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Shelvador electric compression domestic refrigerator, c. 1934-1935.

1930-1940

Circular electric hot plate for domestic cooking

1892-1900

"Stebull" box shaped electric hair dryer

1920-1940

Hand-operated mill for grinding coffee beans

1880-1900

Charcoal-burning portable ornamental box foot warmer

1750-1850

"Flammenwolf U" electric firelighter (German c.1935)

1935

"Airway" vacuum cleaner, c.1930

1930

Kettle on stand with spirit burner (supposed to have been used by Napoleon at St.Helena)

1958

Seeger dry-air siphon refrigerator, c. 1900.

1880-1920

Reason slot meter, c.1920.

1918-1922

"Swiftsure" copper posser by the British Vacuum Wsher Co. of Islington

1921

Sugar nippers, 19th century.

1880-1900

Kelvinator electric compression domestic refrigerator no 5534

1926

Original vacuum cleaner, from to Royal Naval College

1905

Curved bottom polishing iron, c.1880

1880

Hoover 'Dustette' Vacuum Cleaner

1964

"Electrolux" vacuum cleaner

1927

Cock Brand charcoal iron

1969

Lowdown Suite W.C. pedestal and tank

1882

"Uno" gas coffee roaster

1911-1930

Amplion 'Dragonfly' horn loudspeaker, 1924

Portable paraffin cooking stove

1930-1935

"Ogee-de-Luxe" face massager

1920

British Wolf 'Cubmaster' electric motor drill

1950

Goblin 'Teasmade' model D26

1940-1950

Monitor Top', electric compression domestic refrigerator, USA, 1934.

1934

Aluminium toaster. A `Colombo' product, 230-250V, 600W, single sided with spring flaps, c. 1929

Aluminium toaster. A `Colombo' product

1929

Ediswan valve, type AR.06, green line adjacent to anode pin, (RMW/C83 - McVitie Weston number), by Royal Ediswan, 1925.

McVitie Weston valve collection, Ediswan valve, type AR.06

1925

Sectioned "Swan" brand electric copper kettle, the first type of kettl e to be fitted with a totally immersed heating element and thereby doubling the efficiency of electric kettles, provisional patent no. 33221/ 21, by Bulpitt and Sons Ltd., Birmingham, 1921-1922

Electric copper kettle, with immersed element, sectioned, c. 1921.

1921-1922

"Stimex" combination gas range no. 8706, of cast iron construction with 7-radiant gas fire, Stimson's patent University hot water circulator, boiler, lagged oven, grill, 3 boiling burners and enamel drip tray, by Stimex Gas Stove Co. Ltd., 1922

Stimex' combination gas cooking range, fire and water circulator, 1922.

1922

"Standard" portable electric fire with 6 wire-wound fireclay elements, 2 rotary switches and blue-enamelled cast iron surround with hinged trivet at the top to support a kettle or pan, elements patented by C. R Beslling (patent no. 19,054) in 1912, the "Standard" being the first Belling fire to go into production, by Belling and Co, Enfield, 1912-1920

Belling electric fire, 1913.

1912-1920

‘Griffith’ foot-operated vacuum cleaner (Patent No. 21,304), designed by Walter Griffith, unsigned, Europe, 1905

‘Griffith’ foot-operated vacuum cleaner

circa 1905

Canister-type vacuum cleaner with an electrically driven diaphragm pump (Type R, No. 12624), by British Vacuum Cleaner Company Limited, London, England, 1910-1914

Canister vacuum cleaner with an electrically driven diaphragm pump

1910-1914

Primitive lamp, a stone used as floating wick holder

Primitive lamp

"Sauter" electric semi-storage heater, part sectioned to reveal 1 of 6 heating elements in iron box sunk in concrete, 3 heat settings to tot al of 4KW with storage period of 3 hours, installed as experiment in D un Laoghaire Telephone Exchange, near Dublin in 1938, French, 1938

"Sauter" electric semi-storage heater

1938

Long nickel-topped electric hotplate for use in the dining room, heate d by wires embedded in enamelling according to Dowsing's patent (pat n o 17,092 in 1892), by Crompton and Co, London, 1895

