Computing & Data Processing
1976-1979
Personal Computer, model Apple I, devised by Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs and Ron Wayne, and made by Apple Inc, United States, 1976-1979.
Locomotives and Rolling Stock
1976
Power car, Shinkansen Leading Car 22-141, 'bullet train', built by West Japan Railways, 1976, withdrawn from service in October 2000. Length 82'; width 11' 8"; height 14' 6 1/2".
Television
c. 1980
C7 Betamax made by Sony from 1980.The Sony C7 was introduced in early 1980 and offered features that had never been seen before on home video recorders such as picture search, slow motion, and an end-of-tape alarm. Serial No. 33355578; Model No. SL-C7UB
c.1980
Tube Cube television, made by Pye Ltd, Cambridge, c.1980.
Radiomedicine
1980
One of five 'Jedi helmets,' silver inner helmet, used with Cryogenic Magnetic Resonance Imaging Machine and associated computing equipment by Data General, United States,1980.
Smoking
1975-1980
Red & White Kings cigarettes, cellophane wrapped, Godfrey Phillips India Ltd. One of a selection of drugs and related material from India, 1975-1980.
Domestic Appliances
1978
Kenwood Sodastream model by Sodastream Ltd. of Peterborough with three bottles, 1978
1979
Mattel Intellivision games console with mains adaptor and six game cartridges (Armor Battle, Auto Racing, Golf, NASL Soccer, Sea Battle) each with instruction booklets, 1979. Console Serial No 100519.
Public Health & Hygiene
1975-1978
Six bifurcated needles for smallpox vaccination, developed by Wyeth Laboratories, German(? ), 1975-1978
Road Transport
Raleigh 'Chopper' Mk2 bicycle. The Chopper is one of the most iconic children’s bicycles and was first produced in 1968. Its design resembled an American Harley Davidson motorcycle and was unlike anything on the market, its success also helped by the film ‘Easy Rider’ released in 1969. This is a Mark 2 Raleigh Chopper, first produced in 1971 in response to safety concerns, and differing most notably with un-adjustable handle-bars and a shorter seat with a warning that only one person should sit on it at a time. The Chopper Mark 2 continued to be produced until 1984. However this wasn’t the end of the Chopper, and it once again returned to shops in 2004 with the Mark 3.
Therapeutics
Diorama of a First World War dressing station
Materia Medica & Pharmacology
Larzine, Unani medicine for malaria, one of a selection of drugs and related material from India, 1975-1980.
Telecommunications
1977
Jubilee telephone, made by the Post Office, Cwmbran, Wales, 1977. Balmoral blue telephone with separate bell housing. S/A 4271 FWB 77/1.
Cinematography
System 2000 video recorder made by Grundig, Federal Republic of Germany, c.1980
Art
Joy Division ‘Unknown Pleasures’ LP. 1979. Cover features drawing of 100 consecutive pulses from the first pulsar discovered, CP1919 (now known as PSR1919+21).
System X circuit board from digital switching subsystem, probably made by Plessey Company Limited, Liverpool, England, 1980.
Microbiology
1974-1976
Model of adenovirus, made by Mrs. C.V. Waugh, 1974-1976
Radio Communication
Ferguson television receiver, 20", black-and-white, 625-line, hybrid valve/transistor, Model 3821, manufactured 1979
Audiology
1978-1980
Hearing aid, behind ear, with ear mould and battery, type BE14, c. 1980
Steam locomotive and tender, Liverpool & Manchester Railway, replica, "Rocket" 0-2-2, designed by Robert Stephenson, built 1979 to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Rainhill Trials.
NorthStar Horizon computer, made by North Star Computers, Berkeley, California, United States, 1979.
M.R.C. straight sided blood transfusion bottle, capped, with rubber tubing and drop indicator, from the National Blood Transfusion Service, 1978
Scientific Instruments & Research
1974
70-70F mass spectrometer, made by VG Micromass, Winsford, 1974 and used at the University of Oxford for research into the metabolites of cannabis, with associated manuals & research papers.
Ericofon Model 600 Type SR1007B telephone, made by Telefonaktiebolaget L. M. Ericsson, Sweden, c.1980.
Textile Industry
Sample of Monastral fast blue BS dye, made by ICI, Manchester, c.1980.
Magnavox Odyssey 2 games console in original packaging, 1978. Second-generation video game console released by Magnavox (a subsidiary of Philips from 1974) using programmable ROM cartridges. Included a full alpha numeric keyboard as well as joystick console. Also known as the Philips Videopac G7000, the Odyssey 2 was a direct rival to the Atari 2600 and Mattel Intellivision in the early second generation of games consoles.
