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Phillip's Economic Computer

Computing & Data Processing

1949

'Pedoscope' shoe-fitting X-ray viewer

Radiomedicine

1948-1953

Trevithick's model road locomotive engine

Road Transport

1796-1802

Section of miniature hospital including entrance and staircase

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

1930-1932

Section of miniature hospital including kitchen and theatre

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

1930-1932

Centanaest anaesthetic apparatus

Anaesthesiology

1950-1970

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

Demonstration radio receiver

Radio Communication

1926

Robinson Air Engine, 1914

Heat Engines (non steam)

1914

Aircraft radio telephony transmitter, complete with round valve and microphone

Radio Communication

1915

First closed diving helmet and breastplate

Protective Clothing

1839

Improved Motiograph projector Model 1-A

Cinematography

1911

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

Quadruple expansion launch steam engine of the condensing type

Marine Engines

1898

Magneto Port Type ZH6 No. 2090658, for 230 H.P. Benz Aero engine No. 33.278

Aircraft Propulsion

1926

`Sashalite' brand flash bulb, screw fitting. Glass bulb containing aluminium foil, manufactured by GEC Ltd, 1930s.

'Sashalite' Flash Bulb

Photographic Technology

1930s

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

Hofmann's gas Demonstration Apparatus.

Experimental Chemistry

1875-1876

Matrix binocular optical depth testing instrument

Printing & Writing

1929

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

Meteorology

1971

Maxbo Air-jet Loom

Textile Industry

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

Marine Engines

1897

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

Solartron oscilloscope model CD568

Nuclear Physics

1955-1961

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

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

Radiation ratemeter type N600B

Nuclear Energy

1955-1965

Electric Switchgear

Electricity Supply

1936

Linotype Model 79

Printing & Writing

1959

Linotype Elektron

Printing & Writing

1962

Intertype C4 Linecaster

Printing & Writing

1961

Linotype Model 50SM

Printing & Writing

1926

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

Demonstration radiation monitor type 1187A

Nuclear Energy

1955-1970

Aircraft temperature, humidity & pressure recorder

Meteorology

1941

Igniter, for Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir's gas engine, 1860

Heat Engines (non steam)

1865

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

Part of Ground station for German radiosonde

Meteorology

Lo-cate radiosonde, Serial No. 905-8872

Meteorology

Airsonde, pat. 4, 112, 753

Meteorology

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

Meteorology

1951

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

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

Meteorology

Aircraft temperature, humidity and pressure recorder

Meteorology

1939

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

Meteorology

Component, from Four-Barrel Piston Pump, bolted to mahogany stand

Pumping Machinery

1817

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

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

Meteorology

Chart recorder, R. Fuess, London

Meteorology

Radiosonde ('airsonde' TM) by Atmospheric Instrume

Meteorology