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Components of a dry cell, cylindrical type, (mounted in the Museum on a plinth)

Components of a dry cell, cylindrical type, (mount

Electricity and Magnetism

1957
2 vials of `Crystapen' penicillin G

2 vials of `Crystapen' penicillin G

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1957
Bowl, ceramic, white, marked on base 'BR-M', by J.E. Heath, Burslem, England, 1958.

Ceramic dish, BR M

Passenger Comforts

1958
Dessert spoon, silver plate, British Transport Commission Hotels, flat ribbed handle with vignette, 'Hotels BTC'', by Elkington, 1957.

dessert spoon, British Transport Commission - Hotels

Passenger Comforts

1957
Soup spoon, silver plate, British Transport Commission Hotels, flat ribbed handle with vignette, 'Hotels BTC', by Elkington, 1957.

soup spoon, British Transport Commission - Hotels

Passenger Comforts

1957
Teaspoon, British Transport Commission Hotels, flat ribbed handle with vignette, 'Hotels BTC', silver plate, Elkington, 1959

teaspoon, British Transport Commission - Hotels

Passenger Comforts

1958
Soup spoon, silver plate, British Transport Commission Hotels, flat ribbed handle with vignette, 'Hotels BTC', by Elkington, 1957.

soup spoon, British Transport Commission - Hotels

Passenger Comforts

1957
Dessert spoon, silver plate, British Transport Commission Hotels, flat ribbed handle with vignette, 'Hotels BTC'', by Elkington, 1957.

dessert spoon, British Transport Commission - Hotels

Passenger Comforts

1957
Coffee spoon, silver plate, British Transport Commission Hotels, flat ribbed handle with vignette, 'Hotels BTC', by Elkington,1958.

coffee spoon, British Transport Commission - Hotels

Passenger Comforts

1958
Fish knife, British Transport Commission Hotels, flat ribbed handle with vignette, by Elkington, 1957.

fish knife, British Transport Commission - Hotels

Passenger Comforts

1957
Film still from the Indian film Mother India, 1957.

Film still from 'Mother India'

Cinematography

1957
Colour film still from the Indian film Mother India, 1957.

Film still from the film 'Mother India'

Cinematography

1957
David Brown '2D' agricultural tractor on pneumatic tyres, by David Brown Industries Ltd., Huddersfield, Yorkshire, Serial No. VAD 12 11133, 1958. Engine: Serial No. ADZ/12/1417, 14 hp 2-cylinder diesel. Fitted with air-operated implement lift, the tubular frame of the tractor acting as an air tank. Designed for market garden work.

David Brown '2D' agricultural tractor on pneumatic

Agricultural Engineering

1958
Poster for the Indian film Paying Guest, 1957, directed by Subodh Mukherji and starring Dev Anand and Nutan. Printed by Oriental Offset & Litho Works, Bombay.

Poster for the film 'Paying Guest'

Cinematography

1957
Photo album of images taken on the set of the film 'A King in New York' by Eric Gray, c. 1957.

Photograph Album: 'A King in New York'

Cinematography

c. 1957
Philips EM 75 electron microscope, c.1957, used at the Manchester Medical School.

Philips EM 75 electron microsc

Scientific Instruments & Research

1957
Marchal 410 * 2T flasher unit, 1957.

Marchal 410 * 2T flasher unit, 1957.

Road Transport

1957
A black and white silver gelatin photograph entitled 'Toe Strummer', taken by Jurgen Schadeberg in Johannesburg in August 1958. From Impressions Galley exhibition 'Drum' 10th December 1988 - 21st January 1989

Toe Strummer

Photographs

1958-08
A black and white silver gelatine photograph entitled 'Prohibition' taken by Victor Xashimba in March 1957. From Impressions Galley exhibition 'Drum' 10th December 1988 - 21st January 1989

Prohibition

Photographs

1957-03
Black & White silver gelatin print of pages from Drum , December 1957 , headlined 'Nude Pass Parade'. From Impressions Galley exhibition 'Drum' 10th December 1988 - 21st January 1989

Nude Pass Parade

Printed Materials & Ephemera

1957
Ilford Sporstman 35mm camera; Serial No 157285; 24x36mm; Dacora Dignar lens F:45mm f/3.5; Prontor SVS Shutter (Vario?) shutter 1/25-1/200; direct vision optical finder; accessory shoe; coaxial flash socket. Kamerwerk Reutlingen. Made in West Germany.

Ilford Sportsman camera

Photographic Technology

1957
Ronson Literkit, in plastic case. 4 flints wanting. c. 1958.

Ronson Literkit, in plastic case. 4 flints wanting

Domestic Appliances

c. 1958
Photo Finish of a race, depicting athletes crossing the finishing line and the timer stripe is visible along the bottom, taken on 19 July 1958 at the British Empire and Commonwealth Games in Cardiff with a Wilkinson MK III Race Finish Camera.

Photo Finish of a race, taken at the British Empire and Commonwealth Games

Photographic Technology

1958-07-19
Clip profile, working, end and two sides, for Nigerian Railway BS 60R flat-bottomed rail, `K' type, with notching gauge for `K', `A' and `B' type clips, Crown Agents No.F24A, with agency stamp, [by Lancashire Steel Corporation & Chas Richards, November 1948], in replacement envelope

Clip profile for Nigerian Railway

Tools of the Trade & Personal Accessories

1958
Guidebook, British Railways, "Holiday Haunts 1958 West of England, South and Central Wales", 1958, Area No. 4, fares, facilities and maps for travel, description of places of interest and accommodation adverts, cost new 1/6, 440 pages, soft cover, cover illustration of beach scene by Longman.

holiday haunts by br 1958

Library Collections

1958
Guidebook, British Railways, "Holiday Haunts by BR", 1958, fares, facilities and map for travel, description of places of interest and accommodation adverts, cost new 1/6, 248 pages, soft cover

holiday haunts by br 1958

Library Collections

1958
Shield posthumously presented to Driver John Axon for bravery by Stockport Council. Overall: 160 mm x 130 mm x 35 mm.

