Section of miniature hospital including entrance and staircase Nursing & Hospital Furnishings 1930-1932
Two-stroke double-acting single cylinder gas engine, patented by Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir, France, 1860, and made by Reading Iron Works Limited, Reading, Berkshire, England, 1865. Lenoir's gas engine, 1860 Heat Engines (non steam) 1865
Kodak Kodascope 8 Model 30 projector. For 8mm film 200 feet reels, claw intermittent, 2 sprockets. Motor speed control, lamp switch, for 110 or 240 volts. Kodak Kodascope 8 Model 30 projector. For 8mm film 200 feet reels Cinematography c. 1948
Two-stroke double-acting single cylinder gas engine, patented by Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir, France, 1860, and made by Reading Iron Works Limited, Reading, Berkshire, England, 1865. The first internal-combustion engine to be offered for sale, in 1860, Lenoir's engine was an ancestor of the engines in all road vehicles. The engine worked very like a simple double-acting steam-engine. At each stroke gas and air were drawn into the cylinder and fired by an electric spark; on the return stroke the burnt gases were flushed out. Several hundred of these engines were sold, and this one is a very rare survivor. It had been used to drive machinery in the workshop of the Patent Museum for about three years. Lenoir's gas engine, 1860 Heat Engines (non steam) 1865
Beardmore Heavy Oil engine, diesel engine, Tornado Mark III (No. 35, A.103459), by William Beardmore and Company Limited, Parkhead, Lanarkshire, Scotland, 1928. The Beardmore Heavy Oil engine, diesel engine, Tornado Mark III (No. 35, A.103459) was tested and used in several flight trials on the H.M. Airship R. 101. However, it is thought unlikely that this engine was on the final flight when the H.M. Airship R. 101 crashed. Beardmore Heavy Oil diesel engine, from Airship R. 101 Aircraft Propulsion 1928
Swash-plate axial aero engine, designed by John Wooler and made by the Wooler Motor Cycle Company (1919) Limited, Middlesex, England, 1947 Swash-plate axial aero engine Aircraft Propulsion 1947
Turbojet, six-stage axial flow compressor, single stage turbine, Westinghouse model-19A ‘Yankee’ aero engine: original outline design by Dr. Stewart Way at Westinghouse Research Laboratories and detailed design by Westinghouse steam turbine division and built by Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company, United States of America, 1943. The Westinghouse model-19A ‘Yankee’ was the first jet engine to be designed and built in the United States of America. Westinghouse Turbo-jet model-19A 'Yankee' Aircraft Propulsion 1943
General services, isolation room, X-ray department, hospital block model, part of miniature hospital made for publicity for King Edward's Hospital Fund for London, 1930-1932 Section of miniature hospital including X-ray department Nursing & Hospital Furnishings 1930-1932
Sectioned and operating example of the Napier ‘Sabre’ aero engine, with two reduction gear casing lugs, by D. Napier and Son Limited, England, 1944-1946 Sectioned example of the Napier ‘Sabre’ aero engine Aircraft Propulsion 1944-1946
Bibby recorder Mark II, Met Ref No 985, MO 22/51, demonstration model, with perspex cover Meteorology 1951
Hand-held flash reflector with moulded plastic pistol grip, metal dish, fitted with `Sashalite' brand flash bulb, screw fitting. British made, 1930s, Patent 370142. Flash Reflector With 'Sashalite' Flash Bulb Photographic Technology 1930s
230 H.P. Benz six-cylinder water cooled aero engine No. 33.278, by Benz & Cie, Mannheim, Germany, 1916. Later, the engine No. 33.278 is ascribed with British War Department number: W.D. No. 101,863. 230 H.P. Benz six-cylinder water cooled aero engine No. 33.278 Aircraft Propulsion 1916
