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Large main jigger (oscillation transformer) in wood case (No. 72260), made by Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company Limited, Chelmsford, Essex, England, 1900-1950

Main jigger (oscillation transformer), 1900-1950

Radio Communication

1900-1950

Radio, British Rail, Pye, ex Penistone Control Panel.

Radio, ex Penistone Control Panel - British Rail

Miscellanea & Curiosities

Ragar No. 6 Folding Camera

Photographic Technology

1925-1935

Mouth prop, bakelite and rubber 1880 to 1920

Surgery

1880-1920

Inventum Electric Fire

Domestic Appliances

1932-1937

Stem pessary, bakelite and steel, probably British

Therapeutics

1901-1930

Bruning's handle for electrical laryngo-tracheo-br

Therapeutics

1920-1930

Six-20 Brownie Folding Camera

Photographic Technology

1952

Metropolitan-Vickers Cosmos thermionic triode valve

Radio Communication

1923

Electromagnetic machine containing 2 dry batteries

Therapeutics

1920

Flash

Photographic Technology

1910

Electric Fire

Domestic Appliances

Ediswan Electric Room Heater

Domestic Appliances

1917

Cleartron thermionic triode valve

Radio Communication

1927

Cossor thermionic triode valve

Radio Communication

1933

Telephone Handset

Telecommunications

Electric kettle, Cat. No. 8003

Domestic Appliances

Mullard thermionic triode valve

Radio Communication

1923

Visibility Meter Mark IB, 1942

Meteorology

1942

Lunar globe

Astronomy

1961-1964

Brown Bakelite collapsing camera for 120 rollfilm 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches. Meniscus lens, sliding plate with three apertures, T/I shutter, rotating reflecting finder. Kodak Limited. 1930.

No 2 Hawkette camera

Photographic Technology

1930

Photographic Lamps

Photographic Technology

1935-1940

sectioned pair of prismatic binoculars, 6x25, glas

Optics

1934

Eustachian catheter, bakelite, in leatherette cont

Surgery

1920-1950

Gas Cooker

Domestic Appliances

1930-1950

Marconi - B.B.C. lip microphone with equaliser unit

Radio Communication

2 eustachian catheters, bakelite, in leatherette c

Surgery

1920-1950

EAI Electric to Air Converter

Scientific Instruments & Research

Empire cinematograph classroom model 9

Cinematography

1926-1930

Chloroform Inhaler with case

Anaesthesiology

1862-1900

Dekko cine camera, standard model. Bakelite body. For 9.5mm film. Fitted with a Dallmeyer lens f/1.9-16, F: 1 inch, Serial No 168295. Helical focusing, screw mount, interchangeable with Dallmeyer popular telephoto lens F: 3 inches, f/4-32, Serial No185071. Helical focusing. Variable speed clockwork motor 8, 16, 64 fps. Single frame facility. Direct vision optical finder, frames marked for 20mm, 25mm and 75mm lenses. Rotary footage counter. Dekko Cameras. Bakelite-bodied cine camera has an 'Art Deco' design.

Dekko 9.5mm Cine camera, standard model

Cinematography

1934

Durst '243' masking frame for printing with photographic enlarger, with original instructions, made by Durst S.A., Bolzano, Bozen, Italy,c. 1960.

Durst '243' Masking Frame

Photographic Technology

1960

Glass bottle of 25, 10mg "Testoral" tablets (testosterone B.P.), with a bakelite lid. 45 mm x 28 mm diameter. Blue and cream printed label is adhered to the glass and reinforced with plastic, reading, '25/SUBLINGS/ 10mg//TESTORAL/.../ORGAN ON LABORATORIES LIMITED/BRETTENHAM HOUSE LONDON W.C.2' Manufactured by Organon Laboratories Ltd., English, 1910-1950.

Bottle of Testoral tablets

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1910-1950

Baird Mirror Drum Televisor 'kit', built by Harry Arnfield, 1934.

Baird Mirror Drum Televisor

Television

1934

Airborne programmable bomb release mechanism. Used in WWII on heavy bombers.

