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Balloon release mechanism - roller on handle with twine attached

Meteorology

Film badge radiation dosemeters

Nuclear Energy

1980

Model of a Printing Press, 1701-1800

Printing & Writing

1701-1800; 1982

Record flat bed knitting machine with specificatio

Textiles Machinery

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

Heat

1889

Harrison twin flat-bed knitting machine.

Harrison twin flat-bed knitting machine.

Textiles Machinery

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

Asian Medicine

1970-1990

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

Harrison twin flat-bed knitting machine with accessories

Textiles Machinery

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, with stand an

Textiles Machinery

1886

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

Nuclear Energy

1980

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

Four unit, demonstration "Open End" or "Rotor" spi

Textiles Machinery

1986

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

Jones' lock stitch hand sewing machine in its original box w

Textiles Machinery

1895