1973
Kodak Ektasound 130 Super 8 cine camera. For Super 8 film in sound cartridges. Kodak Ektar lens F;9mm f/1.2. Automatic exposure; DV optical finder. Magnetic sound recording facility on striped film. No 015347. In original carton with Kodak directional microphone and wriststrap (carton not seen 2011). bought in a camera shop in 1976 for £64.07. The Kodak Ektasound 130 was the first camera designed to record sound simultaneously with picture onto magnetically-striped Super 8 Ektachrome film.
External cardiac pacemaker, external pulse generator type E4162, made by Implants Division of Devices Ltd., British, 1978
Aeronautics
Volmer VJ 23E powered hang-glider, designed by Volmer Jensen and Irving Culver. This was built by David Cook in 1973, and used by him to become the first man to fly a powered hang glider across the English Channel.
Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception
1975
Tube of "Ortho-gynol" contraceptive jelly, made by Ortho Pharmaceutical Ltd., English, 1975
Vial containing dried smallpox vaccine. Label reads: 'Single dose / Not to be injected, Dried Smallpox Vaccine...' Part of a packet of dried smallpox vaccine B.P. (Ovine), by Swiss Serum and Vaccine Institute for Department of Health and Social Security, (DHSS), 1980
'Prepurex' pregnancy test kit (multiple tests) with immunological reagents, pippettes, sampling tubes, mixing plate and instructions, by Wellcome Reagents, Beckenham, England, c.1980
Selector box made by Dextralog, around 1975, attached to textile looms by sensor leads.
Water Transport
Rigged model of H.M. Bark 'Endeavour', 1974. Originally merchant collier ‘Earl of Pembroke’, the ship was purchased by the Royal Navy in 1768, to be refitted and renamed for the voyage of Lieutenant (later Captain) James Cook for his voyage to Tahiti to observe the transit of Venus.
"Post Office Telecommunications" teleconference unit, designed at the Post Office Research Station in Martlesham, made by DCA Design Consultants, Warwick, England, 1977. Constructed for the Post Office Silver Jubilee Exhibition in Hyde Park, London in 1977
Electronic circuit board from a selector box, made by Dextralog, c.1974. One of the earliest circuit boards produced by Dextralog.
1974-1977
Closed Intel 8080 microprocessor chip, made by the Intel Corporation, United States, 1974-1977
Croma telephone handset with dial, mustard, made by Indetel, Mexico, 1976
Industrial Chemistry
Model, scale 1:80, of an ammonia synthesis plant (known as Ammonia Four) at ICI Agricultural Division, Billingham works, which came on stream in January 1977, by Cleveland Process Designs, Stockton on Tees, England, 1976. The full plant including cooling tower is shown, and pipe-work with a diameter of 6 inches and above is detailed. Samples of catalysts and flow animated diagram attached.
Dunlop Denovo Mini run-flat safety tyre and wheel, c. 1974, sectioned
Instruction leaflet for dried smallpox vaccine B.P. (Ovine), single dose of Lancy-Vaxina for use with scratch technique, by Swiss Serum and Vaccine Institute for Department of Health and Social Security, (DHSS), 1980
Silicon ingot, unknown maker, 1978-1980
Special interface unit for blind telephone switchboard operators, made by the RNIB, NRDC and Imperial College, London, England, 1977.
1978-1979
A Mini Clubman car adapted for use by driver, Mr Edward Freeman, disabled by the drug thalidomide. In order to give more headroom the floor was lowered, and the controls have been adapted, England, c.1978-1979.
One of two packets of dried smallpox vaccine, each containing one ampoule of 25 doses, by the Lister Institute, Elstree, England, 1979
Standard PABX7 switchboard, used with specially designed interface for blind operators, made by Post Office Telecommunications, British, 1977
Wall mounting for Jubilee telephone, made by the Post Office, Cwmbran, Wales, 1977
Coil of 7 mm fibre optic cable, wound on to a cable drum, as used on the Hitchin-Stevenage fibre optic telephone link, made by Standard Telephones and Cables Limited, Harlow, Essex, England, 1977
Heat
Greenhouse thermometer by Dudley Adams of Fleet Street. Mercury in glass on wooden board, 10 deg F to 120 deg F, c. 1798
Touring bicycle made by Johnny Berry, Manchester, 1973. Serial number 731897.
