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Category
Collection
Maker
Object type
Place
Material
Date

Nylon rotor blade of motor boat.

Nineteen individual blades of various sizes

Razor blade sharpener, c. 1910

Adze with stone blade from Fiji.

Adze, Tahiti stone blade

"End-tightened" reaction blade

"End-tightened" reaction blade

Shrouded blade

1889

Copper shrouding for blades

Brass dummy strip

Blade, drilled for assembly

Copper dummy strip

Hollow steam turbine blade, part sectioned, 1933

1933

Two segments of full size blades of a steam turbine

Aluminium blade - blue striped dyed anodised finish

1980

Adze, Trobriand, diosite blade

One steam-turbine rotor blade, 36" long.

V2 rocket - turbine blade

Low Pressure Rotor Blade

1 1/2" Acme blade with detachable headed shaft

Alternative "Blade" Foresight

High Pressure turbine Rotor Blade from Olympus 593, (Concorde)

Seven Swann-Morton sterilised surgical blades

Fixed blades and maker's nameplate

Triangular stone implement with cutting edge

1800-1920

9 flint chips or blades, possibly neolithic

3000-1500

Lozenge root radial clearance reaction blade

Segment radial clearance short brazed group type of reaction blading

Jewellers saw less blade.

Jewellers saw less blade.

Steel ice skating blade

Steel ice skating blade

Bronze adze blade probably early dynastic, c.3000 B.C.

Bronze adze blad

circa 3000 BCE

Section of composite rotor blade from Lynx helicopter, 1985

Section of composite rotor blade from Lynx helicopter

Sectioned root end of blade

Sectioned root end of blade

Wooden airscrew blade showing stages of manufacture

Wooden airscrew blade

Blades, Examples of turbo blower blades

Examples of turbo blower blades

Bronze adze blade, New Kingdom, c.1200 B.C.

Bronze adze blade

1200 BCE

Turbines disc blades for Bristol Siddeley Mamba gas turbine

Turbines disc blades

Turbine disc with some blades for BMW 003 gas turbine

Turbine disc

Pair of patent Resilient cycle fork blades, in high manganese steel

Pair of patent Resilient cycle fork blades

1934

Five specimens showing the stages in the manufacture of the blade of the Kent Felling Axe

Five specimens showing the stages in the manufacture of the blade of the Kent Felling Axe

1922

'Leitner-Watts' two-bladed metal airscrew with detachable and adjustable blades

'Leitner-Watts' two-bladed metal airscrew with detachable and adjustable blades