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APEX Autonomous Drifting Profiler, or Argo float, 2010

2010

PDP 10 operators console, 1966-1970

1966-1970

Prototype 90 channel MRI cap

2009-2010

Raytheon 6D6 VM RD pentode valve (McVitie Weston valve collection), 1934-1972

1934-1972

Chamberlain's Improved Drawing Board

1849

Additional seven rubber grommets

2010

Wearable experimental ‘Galvactivator’ glove for measuring skin conductance and displaying physiological and emotional state

1999

Experimental interactive name badge ‘thinking tag’

1982-1983

‘Fits U’ eye preservers, United States, 1914-1916

1914-1916

Growth and development charts for boys

1985

DEC PDP8 Computer

1972

'Electric Build-it Set' educational toy

1956-1960

Power shoes created by The Responsive Environments Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Laboratory

1999

Pool's charting rule, c. 1830

1825-1835

Wearable experimental motion capture ‘sensing glove’ for computer animation

1982-1983
The 'Hasher', 'Athol' or 'Steamboat' hand-operated food-chopping machine, with ratchet mechanism to rotate container and beam and crank mechanism to work the chopper, all mounted on wooden base, invented by L.S . Starrett of Massachusetts, U.S.A., 1860-1900

The 'Hasher', 'Athol' or 'Steamboat' hand-operated food-chopping machine

1860-1900
125x100mm dark brown rectangular union case by Littlefield, Parsons and Company. Centre design of case similar to 1990-5036/UC03. Interior houses a trade paper mounted within oval gilt matt frame with shield design in four corners edged with leaves and surmounted with star a Leaf design around edges. Purple plush lining with formal design. No picture. Exterior design shows an intricate scene with a man kneeling behind a low table with two noblemen standing to the right and a horse behind.

Rectangular Union Case by Littlefield, Parsons and Company

Core plane from Whirlwind computer, made by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for U.S. Navy, operation in 1951

Core plane from computer

1951
Morton’s sheet chenille, second method. July 1921. Pencil layout drawing of textile machinery from the Worcester Loom Works, Worcester, Massachusetts. No. 732.

Norton’s sheet chenille, second method pencil drawing

July 1921
DEC writer hardcopy terminal, model LA30, with dot-matrix printer. Manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, Mass., USA, c1971.

DEC writer hardcopy terminal, model LA30

1971
Color Eye reflectance spectrophotometer, "signature model" by Instrument Development Laboratories, Kollmorgen Corp. - Mass, USA, with sola electric transformer, 1960--1963

Color Eye reflectance spectrophotometer

1960-1963
A black and white silver gelatin photograph entitled "Scene at Autotrailer Camp, Pennis Port, Massachusetts", taken by Carl Mydans in September 1936. From the Impressions Gallery exhibition "From Shore to Shining Shore", shown 25 November - 24 December 1978.

Scene at Autotrailer Camp, Massacheusetts

1936-09
Associated Press photograph titled 'Laurence Olivier receives Master of Arts degree'. Image shows actor Laurence Olivier receiving a Master of Arts degree from Tufts College while his wife, Vivien Leigh, watches from the crowd.

Laurence Olivier at Tufts College

21 June 1946
Drill sharpening machine, with attachments (2) and collets (107), by the Black Diamond Saw and Machine Co., Massachusetts, USA, c. 1950

Drill sharpening machine

1950
Jaco non-recording microphotometer, model 2110, by Jarrell-Ash, Massachusetts, USA., 1960-1965

Jaco non-recording microphotometer

1960-1965