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Model of South African Airways Boeing 747

Aeronautics

Model Aircraft

Aeronautics

Promotional model of Avro RJ115 airliner

Aeronautics

Sectioned aircraft model

Aeronautics

1990

Armdroid robotic arm

Lifting & Mechanical Handling

1981

Minnitt gas-air analgesia apparatus, England, 1943-1960

Anaesthesiology

1943-1960

Scale model of Air Canada Boeing 747-200

Aeronautics

1990
Swash-plate axial aero engine, designed by John Wooler and made by the Wooler Motor Cycle Company (1919) Limited, Middlesex, England, 1947

Swash-plate axial aero engine

Aircraft Propulsion

1947

Packet of Norplant Contraceptive Implants, Middlesex, England, 1993

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1993

Rectangular pane of glass with engraved inscriptio

Astronomy

1857

Unknown components - inside cardboard box - for the Swash-plate axial aero engine

Aircraft Propulsion

1947

Apparatus for showing distortion in the photoheliograph

Astronomy

1858-1876

Stereoscopic slide of the full Moon photographed f

Astronomy

X-ray cassette, 4 3/4 x 6 1/2-inches

X-rays

1963

Type 55 Ozoniser no.79

Experimental Chemistry

c. 1925

Box of glass sheets

Industrial Metrology

Air-insulated x-ray tube insert with copper anode and grid control of the filament emission

X-rays

1950-1974

Bottle of "Tetrex" capsules, with instructions in

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1964-1967

Ammonium Chloride and morphine mixture

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1976-1982

Upper swash-plate housing, for the Swash-plate axial aero engine

Aircraft Propulsion

1947

High-voltage switching triode control valve

X-rays

1960-1984

Sewing machine

Domestic Appliances

c.1952
Two boxed bottles of Denclen denture cleaning liquid, free samples, by International Laboratories Ltd., Sunbury-on-Thames, England, 1970-1978

Two boxed bottles of Denclen denture cleaning liqu

Dentistry

1970-1978

Culpeper

.Unattributed

1713-1738
`Bylock' electric hairdryer, all-bakelite casing, 200-250V; 0.2-2.5A; 50-550W; 50 cycles; 9,500 revs, machine no.12W73459B; to B.S.170/39. Made in England by Bylock Electric Ltd, South St., Ponders End, Middx. c.1945

'Bylock' electric hairdryer, 1945.

Domestic Appliances

1941-1950
One of two circular diapositive photographs of the full Moon taken by Warren De La Rue [1858-1868] through a 13-inch reflecting telescope with a speculum mirror and using wet colloidon plates. The instrument was carried on a German type clock-driven equatorial mounting housed in his observatory at Cranford, Middlesex.

Photograph of the Moon taken by Warren De La Rue

Astronomy

1858-1868
Tin of Glucodin Glucose-D powder (dextrose monohydrate), by Glaxo, 1950-1980

Tin of Glucodin Glucose-D powder

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1950-1980
Dynamax Super 50-69D oil-filled rotating-anode x-ray tube unit, serial no.2304, with 0.3 and 1.6 mm focal spots, made by Machlett X-Ray Tubes (Great Britain) Limited - a division of GEC Medical - Wembley, London, England, 1969-1972.

Dynamax Super 50-69D oil-filled rotating-anode x-ray tube unit

X-rays

1969-1972
Tube of "Corlan Pellets", by Glaxo Laboratories Ltd., English

Tube of "Corlan Pellets", by Glaxo Laboratories Lt

Materia Medica & Pharmacology
Portable radio. Model BEF.2. Square box, leather carrying handle on top, covered in yellowish brown mock crocodile skin. Also has tuning dial, loudspeaker hole, two knobs and MW and LW switch on front. Manufactured by Pifco Radio and Television Corporation of Great Britain Ltd

Pifco Portable Radio

Radio Communication

1935-1950
One of three calotype prints mounted together on a single board , showing three different views of Warren De la Rue's 13-inch reflecting telescope with speculum mirror on a clock driven German type equatorial mounting at his observatory at Cranford, Middlesex. All taken by James Nasmyth and separated from his original album.