Long nickel-topped electric hotplate for use in the dining room

1895

"Vienna" coffee making machine, comprising circular porcelain base with brass hoop, which supports brass water container, inside which is a metal coffee infuser and a glass dome above, with brass spirit burner and snuffer underneath, European, 1900-1910

"Vienna" coffee making machine

1900-1910

Coffee percolator partly sectioned at the top to reveal the constructi on of the coffee chamber, where coffee is placed on a sieve and compre ssed by a plunger, and hot water poured over it to drip into the chamb er underneath, lightweight metal construction, Italian, 1973

Coffee percolator partly sectioned at the top to reveal the constructi on of the coffee chamber

1973

Hand-operated raisin stoner no. 36, with integral table clamp, works b y feeding wet raisins into toothed rollers which strip the flesh off, US patent 1895, made by Enterprise Manufacturing Co., Philadelphia, U. S.A., 1895-1900

Hand-operated raisin stoner no. 36

1895-1900

Highly ornate solid fuel slow combustion stove in polished iron for wa rming a large room, with a domed lid surmounted by a cupid, and a trivet for a kettle or pan at the rear on top of the flue, originally installed in a large manor house near Salzburg, by Junker and Ruh, Karlsruhe, c.1880

Highly ornate solid fuel slow combustion stove in polished iron for wa rming a large room

1870-1890

`Vapor Control' double-jacketted form of pressure cooker, also known a s the `Goodnews Boilerette', with outer pressurized water jacket which raises inner cooking chamber to high temperature, marketed by Goodnew s Ltd. of London and made by Fogacci of Italy, 1983

`Vapor Control' double-jacketted form of pressure cooker

1983

Iron girdle plate with loop handle for suspension from pot hook, used for baking oatbread and cakes in Scotland and northern England, 1700-1900

Iron girdle plate with loop handle for suspension from pot hook

1700-1900

Sample of nickel-chrome element used in electric kettles, cookers and fires, first patented by A.L. March in 1906 (pat no 2129), by L.G. Hawkins and Co, London, 1966

Sample of nickel-chrome element used in electric kettles

1966

Replica of a copper and bronze Roman water-tube charcoal-fired water heater found in the ruins of Pompeii, vase shape with 2 handles, hinged lid, 3 winged figure feet, and water tubes doubling as firebars at the bottom of a curved flue tube, capacity approx. 14 litres, original in Museo Nazionale di Napoli, 1912-1914

Replica of a copper and bronze Roman water-tube charcoal-fired water heater found in the ruins of Pompeii

1912-1914

"Courtier" continuous burning stove, a response to growing demand for central heating and for compliance with Clean Air regulations, with firedoors patented by Mitchell Russell and Co and Thomas Preston, Bonny bridge, Scotland, 1955

"Courtier" continuous burning stove

1955

"Universal" electric table-top cooker, comprising a circular open coil ed-wire heating element which can be used for boiling or grilling, or which can be turned into an oven when covered by a domed lid, by Lande rs Frary and Clark, USA, 1922-1925

"Universal" electric table-top cooker

1922-1925

"Tortoise" cast iron solid fuel slow combustion stove, for room heatin g, small model, by C. Portway of Halstead, Essex, 1900-1940

"Tortoise" cast iron solid fuel slow combustion stove

1900-1940

"New World" H16 gas cooker by Radiation Ltd., early example of first type of cooker to contain the Regulo oven thermostat to produce accurate cooking times, with bottom-flued lagged oven, double grill, four Rad o burners, most efficient cooker of inter-war period, 1923-1925

"New World" H16 gas cooker by Radiation Ltd.

1923-1925

Charcoal-fuelled Samovar, in which charcoal is burned in a grate at the base of a central flue tube to provide constant supply of hot water or tea in surrounding vessel, teapot shape with perforated base, pair of hinged lids and ornate floral decoration, metal, Middle Eastern or Russian, 1880-1920

Charcoal-fuelled Samovar

1880-1920

Portable flueless gas fire, urn-shaped earthenware with art nouveau de coration, brown glaze and removeable lid, with interior multi-hole non -aerated burner which heats a curved fireclay radiant above, probably English, 1880-1900

Portable flueless gas fire

1880-1900

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