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Pilot's appliance for holding the joy-stick, England, 1942-1943

Orthopaedics

1942-1943

Leaflet relating to smog, London, England, c. 1950-1955

Public Health & Hygiene

1950-1955

Largs

Railway Posters, Notices & Handbills

1950

Wind tunnel model of the Spitfire Mk. I, by RAE [Royal Aircraft Establishment], Farnborough, Hampshire, England, 1941

Wind Tunnel Model of Spitfire Mark I

Farnborough

1941

St. Mary's Lighthouse, Whitley Bay

Photographs

1949-11-03

Whitsun traffic on the Rochester Way

Photographs

1950-05-28

Children drawing on the pavement

Photographs

1941-11-14

Badge for a State Certified Midwife, Birmingham, England, 1947

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

1947

Whole model, scale 1:27, of Robert Fulton's first experimental steamboat

Marine Engines

1949

Valve in holder, from Colossus project, designed by Tommy Flowers, made at the Post Office Research Station and used at the Government Code and Ciphers School at Bletchley Park, 1940-1945

valve from Colossus project, 1940-1945

Computing & Data Processing

1940-1945

Poster to recruit blood donors during the Second World War

Public Health & Hygiene

1943

First War Baby gets his Gas Mask

Photographs

1939-09-13

Baird tape recorder Mark II

Sound Reproduction

1952

7x50 binocular with internal filters model CF41 se

Optics

1940

Universal Avo Minor AC/DC multimeter by the Automa

Electricity and Magnetism

1940-1949

'Selfac' Automatic Fire Extinguisher by F.E. Proprietary Co. Ltd., England, 1940

Firefighting

1940

Packaging for two 'Durex' condoms

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1940-1955

Neville Duke "Test Pilot" card game. Duke was a jet plane test pilot; the pack contains all the emblematic aircraft of the period (Avro Vulcan, De Havilland Comet, Fairey Delta 2, Bristol Britannia, English Electric P.1, Gloster Javeline, Fairey Rotodyne), artist A W Bowbeer

Neville Duke 'Test Pilot' card game

Aeronautics

1955

Plastic body box camera for stereo, 127 rollfilm 2 x 2 x 1 5/8 inches. Fitted with two meniscus lenses of fixed aperture. Lever cocked instantaneous double shutter. Covering blade on No 1 lens permits single exposures. 'binocular Viewfinder', double binocular direct vision optical finders. Double socket flash contact. Instructions on back plate. Serial No D87476.

Coronet 3D camera

Photographic Technology

1953

Mather and Platt fire pump system sprinkler head

Pumping Machinery

c.1938

GPO 50v gas detector No 4 in l

Telecommunications

1954

Wagon, 23-ton bogie hopper wagon, No 19154, built by Charles Roberts & Co, Wakefield, 1953, refurbished and vacuum braked by ICI at Northwich, 1983, used to carry limestone, to and from Tunstead, Derbyshire.

Bogie hopper wagon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1953

H.G. Wells in his Regent's Park home

Photographs

20 January 1940

Ferranti Radio Receiver

Radio Communication

1951

Philips PF1B Flash Bulbs

Photographic Technology

19150-1955

Small Electrolux ammonia absorption domestic refrigerator

Domestic Appliances

1945-1955

Alexander Performance Test, a performance test for

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1946

Capsule Thermostat (Temperature Controller), 1945-1950

Heat

1945-1950

Ferranti Electric Mantel Clock

Time Measurement

1939

RAF Officers' great coat, with

Aeronautics

c.1940

Astrocompass Mark 2 Manual

Aeronautics

1939-1945

Aircraft bomb-aiming mechanical computer

Computing & Data Processing

1940-1945

Thompson British Auto-Platen Printing Press, 1948

Printing & Writing

1948

Ensign Selfix 12-20 Camera

Photographic Technology

1950-1955

Engine assembly from V2 rocket

Space Technology

1944

Emergency Flying Ration Pack

Aeronautics

1939-1945

World War Two Gas Mask

Public Health & Hygiene

1940

The Flying Scotsman menu [supplied title]

Documents

c. 1955

bournemouth

Railway Posters, Notices & Handbills

1953

Bangor - Northern Ireland

Railway Posters, Notices & Handbills

1955

Supersonic

Roy Nockolds

1948-1952

Noel Coward lights Marlene Dietrich's cigarette

Photographs

1954-06-16

Mill worker

Photographs

1940-01-21

Designer with clothing dolls

Photographs

1945-09-11

Cardboard carton, for Penicillin sodium salt vial and instruction leaflet

Biotechnology

1944

Three train, flatbed turret clock by E. Dent with double three-legged gravity escapement, c. 1939.

Time Measurement

1939

Pye B16T television receiver

Television

1946

Bottle of 'Walpole' Nerve and Brain Tonic, Southampton, England, 1940-1955

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1940-1955

0.4" Matrix Drilling Machine

Printing & Writing

1955

Women's League of Health and Beauty

Photographs

1939-06-27