-Royce Merlin Mk 22 or Mk 24 aircraft engine, assembled by Ford apprentices at Dagenham from parts made by the Ford Motor Co., Trafford Park, 1946.

'Bradshaw' motorcycle by DOT Motors Ltd, Manchester, 1923

Road Transport

1923

Bradshaw motorcycle made by DOT Motors Ltd, Manchester, 1923

'Cat's whisker' Crystal Radio

Radio Communication

1920-1925

'Cat's whisker' crystal radio set with single headphone and original crystal, made by the Scientific Wireless Company, Manchester, and purchased in 1924-25.

Obsidian possibly used in trephination experiments

Surgery

1918-1920

One piece of obsidian, possibly used as trephining instrument by Dr. T. Wilson Parry, in experiments on neolithic trephination, England, 1918-1920

Red Cross fund-raising brooch made from Zeppelin wire, 1917.

Therapeutics

1916-1917

Brooch made of wire from the first Zeppelin brought-down in England, mounted on card by the British Red Cross, presumably for fund-rising purposes, c.1917

Savoy Hill 'Meat Safe' Microphone Stand

Television

1923

Savoy Hill "Meat Safe" microphone stand for the Marconi-Sykes Magnetophone type microphone, made by Marconi's Wireless Telegraphy Company Limited, probably Chelmsford, Essex, England, 1923

Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934

Telecommunications

1934

Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, probably made by the Deutsche Museum, Munich, Germany, 1934. Copy of an original on display in the Deutsche museum, dating from 1846

Lapel badges, France, 1915-1917

Wellcome Medals

1915-1917

One of seven lapel badges, circular, embossed gilt metal, fund raiser on Day of the Wounded and Tuberculosed Soldiers of the War, by Lalique, French, 1915-1917

Crystal set with Braille dial markings, 1929-1935

Radio Communication

1929-1935

Crystal set with Braille dial marking, supplied by the British Wireless for the Blind Fund and made by Burne-Jones and Company, London, England, 1929-1935.

Ivory model of back-to-back skull and head

Anatomy & Pathology

Before 1932

Ivory model of a human skull and head, back to back, covered with worms and toads, possibly French

Volume 1 No. 1 of "Television" monthly magazine, 1928

Radio Communication

1928

Volume 1 number 1 of "Television" monthly magazine, "The Official Organ of the Television Society", published by Television Press Limited, British, March 1928.

Thomas Lewis’ electrocardiograph

Clinical Diagnosis

1930

Electrocardiograph, used by Sir Thomas Lewis at University College Hospital, London, by the Cambridge Instrument Co., Cambridge, England, 1930

Sargrove sprayed circuit radio receiver production prototype, 1936-1948

Electronic Components

1936-1948

Sargrove sprayed circuit radio receiver (production prototype), made by John Sargrove, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England, 1936-1948.

Ekco model radio in phenolic plastic case.

Radio Communication

1935

Model AD36 Ekco radio receiver, 4-valve TRF domestic receiver in circular Bakelite phenolic plastic case, by E K Cole Limited, Southend-on-Sea; England, 1935

No. I.T. Morse tape printer, 1925

Telecommunications

1925

No. I.T. Morse tape printer, manufactured by Creed and Company Limited, Croydon, London, England, 1925

Bottle of medicinal water from La Rampe

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1920-1928

Bottle of medicinal water from the hot spring of La Rampe, Bagneres de Bigorre, France, 1928

Pair of climbers for climbing telegraph poles

Signalling & Telecommunications

1948

Pair climbers for climbing telegraph poles; made at Doncaster Works for J.H. Borrett from "Flying Scotsman" tyre steel in 1948; steel bar with silver steel points, leather straps and pads.

Ship's bell, Southern Railway

Railway Shipping

1930

Ship's bell, brass, Southern Railway, inscribed "Whippingham", from the Paddle Steamship Whippingham, allocated to the Portsmouth-Ryde service, built by Fairfield Shipping & Engineering Co Ltd, Govan, 1930, withdrawn 1962 and broken up 1963.

Pohl Omniskop X-ray apparatus, Kiel, Germany, 1925-1935

Radiomedicine

1925-1935

Main component of Pohl Omniskop X-ray apparatus, c.1925-1935 , used by Dr. Rachwalsky until 1962, German

Marconi - B.B.C. ribbon type B microphone with stirrup

Radio Communication

c. 1937

Marconi - B.B.C. ribbon type B microphone with stirrup 78784/8559A