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Dentist's models of child's skull needing bone grafts

Dentistry

1954

Baird Townsman television receiver

Television

c. 1949

Noel Coward lights Marlene Dietrich's cigarette

Photographs

1954-06-16

Alba TRG097AC Combined Radiogram Television Receiver

Television

1951

A boy and his dog bask in sun and glory

Photographs

1955-08

Liverpool skyline, with the Anglican Cathedral in the distance

Photographs

1950-02-21

Artificial leg, Roehampton, England, 1961

Orthopaedics

1961

AVRO Shackleton Centre of Gravity Computer

Aeronautics

1950

Vitamin B12 crystal structure model, 1957-1959.

Experimental Chemistry

1957-1959

Woman next to a car

Photographs

c. 1960

Diana Dors

Photographs

1958-07-07

Avis Scott poses in front of a 3-D television camera

Photographs

1954-08-24

'Electric Build-it Set' educational toy

Science Teaching

1956-1960

Wing model used during the investigation of the Concorde wing shape

Farnborough

about 1960

Wing model used during the investigation of the Concorde wing shape

Farnborough

about 1960

Molecular model of the structure of vitamin B12, 1957-1959.

Experimental Chemistry

1957-1959

World champion Joe Davis tries 'Apollo', his new metal snooker cue

Photographs

1954-11-18

Rescuing the ball after Shrove Tuesday football in Alnwick

Photographs

1953-02-17

Woman and child prepare tea

Photographs

c. 1955

HMV model 1892 television receiver

Television

c. 1959

Trans-Pennine train leaves Manchester station

Photographs

1960-12-29

Dancing girls relaxing on the roof of London Palladium

Photographs

1960-05-25

First sample of 100% spun 'terylene' yarn

Plastics and Modern Materials

1949

Expandascope projection lens no 5716

Cinematography

1950s

Electrophoresis machine, London, England, 1955-1960

Laboratory Medicine

1955-1960

Katharometer, designed by W.Stuve, c. 1957

Experimental Chemistry

1957

Tomograph, United Kingdom, 1950-1959

Radiomedicine

1952-1959

Replica Sputnik 1, the world's first artificial satellite, 1957

Sputnik 1 satellite, 1957.

Space Technology

1957

Coronet Rapier camera

Photographic Technology

c. 1958

St. Mary's Lighthouse, Whitley Bay

Photographs

1949-11-03

Scene after a stampede for tickets to see Manchester United

Photographs

1950-02-03

Four of the seven coal miners rescued from Hickleton Main Colliery, Doncaster

Photographs

1960-10-12

Watson Model 75 Television Zoom Lens

Television

1949-52

Expandascope projection lens no. 5715

Cinematography

1950s

Kitten splashing in a saucer of milk

Photographs

1958-07-03

Haemoglobin 8.26, Festival Pattern Group brown/red fabric, 1950-1951

Experimental Chemistry

1950-1951

Haemoglobin 8.26, Festival Pattern Group blue fabric, 1950-1951

Experimental Chemistry

1950-1951

Debrie H 35mm high speed cine camera

Cinematography

1950

Three lens reflex camera for 120 rollfilm 2 x 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches. With two coated anastigmat lenses I-22. F: 7.5cm f/4.5-22. No,008966. Twin shutters 15/30/60/125/B. Both lenses gear coupled to reflex viewfinder lens, brilliant focusing screen, centred ground disc. Hood with magnifier and sports frame finder. Made of moulded plastic. Made in Russia. Two lens caps, one missing.

Sputnik stereo camera

Photographic Technology

1960

Ceramic Ernie money box

Computing & Data Processing

1957

Sievert blow lamp, 1/2 pint, 0.33 litres paraffin tank, type 538. Made by Max Sievert, Stockholm, Sweden. c. 1950

Sievert blow lamp, 1/2 pint, 0.33 litres paraffin

Domestic Appliances

c. 1950

Tellohm resistivity meter by Nash and Thompson Ltd

Geophysics

1960

Back to the Sun at Clacton-on-Sea and Holland-on-Sea

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1955

Allbrit [fixed bar] compensating polar planimeter

Mathematics

1955-1960

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

"Eddystone" 680/2A communications receiver; Stratt

Radio Communication

1955

Electric dishwasher

Domestic Appliances

1952

Festival Pattern Group Fabric, 1951

Experimental Chemistry

1951

Avro Vulcan B C.G. Computer Mk 2

Aeronautics

1956-1960

Oldham Type C electric hand la

Coal Mining

c. 1950