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Phillip's Economic Computer

Computing & Data Processing

1949

main frame, for Automatic Computing Engine (ACE) pilot model, 1949

Computing & Data Processing

1949

Hollerith 45 column horizontal electrical sorting machine, 1920-1930

Computing & Data Processing

1920-1930

Pye B16T television receiver, 1946-1950

Television

1946-1948

Home made 30-line televisor, 1934

Radio Communication

1934

Wartime civilian receiver A.C.mains type, 1944-1945

Radio Communication

1944-1945

Sargrove sprayed circuit radio receiver production prototype, 1936-1948

Electronic Components

1936-1948

Cascade generator built at the Cavendish Laboratory

Nuclear Physics

1937

Table telephone No. 2, 1906-1959

Telecommunications

1906-1959

Aldis Minor slide projector

Cinematography

1953

Demonstration radio receiver.

Radio Communication

1926

Edison telephone peg switchboard and pegs, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Crossley table telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Sargrove sprayed-circuit radio receiver experiment, 1936-1937

Electronic Components

1936-7

Jones 50-line switchboard, 1879.

Telecommunications

1879

two-valve radio receiver made on the ECME machine, 1947-1948

Radio Communication

1947-1948

Ekco A D 75 receiver, 1946

Radio Communication

1946

six-stage super heterodyne receiver processed on the ECME system, 1936-1955

Radio Communication

1936-1955

Original wheel or steel-disc coherer, 1902

Radio Communication

1902

Morse key, 1850-1870.

Telecommunications

1850-1870

Moulded unprocessed bakelite panel ready for ECME, 1936-1955

Radio Communication

1936-1955

200 series dial telephone, 1925-1935

Telecommunications

1925-1935

Flat steel-spring (or watch-spring) coherer, 1894

Radio Communication

1894

'Cat's whisker' Crystal Radio

Radio Communication

1920-1925

Bell & Howell Filmo 70 C-2 16mm cine camera

Cinematography

1929

Bottle of the opiate painkiller 'Papine'

Medical Glass-ware

1890-1920

Bubble Sextant MK IX

Aeronautics

1939-1941

Coronet Midget camera

Photographic Technology

1935

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

Cascade generator for 1.5 million volt accelerator

Nuclear Physics

1937

Bush TV22 television receiver

Plastics and Modern Materials

1950-1954

Glass bottle of morphine sulphate

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1960-1985

Folding camera, in maroon bakelite, for 120 rollfilm, 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches. Simple lens, rotating plate with four apertures 1-4; T/I flipflop shutter. Brilliant refelcting rotating finder. Sliding focusing with click stops 'near' and 'far'. Maroon bellows.

The Soho Cadet camera

Photographic Technology

'Rathbone' dental unit, London, England, 1932

Dentistry

1932

Admiralty-pattern frame sextant

Navigation

1942-1947

"Lightometer" light meter model E703 (for inspecti

Optics

1950-1960

'Pneumostat' inhaler, London, England, 1934-1935

Therapeutics

1934-1935

Heart-lung machine, Europe, 1950-1979

Surgery

1950-1979

Home-constructed Williamson amplifier, c. 1949

Radio Communication

Face phantom for practicing eye operations

Ophthalmology

1907-1930

Collapsing camera in brown Bakelite for 120 rollfilm 2 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches. Fitted with a simple lens, T/I shutter, sliding plate with three apertures, rotating reflecting finder. Kodak Limited, 1930.

No 2 Hawkette camera

Photographic Technology

1930

broadcast receiver radio, Britain, 1950-55

Radio Communication

1950-1955

Self erecting folding camera for 828 rollfilm 50 x 30mm. Fitted with a meniscus lens f/10 T/I shutter. Direct vision optical finder. Moulded in brown bakelite. Coronet Camera Co.

Coronet Vogue camera

Photographic Technology

1937

Cystoscope, plated metal, in wooden case, European

Clinical Diagnosis

1890-1930

Bottle of 'Papine'

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1920-1950

Radio, British Rail, GEC, curved front, ex Penistone Control Panel.

Radio, ex Penistone Control Panel - British Rail

Miscellanea & Curiosities

Radio, ex Montgomery's saloon which formed part of a train for his use pending invasion of Europe, 1944.

radio - ex montgomery saloon

Miscellanea & Curiosities

Radio equipment made for Brighton Borough Police, 1933-1939

Radio Communication

1933-1939

Cardiac pacemaker, Birmingham, England, 1960-1970

Therapeutics

1960-1970

Earphone unit from radio equipment made for Brighton Borough Police, made by the Wireless Telephone Company Limited, British, 1933-1939

earphone unit made for Brighton Borough Police, 1933-1939

Radio Communication

1933-1939