Shield posthumously presented to Driver John Axon

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1957
Splicing block; Junior model; with cutter-scraper; bottle of film cement; instructions; in original carton.

Kodascope Film Splicing Outfit

Cinematography

1957
Pentax K camera (black), serial number 271814, with auto takumar f1.8 55mm lens, serial number 189202.

Pentax K camera (black)

Photographic Technology

1958
Pentax S Pentar camera in ever ready case, serial number 161555, with takumar f3.5 50mm lens, serial number 90506.

Pentax S Pentar camera in ever ready case

Photographic Technology

1958
Photograph, Great Western Railway, No. 3440, 'City of Truro' hauling Swindon-Kingswear Special at Uphill Cutting and Junction,Weston-Super-Mare, 19th May 1957, by W.N. Lockett, ex Hayward Collection, in glazed frame, 270mm x 219mm.

Great Western Railway 'City of Truro'

Photographic Collections (Railway)

1957
Locomotive Nameplate, British Railways, "Sir Brian Robertson", ex Warship Class, No. D800, delivery date July 1958, (Sir Brian Robertson - Chairman of the British Transport Commission from 1953-1961).

locomotive nameplate - sir brian robertson

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1958
Prototype molecular models constructed for André Dreiding in the basement of the Institute of Organic Chemistry of the University of Zurich in 1958. They are not to scale and so differ slightly in size. Three first prototype units: 1 tetrahedral carbon, 1 carbon double bond, 1 oxygen. Two second prototype units: 1 nitrogen, 1 carbonyl.

Prototype molecular models constructed for André D

Experimental Chemistry

1958
Tube from a Resomax deep x-ray therapy unit, manufactured by Associated Electrical Industries, England, 1958

Tube from a Resomax deep x-ray therapy unit, manuf

Radiomedicine

1958
Dye book, ‘Dyestuffs for Nylon Textiles – Acid and Direct Dyestuffs', by ICI Limited, England, 1957

Dyestuffs for Nylon Textiles, ICI, 1957

Industrial Chemistry

1957
2 Ronson Mk. 4 mains dual voltage foil type electric razors, onew without case, circa, 1970.

2 Ronson Mk. 4 mains dual voltage foil type electr

Hand and Machine Tools

c. 1958
Truvox Mark VI Tape Deck and Preamplifier, 1958

Truvox Mark VI Tape Deck and Preamplifier, 1958

Sound Reproduction

1958
Bronze medal, with case, commemorating William Harvey and Harvey Tercentenary Congress, English, 1957

Bronze medal, with case, commemorating William Har

Wellcome Medals

1957
Fielden-Walker WL1A yarn eveness recorder, Fielden Electronics, c.1957

Fielden-Walker WL1A yarn tester

Textile Industry

c1957
Bottle containing Avlon crystalline penicillin G, made by ICI Ltd., Cheshire, 1963

"Avlon" crystalline penicillin

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1958
Tube with original packing carton for 'Avlon' brand penicillin eye ointment B. P. by Imperial Chemical (Pharmaceuticals) Limited, Wilmslow, Cheshire, England, 1958.

Tube of 'Avalon' brand penicillin in carton

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1958
Retina III S 35mm camera with interlinked controls - coupled coincidence rangefinder, rapid lever film transport with automatic exposure counter. Shutter is behind-the-lens Synchro Compur with speeds 1 sec to 1/500sec and B. Fitted with a Schneider Kreuznach Retina Xenon f.1.9 50mm focal length in a helical focusing mount. With direct optical viewfinder with reflected frames for alternative focal lengths with parallax correction. 1958.

Retina IIIS

Photographic Technology

1958
Brownie flash IV camera. Overall: 104 mm x 84 mm x 118 mm.

Brownie Flash IV camera.

Photographic Technology

1957
A black and white silver gelatin photograph entitled 'Watching the Dead', taken by Bob Gosani in Newcastle, South Africa in May 1958. From Impressions Galley exhibition 'Drum' 10th December 1988 - 21st January 1989

Watching the Dead

Photographs

1958
Egyptian funerary statue of man and wife, granite, Old Kingdom, from plain of Memphis

Egyptian funerary statue of man and wife, granite

Classical & Medieval Medicine

4000-1000 BCE
Aneroid barometer by Mechanism Ltd, Croydon, serial no.101/57, Type no.M1847

Aneroid barometer by Mechanism Ltd, Croydon, seria

Meteorology

1957
Coin, silver-nickel, two deutsche marks, bust of Max Planck on obverse, German mathematician, West Germany 1957

Coin, silver-nickel, two deutsche marks, bust of M

Wellcome Medals

1957
Bronze medal, cased, to commemorate the centenary of the hospital and medical school, Bucharest, and its founders, by C. Bonaschi, Romania, 1957

Bronze medal, cased, to commemorate the centenary

Wellcome Medals

1957
Silhouette, multiflash photograph of dynamite cap explosion. 0.1 m/s exposure. Taken by Harold Edgerton, 1958. Gelatin Silver print.

Silhouette photograph, dynamite cap explosion

Photographs

1958
Photograph by John Chillingworth entitled 'George Melly sings', 1958.

George Melly sings

Photographs

1958