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Phaeton carriage built by Barker and Co

Phaeton carriage built by Barker and Co

1837-1901
Model of a Printing Press, 1701-1800

Model of a Printing Press, 1701-1800

1701-1800; 1982
Film badge radiation dosemeters

Film badge radiation dosemeters

1980
Record flat bed knitting machine with specification

Record flat bed knitting machine with specification

Singer model 319K lock stitch electric sewing machine and cardboard box containing metal components

Singer model 319K lock stitch electric sewing machine and cardboard box containing metal components

1948-1958
Twisted pattern wall tie

Twisted pattern wall tie

Phaeton Carriage built by Barker and co

Phaeton Carriage built by Barker and co

1837-1901
Open-ended square spanner used with Berthelot-Mahler Bomb Calorimeter

Open-ended square spanner used with Berthelot-Mahler Bomb Calorimeter

1889
Tommy bar wrench used with Berthelot-Mahler Bomb Calorimeter

Tommy bar wrench used with Berthelot-Mahler Bomb Calorimeter

1889
Open-ended square spanner used with Berthelot-Mahler Bomb Calorimeter

Open-ended square spanner used with Berthelot-Mahler Bomb Calorimeter

1889
Lamp cover for toolmaker's microscope

Lamp cover for toolmaker's microscope

1940-1945
Set pattern wall tie

Set pattern wall tie

Model of all-round ore-tipping truck (scale 1:5)

Model of all-round ore-tipping truck (scale 1:5)

1920
Model (scale 1:6) of End-Tipping Ore Truck

Model (scale 1:6) of End-Tipping Ore Truck

1919
Balloon release mechanism - roller on handle with twine attached

Balloon release mechanism - roller on handle with twine attached

Singer model 319K lock stitch electric sewing machine, by the Singer Manufacturing Company, Kilbowie, Clydebank, Dunbartonshire, Scotland, c. 1953.

Singer model 319K lock stitch electric sewing machine

1948-1958
Automatic circular knitting machine, with stand and accessories, made by the Automatic Knitting Machine Co. Ltd., London, c. 1886. Accessories include wool winder, spare needle barrel and wool stand.

Automatic circular knitting machine

1886
Running in board, Northern, ‘Workington North'. Workington North railway station was a temporary railway station in Cumbria, United Kingdom, constructed following floods which cut all road access to Workington town centre from north of the River Derwent. The station was located one mile north of Workington station on the Cumbrian Coast Line. Network Rail began construction of the new station during the night of 24/25 November 2009. The station opened on 30 November 2009, construction having taken six days. The temporary station was built in November when the railway provided a vital lifeline in the aftermath of flooding. The rail industry worked quickly to ensure that the Cumbrian Coast Line kept communities connected when the road network was disrupted, and it carried unprecedented numbers of passengers. When it first opened Workington North was used by over 2000 passengers every day but with the opening of the road bridge in April 2010 use of the temporary station all but ceased. It closed 08 October 2010.

Workington North running in board used during flooding

2009
Aluminium framed ink drawing, on handmade paper, believed to be Shen Nung a mythical figure associated with traditional healing and the introduction of herbal medicines, from the surgery of a British practitioner c.1996, probably by Dr Yoshio Manaka, Japanese, 1970-1990.

Ink drawing, on handmade paper, believed to be Shen Nung

1970-1990
This mild steel lead lined tank and enameled pan top were built at some point between the late 19th century and early 20th century at the Levenstein/Blackley dyeworks which was based in Manchester. The tank is approximately 4 feet 6 inches in diameter, 4 feet 6 inches deep and weighs around one and a half tons. The enameled pan fits on top of the steel tank, and at the bottom of the tank is a porcelain hole where a charge tap would have been installed. Internally, the tank also had lead coiling and lead covered grid agitator to facilitate the mixing of cod liver oil and sulphonic acid.

Mild steel lead lined tank

Early 20th Century
One of three film badge radiation dose monitors used to measure the radiation doses of people working with radioactive materials. The exposure is calculated by measuring the darkening of the film inside the monitor after it is developed.

Film badge radiation dosemeters

1980
Harrison twin flat-bed knitting machine with accessories, a woolwinder and wool stand.

Harrison twin flat-bed knitting machine with accessories

Framed black and white photograph, of male Japanese male medical practitioner, in 'Fujicolour Frame', one of five pictures of various subjects relating to traditional Japanese medicine, from the surgery of a British practitioner c.1996, unsigned, made in Japan, 1970-1990.

Framed photograph of a Japanese male medical practitioner

1970-1990
Jones' lock stitch hand sewing machine in its original box with handbook, c. 1895.

Jones' lock stitch hand sewing machine in its original box with handbook

1887-1895
Harrison twin flat-bed knitting machine.

Harrison twin flat-bed knitting machine.

Four unit, demonstration "Open End" or "Rotor" spinner, 1986; fitted with type 887 MK 2 rotor spinning heads by Platt-Saco-Lowell.

Four unit

1986
V2 Turbopump, German, 1944. The V2 motor was the first large rocket engine to use a turbopump. The pump moved almost 9,000kg of alcohol (fuel) and liquid oxygen (oxidizer) – together these make up the propellant used in the V2 – from the tanks to the combustion chamber during the burning time which lasted 50 seconds. Turbine wheels in the centre of the pump powered the impellers for the propellant. An impeller is the rotating component which increased the pressure, keeping the fuel flowing into the combustion chamber.

V2 Turbopump

1944
Kew standard barometer, unsigned, 1858

Kew standard barometer, 1858

1858
Model (scale 1:50) of a Dredger for Tin Ore, in glazed case (glass at base chipped) and its base

Model of a dredger for tin ore

c1908
Two specimens of wall-ties, mounted on polished wood base

Two specimens of wall-ties