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One Millers Falls No 5 hand drill.

Smith Corona 7000LT personal word processor with associated printer

1990

Pair of four-wheeled roller skates

1876-1996

Flow Meter Orifice Calculator in card

1950-1960

Slide rule for wire spring calculations with one slider

1955

Watch, series 'E'

Watch, series 'E'

1801-1900

Keystone Press Agency photograph titled 'Stars aboard crippled plane'. Caption on back reads: Sir Laurence Olivier and his wife, Vivien Leigh, returning to London after a triumphant first night of Henry V in new York, were in crash-landing of Pan-American Clipper last night, They and 40 other passengers were unhurt. The plane developed an engine trouble, and was trying to return to LaGuardia Airfield, New York, when an engine caught fire and fell out. The plane made a crash-landing with wheels up in an emergency field at Willimantic, Connecticut. Luckily this was a perfect "belly landing". Photo shows -- Vivien Leigh and her husband, Laurence Olivier, famous British film and stage stars who escaped unhurt in the clipper crash, are changing to another plane, to continue their journey.

Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh boarding a plane

19 June 1945

Blickensderfer typewriter (Blick portable),1893

Blickensderfer Typewriter, 1893

1893

Two colour illustrated postage stamps advertising The Alderman Drug Co. One Stamp features 'Toilet Goods' with an illustration of a woman powdering her face and another 'Roll Films Developed' with an illustration of a photographer and features the wording 'Kodak Agency'. Both are unused. The Alderman Drug Company, based in Hartford, Connecticut, was a pharmaceutical business that, like many pharmacies, sold and processed photographic film.

The Alderman Drug Co'. Stamps

Oil lamp for microscopy, by Charles Baker, London, 1885-1900

Oil lamp for microscopy

1885-1900

Watch, series 'F' Duplex

Watch, series 'F' Duplex

1801-1900

Four colour illustrated stamps; three advertising 'The Alderman Drug Co.', with two featuring the wording 'Kodak Agency' and one stamp advertising the Metropolitan Pharmacy, Seattle, Washington. The first reads 'Where Quality Counts', the second, 'In Business For Your Health', the third, 'Prescriptions Accurately Filled' and lastly, another 'Where Quality Counts'. All are unused. The Alderman Drug Company, based in Hartford, Connecticut, was a pharmaceutical business that, like many pharmacies, sold and processed photographic film. These stamps have two letters and a business card attached which outline the donation of "some very interesting stamps", from a Mr. Victor B. Roberts, former credit manager of Ilford Limited to Kodak Museum curator Brian Coe in June 1978, via R.F. Tredwen in Kodak's public relations department.

The Alderman Drug Co'. and Metropolitan Pharmacy Stamps

'Universal' electric food mixer with double-rotary beaters, featuring an open electric motor, hinge to adjust position of mixer, and ability to fit attachments, all metal, by Landers Frary and Clark, U.S.A., 1915-1920

'Universal' electric food mixer and beater, c. 1918.

1915-1920

Six wooden boxes containing lantern slides (210) illustrations from reports 1-4 and 2nd Review from the Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories, Gebel Moya Excavations, and the first Zeppelin raid on London, with two albums of prints of slides, 1905-1915

Lantern slides and albums of prints of slides, 1905-1915

1903-1915

Socket screw selector chart in slide-rule format, revised March 1957 by Holo-Krome Screw Corporation, Connecticut

Socket screw selector chart in slide-rule format

1957

Bathythermograph Type CTB(shallow), by Bristol Co., Connecticut, c. 1940

Bathythermograph Type CTB(shallow)

1940

Infrared spectrophotometer, Perkin-Elmer model 12c, Connecticut, United States, 1944-1950

Infrared spectrophotometer, Perkin-Elmer model 12c, United States, 1944-1950

1944-1950