Airborne programmable bomb release mechanism. Used

Farnborough

Vacuum cleaner, by Tellus, London, made in Denmark, 1945-1960

Vacuum cleaner, by Tellus, London, made in Denmark, 1945-196

Chiropody

1945-1960

Glass bottle with bakelite lid containing tablets of Aspirin and Dover's Powder (opium and ipecac). 103 mm x 56 mm diameter, 236 g. Prepared by The British Drug Houses Ltd., London, 1930-1960.

Bottle containing tablets of Aspirin and Dover's Powder

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1930-1960

‘Strobotac’ stroboscope (type 631-B, serial no 2132) by General Radio Co., Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1935-1937. Used for early research on aircraft radar detection (c,1935), at the Royal Radar Establishment, Malvern and after 1946 at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment ,Harwell

Strobotac by General Radio Co., Cambridge, Massach

Nuclear Physics

1935

Marconiphone Model 701 dual-standard (240/405 line) television receiver with built-in radio, 1936.

Marconiphone Model 701 television receiver

Television

1936

Siemens Hellschreiber receiver in bakelite case

Radio Communication

c. 1940

Kemco HoMovie camera. Cine-Kodak Model B pattern cine camera in Bakelite, for 16mm film. Takes 4 small frames to each 'standard' 16mm frame area by oscillating gate. Wollensak Cine-Velostigmat lens f/3.5 No 3499; clockwork drive. Folding optical frame finder. No 1132. The Kodel Electric and Mfg Co, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Kemco HoMovie camera

Cinematography

1925-1935

35mm hand cranked motion picture camera owned and used by natural history photographer and cinematographer Cherry Kearton (1871-1940), bearing the label 'The Charles Urban Trading Company, London & Paris', fitted with a J H Dallmeyer brass-barrelled lens with rack and pinion focussing and drop in aperture wheel adjustments. On heavy black stained wooden tripod with extending legs.

35mm cine camera used by Cherry Kearton

Cinematography

early 20th century

Clear glass shop round with bakelite lid for 1,000 dexamphetamine sulphate (dextroamphetamine) tablets, 5mg, with trace contents. 149 mm x 73 mm diameter, 314 g. Dextroamphetamine is a pscyhotropic drug which relieves fatigue. Savory & Moore, Ltd., English, 1920-1955.

Shop round of Dexamphetamine sulphate

Medical Glass-ware

1920-1955

Amber glass ribbed bottle full of Glycerine of Belladonna, B.P.C. with bakelite lid (see note)

Gottle containing glycerine of belladonna

Medical Glass-ware

Ebner rollfilm camera made by Ebner Stuttgart-Vaihingen a/F. Moulded bakelite self erecting bellows camera for 120 film, 8 on. Rodenstock Trinar anastigmat lens F:10.5 cm, f.613-36. Gautier Pronto shutter 25/50/100/B/T everset, cable release socket. Frontcell focusing inf. - 1.5m. Reflecting brilliant finder and wire frame direct finder, collapsing into body. With German instructions for Compur shutter model. In original carton, with box for cable release and tripod adaptor.

Ebner rollfilm camera

Photographic Technology

1934

Roller drum unit for agitating tissue cultures in fluid media, by Matburn Limited, London, England, 1946-1956. Used at the Common Cold Research Unit, Harvard Hospital, Harnham Down, Wiltshire, England 1958-1959.

Roller drum unit for agitating tissue cultures

Public Health & Hygiene

1958-1959

Green glass poison bottle with bakelite lid full of Dover's Powder tablets (TAB. IPECAC. ET OPII). By Wright, Layman and Umney Ltd., English, 1920-1960.

Poison bottle of Dover's Powder tablets

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1920-1960

Diathermy unit, model Intertherm No. 613, by Stanley Cox Ltd., English, 1930-1950

Diathermy unit, model Intertherm No. 613, by Stanley Cox Ltd

Chiropody

1930-1950

'Prestige' pressure cooker, aluminium, by Platers & Stampers Ltd., England, 1950-55. Supplied with 3 drainer dividers, plate with standard plastic measuring cup for adding water.

'Prestige' pressure cooker and accessories, England, 1950-55

Domestic Appliances

1950-1955

Original type-heading optophone, with original batteries, by Dr. Edmund Edward Fournier D'Albe, 1918

Optophone

Acoustics

1918