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Steam locomotive, entitled Evening Star

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1960

Phillip's Economic Computer

Computing & Data Processing

1949

Pullman Car Company, called Topaz

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1913

Compagnie Internationale de Wagon-Lits et de Grands Express Europeens sleeping car, 1933

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1933

'Pedoscope' shoe-fitting X-ray viewer

Radiomedicine

1948-1953

Great Western Railway steam locomotive 'King George V' 4-6-0 King class, No 6000, 1927

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1927

Trevithick's model road locomotive engine

Road Transport

1796-1802

Queen Elizabeth's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1941

Demonstration radio receiver.

Radio Communication

1926

Improved Motiograph projector Model 1-A

Cinematography

1911

Linotype Elektron

Printing & Writing

1962

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

Cinematography

c. 1948

Robinson Air Engine, 1914

Heat Engines (non steam)

1914

First closed diving helmet and breastplate

Protective Clothing

1839

Parson's no. 2 geared turbine fitted to a launch, with two explanatory diagrams

Marine Engines

1897

Accu-Lok radiosonde. For NOAA - National Service, US Dept. of Commerce.

Meteorology

Motor coach, Southern Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1925

Bibby recorder Mark II, Met Ref No 985, MO 22/51, demonstration model, with perspex cover

Meteorology

1951

Accu-Lok radiosonde. For NOAA - National Service, US Dept. of Commerce.

Meteorology

Radiation ratemeter type N600B

Nuclear Energy

1955-1965

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

Electric Switchgear

Electricity Supply

1936

Intertype C4 Linecaster

Printing & Writing

1961

Linotype Model 50SM

Printing & Writing

1926

Intertype C3 Linecaster

Printing & Writing

Section of miniature hospital including entrance and staircase

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

1930-1932

Electronics component section, possibly to fit inside nose cone housing section, inscribed with: ‘E. M. / 67’, from Met Office exhibition rocket sonde model, dummy, for demonstration

Meteorology

1962-1964

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

All-Ceramic Tetrode Amplifier

Electronic Components

1953-1954

Section of miniature hospital including kitchen and theatre

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

1930-1932

Aircraft temperature, humidity & pressure recorder

Meteorology

1941

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

Japanese meteorograph

Meteorology

1941

Mk II radiosonde training device MO 13/48, inscribed: ‘M. O. 13 / 48’

Meteorology

Airsonde, pat. 4, 112, 753

Meteorology

Maxbo Air-jet Loom

Textile Industry

Linotype Model 79

Printing & Writing

1959

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

Lo-cate radiosonde, Serial No. 905-8872

Meteorology

Part of Ground station for German radiosonde

Meteorology

Accu-Lok radiosonde. For NOAA - National Service, US Dept. of Commerce.

Meteorology

Exciter coil in mahogany box, for Lenoir's Gas Engine, 1860

Heat Engines (non steam)

Quadruple expansion launch steam engine of the condensing type

Marine Engines

1898

Radiosonde, Serial No. 800101

Meteorology

1950-1955

Part of Ground station for German radiosonde

Meteorology

Radiosonde ('airsonde' TM) by Atmospheric Instrume

Meteorology

Chart recorder, R. Fuess, London

Meteorology

Telegraph line lightning protector, Russian

Geophysics

Mk II radiosonde training device MO 13/48

Meteorology

Vaisala RS21 radiosonde, serial no 624957-8, for 400 MH3 Meteorological frequency band

Meteorology

1971

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