Cybernetic tortoise, developed to help with studies on brain function Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry 1950-1952
Hoover 'Keymatic' model 3224 washing machine, designed and developed by Hoover Limited engineering laboratories, Perivale, Middlesex, and made by Hoover (Washing Machines) Limited, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, with motors made at Hoover (Electric Motors) Limited, Cambuslang, Scotland, 1963 Hoover 'Keymatic' washing machine Domestic Appliances 1963
Gnome 50 HP 7 Cylinder Rotary aero engine, with metal engine to fuselage gasket, designed by Louis Seguin and Laurent Seguin, and made by Societe des Moteurs Gnome, France, 1908-1914. The engine has seven cylinders, machined out of solid nickel-chrome-steel ingots. The cylinders and crank-chamber revolve around the stationary crankshaft. The carburettor, which is stationary, is of the single-jet type and feeds the engine through the hollow crank shaft. The connecting rods all operate on a single crank pin. Henri Farman used this type of engine to win a prize for the greatest distance flown (180 km), setting a World record. Gnome 50 HP 7 Cylinder Rotary aero engine Aircraft Propulsion 1908-1914
Electric fire with base and stem made of reddish phenol formaldehyde Plastics and Modern Materials 1920-1940
Model, 1:4 scale, of the Miranda X4 satellite, on stand, by Hawker Siddeley Aircraft Company Limited, England, 1973-1974. The Miranda X4 satellite model was constructed for the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE), Farnborough, Hampshire, England. The actual Miranda X4 satellite was originally designed to be launched from the Black Arrow rocket. However, the Black Arrow rocket programme was cancelled. Thus, in 1974, the Miranda X4 satellite was launched by a US Scout rocket instead. The British X Series satellites were technology demonstrators, used to investigate the outer space viability of materials and systems. Model, 1:4 scale Space Technology 1974
Key, for Parautoptic lock, including: Display-set of fifteen changeable Key-Bits; Key-Bits Spindle; Key Shaft Spindle, with decorative end; and Chain attached to Key, by Day & Newell, Manhattan, New York, New York State, United States of America, 1851. Exhibited at the 1851 Great Exhibition, London, England. Key, for Parautoptic lock, exhibited at the 1851 Great Exhibition Locks & Fastenings 1851
