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Pye B16T television receiver

1946-1948

Cabinet for Kit television receiver

1952

Framed private members bill from the Alan Turing pardon campaign

2013

Alba TRG097AC Combined Radiogram Television Receiver

1951

Murphy model A104 radio receiver

1944-1948

Model 20T6 television made by Ferranti Ltd

circa 1956

Optical balance level

1700-1799

Removable mahogany side panel

1700-1799

HMV model 1892 television receiver

circa 1959

Baird Townsman television receiver

circa 1949

Marconiphone 706 television receiver

1938

Ekco TA201 television receiver

1939

Pye B18C Television Receiver

1949-1950

Trinitron KV-1330UB Colour Television Receiver

1968-1970

Optical balance level, after a type used in the 17th Century, British, 1700-1799

Optical balance level

1700-1799

Commemoration plaque, 'Presented to Rocket in appreciation for attendance at Steamexpo May 23 - June 1, 1986, Vancouver, B.C. Canada.' Overall: 35 mm x 306 mm x 227 mm.

Plaque presented to replica Rocket at Steamexpo 1986

1986

Ferranti radiogram.

Ferranti radiogram.

Pye V4 black and white television receiver, made by Pye Ltd of Cambridge about 1953.

Pye V4 Television Receiver

1952-1953

Floor standing cabinet stereoscope viewer with rack focused eyepiece, made by unknown manufacturer about 1910. Internal fabric belt with wire frames or stereographs.

Floor Standing Cabinet Stereoscope Viewer

1890-1930

Stereo-graphoscope with large magnifying lens. Floor standing, on casters, ebonised wood with chased and inlaid decoration, ornamental handles. Unknown manufacturer, about 1900.

Stereo-Graphoscope

1880-1910

Zogroscope. Pedestal viewer for small pictures, c. 1820. 14 x 20 cm mirror in pivoted frame with 10cm viewing bi-convex lens with telescopic column giving height varying from 34 to 50cm. With a wooden screw fitting. Fluted decoration on lower column and small amount of inlay. Lead weighted base.

Zograscope

1815-1825

Cabinet approx 253x510x280mm; walnut veneer with inlaid corners; rack focused eyepieces (hoods chipped); Fluted glass knobs for turning belt of stereograph holders (tape broken); Hinged lids, one with mirror; ground glass (cracked).

Cabinet stereoscope

Alldays and Onions box-type delivery tricycle, c. 1938, used by Scott's bakery of Portsmouth. Frame made to patent No. 3454 of 1909.

Delivery tricycle

1909-1938

Floor standing cabinet for storing taxiphote stereo transparency slides, unknown manufacturer about 1920.

Floor Standing Cabinet for StoringTaxiphote Slides

1915-1925

Cabinet stereoscope viewer, manufactured by unknown maker about 1910. Body walnut veneered with brass handles. Stereographs carried in wooden frame on endless canvass belts. Rack focusing eyepieces, with interocular separation (hinge detaching). Double lid with mirrors, hinged rear panel with mirrors for transparencies. Small lockable door on side for access to stereographs.

Cabinet Stereoscope

1890-1920

'Colortel' mechanical colour adaptor, to fit onto the front of the monochrome television set to convert NTSC-compatible monchrome set to colour using a field sequential disc. Made by Color Converter Inc, Indiana, United States, c. 1955. Part of the Donald Fleming Collection of North American television receivers. Accompanying converter chassis is missing. An associated 14 inch RCA Radiotron cathode ray tube is believed to have been included to swap out with the standard and brighter 24 inch tube in the monochrome television to prevent screen burn when using the ‘Colortel,’ which focussed the bright and colourful images on a small section of the screen.

Col-R-Tel mechanical colour convertor and RCA Cathode Ray Tube

circa 1955

HMV 900 monochrome television receiver, dual standard 205/405 lines, with built-in four-band radio, 1937. Hinged lid on top with viewing mirror. Model Number 900, Serial Number 10092.

HMV 900 Television Receiver

1937

Hallicrafters model 505 television receiver,1948. Missing its brown rubber screen bezel & safety 'glass' (Perspex) SEE HAZARD RECORD.

Hallicrafters 505 television receiver

1948

Cossor 1210 15" monochrome television receiver, manufactured by A C Cossor Limited, 1938-1939, Serial No 38542.

Cossor 1210 television receiver

1938-1939

HMV 902 monochrome television receiver, with built-in screen magnifier to give 14 inch picture; with four-band radio and gramophone. Manufactured 1937.

HMV 902 Television Receiver

1937

Sobell Model T90 9" table top television receiver, manufactured by Sobell Industries Ltd, 1949-50. The Sobell T90 model originally cost £56-14-0. Company adverts stated that this set had a beautifully designed 'Best Seller' cabinet. It was also claimed to be an extremely sensitive receiver 'suitable for fringe reception' where the TV signal was very weak'. As with most receivers at the time, there were two versions available - a London model and Midlands model (the sets were pre-tuned at the factory to suit either transmitter).

Sobell Model T90 Television Receiver

1949-50

Early bell telephone and terminal panel, 1877/8, used at Osborne Cottage, 14th January 1878

Early Bell telephone and terminal panel, 1877/8

1877-1878

Megalethoscope by Charles Ponti of Venice.

Megalethoscope

1862

Ferranti radiogram record player, RC70B

Ferranti,radiogram/record play

Ferranti model 455 radiogram.

Ferranti model 455 radiogram.

Baird model T5 'Tele-Visor' mirror lid television receiver, 1936-1937. One of the earliest 405-line 'high-definition' television receivers available. 15" vertical 'Cath-O-Visor' cathode ray tube - the largest screen size available at the time. Priced at 85 Gns. A T5 was used as a monitor in the Baird studio before and during the BBC's 'television trials' at the Alexandra Palace television studios in London in 1936-37. The mirror lid design was necessary due to the length of the cathode ray tubes, almost three feet long, required to create an undistorted 15" image. This set is one of only 10 Baird T5 sets known to survive today.

Baird T5 Television Receiver

1936-1937

'Colortel' mechanical colour adaptor, to fit onto the front of the monochrome television set to convert NTSC-compatible monchrome set to colour using a field sequential disc. Made by Color Converter Inc, Indiana, United States, c. 1955. Part of the Donald Fleming Collection of North American television receivers. Accompanying converter chassis is missing. An associated 14 inch RCA Radiotron cathode ray tube is believed to have been included to swap out with the standard and brighter 24 inch tube in the monochrome television to prevent screen burn when using the ‘Colortel,’ which focussed the bright and colourful images on a small section of the screen.

Col-R-Tel mechanical colour convertor

circa 1955

Pye B18T 9" monochrome television receiver, manufactured by Pye Ltd, 1948-1949. Serial Number 690235.

Pye B18T 9" monchrome television, 1949

1948-1949

Pye vision-only 5 inch television receiver, model 817, by Pye Limited, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, 1938. Restored to working order in 1980.

Pye Vision-only 5 inch television receiver

1938

Philips T43-TU15 console television receiver, type 14370-15, serial no.M2752, manufactured about 1955.

Philips T43-TU15 console television receiver

1950-1959

Bush monochrome tabletop television receiver Model TV11A, table model, Serial No 56/02695, manufactured by Bush Radio Ltd, 1949. Wooden version of TV12.

Bush Television Receiver Model TV11A

1949

Ferguson Model 941T 9 inch television receiver, W493B, Serial No 2563, manufactured by Ferguson at Enfield, 1949.

Ferguson 941T Television Receiver

1949