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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

Sargrove sprayed circuit radio receiver production prototype, 1936-1948

Electronic Components

1936-1948

Ekco A D 75 receiver, 1946

Radio Communication

1946

Aldis Minor slide projector

Cinematography

1953

Pye B16T television receiver, 1946-1950

Television

1946-1948

200 series dial telephone, 1925-1935

Telecommunications

1925-1935

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

Radio Communication

1944-1945

Table telephone No. 2, 1906-1959

Telecommunications

1906-1959

Jones 50-line switchboard, 1879.

Telecommunications

1879

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

Radio Communication

1936-1955

Home made 30-line televisor, 1934

Radio Communication

1934

Original wheel or steel-disc coherer, 1902

Radio Communication

1902

Edison telephone peg switchboard and pegs, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Crossley table telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Morse key, 1850-1870.

Telecommunications

1850-1870

Sargrove sprayed-circuit radio receiver experiment, 1936-1937

Electronic Components

1936-7

Face phantom for practicing eye operations

Ophthalmology

1907-1930

Moulded unprocessed bakelite panel ready for ECME, 1936-1955

Radio Communication

1936-1955

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

Radio Communication

1947-1948

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

Radio Communication

1894

'Cat's whisker' Crystal Radio

Radio Communication

1920-1925

Cascade generator built at the Cavendish Laboratory

Nuclear Physics

1937

Demonstration radio receiver.

Radio Communication

1926

Bush TV22 television receiver

Plastics and Modern Materials

1950-1954

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

Cinematography

1929

Aircraft radio telephony transmitter, complete with round valve and microphone

Radio Communication

1915

Coronet Midget camera

Photographic Technology

1935

Bottle of the opiate painkiller 'Papine'

Medical Glass-ware

1890-1920

Bubble Sextant MK IX

Aeronautics

1939-1941

Cascade generator for 1.5 million volt accelerator

Nuclear Physics

1937

'Rathbone' dental unit, London, England, 1932

Dentistry

1932

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

Admiralty-pattern frame sextant

Navigation

1942-1947

Cardiac pacemaker, Birmingham, England, 1960-1970

Therapeutics

1960-1970

Radio equipment made for Brighton Borough Police, 1933-1939

Radio Communication

1933-1939

Heart-lung machine, Europe, 1950-1979

Surgery

1950-1979

Glass bottle of morphine sulphate

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1960-1985

Brown glass bottle of aspirin and opium tablets

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1950-1970

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

Circular plastic ashtray with Michelin man

Plastics and Modern Materials

1931-1950

Sargrove sprayed-circuit radio receiver (experimental model), made by John Sargrove, Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England, 1936-1937.

Sargrove sprayed-circuit radio receiver experiment, 1936-1937

Electronic Components

1936-7

GEC 1091 television receiver

Television

c. 1949

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

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

Distance meter

Navigation

1942-1961

Model 82 Marconiphone super-heterodyne receiver, 1927-1930

Radio Communication

1927-1930

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