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Pressure gauge and five specimens

Mercurial steam pressure gauge by H. Webster

9" Recording Pressure Gauge reading to 120lbs per sq in.

Bourdon's Pressure Gauge

Smiths combined oil pressure and water temperature gauge type DB

1966

Motor car tyre pump and pressure gauge

1921

German Petrol Pressure gauge. Schaffer and Budenbu

German Petrol Pressure Gauge DRP

Bourdon tube pressure gauge

1983

Budenberg Pressure Gauge

Pressure gauge by Schaffer and Budenberg

1880-1920

Oil Pressure Gauge

Smiths oil pressure gauge type PB, 1966

1966

Oil Pressure Gauge MkVI plain glass front

Air Pressure Gauge MkVI 6563/BR

Oil Pressure Gauge MkVI

Differential pressure gauge

Crosby pressure gauge indicator

Bourdon's Pressure Gauge

6" dial steam pressure gauge

1860

7" Special Low Pressure Gauge (aneroid barometer principle) graduated to 100 hundredths of an inch

6" Steel-tube Pressure Gauge

Pneumatic pressure gauge driven by clockwork

Early Bourdon Pressure Gauge from winding engine

6" Bourdon type Pressure Gauge

Burden Steam Pressure gauge

Aircraft oil pressure gauge 0-40lbs

1910-1920
Model sea gauge, maker unknown, before 1754. Once belonged to Stephen Demainbray.

Demainbray's model sea gauge

1701-1753
Airship envelope air pressure gauge, from the R101 airship, Henry Hughes and Son Limited, London, England, 1929-1930. This gauge was used to measure the pressure of the air surrounding the gas bags in the R101 airship envelope. The air pressure gauge would have been in the control car with tubing running to the interior of the envelope.

Airship envelope air pressure gauge

1929-1930
Pressure gauge by Finney, with 4 dials, 3 pointers, (and one loose), in carved mahogany frame

Pressure gauge by Finney

1760-1772
Rigg's bi-fluid pressure gauge for showing minute difference of pressure

Rigg's bi-fluid pressure gauge

Michelin car tyre pressure gauge

Michelin car tyre pressure gauge

Mine ventilation pressure gauge

Mine ventilation pressure gauge

Pressure gauge, range 0-130 lbs/sq. in., for use with dental vulcanizer, English, 1930-1960

Pressure gauge for use with dental vulcanizer

1930-1960
Air Pressure Gauge MkVI 2217/BN

Air Pressure Gauge MkVI 2217/BN

Hydraulic pressure gauge (sectioned)

Hydraulic pressure gauge (sectioned)

Renrut No.10 compound tyre pump, fitted with rubber connection and Renrut patent pressure gauge made by W. Turner & Co., c. 1920. A non-inventoried sectional drawing of the pump was added in July 1923.

Motor car tyre pump and pressure gauge

circa 1920
Boost gauge from the Bluebird R.R. engine, 301 m.p.h. Daytona beach

Bluebird R.R. engine boost gauge

1962
Bronze Manifold with pressure gauge (0-60 p.s.i.) and 5 cocks (3 with spanners); probably for compressed air

Bronze Manifold with pressure gauge (0-60 p.s.i.)

2 Pressure Gauges

Two steam boiler John Inshaw 1856 Patent pressure gauges

1856
McNaught's steam pressure gauge

McNaught's steam pressure gauge

Mercurial pressure gauge from beam engine 1808, Boulton Watt and Co.

Mercurial pressure gauge from beam engine 1808

1808
Pressure gauges

Pressure gauges

Renrut patent quadruple tyre pump, fitted with rubber connection and Renrut patent pressure gauge, made by W.Turner & Co., c. 1920. A non-inventoried sectional drawing of the pump was added in July 1923.

Motor car tyre pump and pressure gauge

circa 1920
Two tyre pressure gauges, one sectioned, mounted on board 16.5" x 13.25"

Tyre pressure gauges on a board

Kismet universal tyre tester made by W. Turner & Bros. Ltd., 1925

Motor car tyre pressure gauge

1925
2 off differential pressure gauges as used on the RAE RTV 1 & 2 and CTV test vehicles.

2 off differential pressure gauges

Bourdon pressure gauge by Trent, fitted with perspex back for demonstration, scaled 0-20 psi with zero at atmospheric pressure. Supplied by MLI

Bourdon pressure gauge by Trent

Copper fuel-line with three-way ‘T-piece’ threaded pipe connector and at one end: a pressure gauge, unsigned, Europe, 1970-1973. From high altitude, pressurized hot-air balloon ‘Daffodil II’ cabin: with the overall design specification by Julian Nott, England; cabin shell structure designed by Roger Munk at Aerospace Developments, London, England, and Tony Offredi, England; and constructed by Maidboats Limited, Thames Ditton, Surrey, England, 1973. On 25th February 1974, Julian Nott and Felix Pole used ‘Daffodil II’, to break the world hot-air balloon altitude record. They reached a height of 13,961 metres near Lake Bhopal, central India.

Fuel-line with pressure gauge, from hot-air balloon ‘Daffodil II’ cabin: 1974 world altitude record holder

1973
Renrut No.2 single action tyre pump, fitted with rubber connection and Renrut patent pressure gauge made by W.Turner & Co., c. 1920. A non-inventoried sectional drawing of the pump was added in July 1923.

Motor car tyre pump and pressure gauge

circa 1920