Calotype print by Nasmyth of De La Rue's 13-inch reflecting telescope

Astronomy

1858-1864
One of two circular diapositive photographs of the full Moon taken by Warren De La Rue [1858-1868] through a 13-inch reflecting telescope with a speculum mirror and using wet colloidon plates. The instrument was carried on a German type clock-driven equatorial mounting housed in his observatory at Cranford, Middlesex.

Photograph of the Moon taken by Warren De La Rue

Astronomy

1858-1868
One of six calotype prints, showing a 20-inch reflecting telescope with speculum mirror [Nasmyth focus] on a modified altazimuth mounting [see 1933-21] built by James Nasmyth at his Patricroft works, Manchester. Taken by him at of his large house, 'Hammerhurst' near Penshurst in Kent and dated 29th May 1866.

Calotype print of Nasmyth's 20-inch reflecting telescope, 1866

Astronomy

1866
Carton of Pigmentum Sulfarsenol, by Sulfarsenol Laboratories, 1930-1970

Carton of Pigmentum Sulfarsenol, by Sulfarsenol La

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1930-1970
Bottle of "Neo-NaClex" tablets, by Glaxo Laboratories Ltd., English

Bottle of "Neo-NaClex" tablets, by Glaxo Laborator

Materia Medica & Pharmacology
Bottle of "NaClex" tablets, by Glaxo Laboratories Ltd., English

Bottle of "NaClex" tablets, by Glaxo Laboratories

Materia Medica & Pharmacology
Carton of "Efcortelan" ointment, by Glaxo, English, 1965-1968

Carton of "Efcortelan" ointment, by Glaxo, English

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1965-1968
Photograph of glade with silver birches, grass and bracken on a sunny day with trees in full leaf. Taken in Harrow Weald, Middlesex, UK, from an untitled photographic album, created by Agnes Gibson, 1915-1926.

The Commo

Photographs
Photograph of country lane with shrubs and trees either side on a sunny day with trees in full leaf. Taken in Harrow Weald, Middlesex, UK, from an untitled photographic album, created by Agnes Gibson, 1915-1926.

Harrow Weald Common

Photographs
Lower swash-plate housing, with three attached exhaust manifolds, for the Swash-plate axial aero engine, designed by John Wooler and made by the Wooler Motor Cycle Company (1919) Limited, Middlesex, England, 1947

Lower swash-plate housing, with three attached exhaust manifolds, for the Swash-plate axial aero engine

Aircraft Propulsion

1947
Lagonda saloon car, 1957. The first Lagonda car was produced in 1907 by a car manufacturer, based in Staines, Middlesex and founded by the American Wilbur Gunn, who named his company after a river near the town of his birth Springfield, Ohio. By the mid-1930s Lagonda were experiencing financial difficulties and were bought by Alan Good who also employed W O Bentley, former founder of Bentley’s Motors and designer for Rolls-Royce. Lagonda was taken over by David Brown and integrated into Aston Martin in 1947. Brown continued to work with Bentley, and Aston Martin started to produce models with the Lagonda engine and the initials DB, of which this is an example.

Lagonda Saloon Car, 1957

Road Transport

1957
Cartons, 2, of "Supervite" multi-vitamin capsules, by Bristol-Myers Co. Ltd., English, 1955-1970

Cartons, 2, of "Supervite" multi-vitamin capsules,

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1955-1970
Bottle of "Pabyrn" plurigland tablets, by Paines and Byrne Ltd., English

Bottle of "Pabyrn" plurigland tablets, by Paines a

Materia Medica & Pharmacology
Bottle of cartisone acetate tablets, by Glaxo Laboratories, Ltd., English

Bottle of cartisone acetate tablets, by Glaxo Labo

Materia Medica & Pharmacology
Bottle of "Tertroxin" tablets, in original carton, by Glaxo Laboratories, Ltd., English

Bottle of "Tertroxin" tablets, in original carton,

Materia Medica & Pharmacology
Canister of "Viozin" ointment in original carton, by Glaxo Laboratories, Ltd., English

Canister of "Viozin" ointment in original carton,

Materia Medica & Pharmacology
Bottle of "Grisovin-FP" tablets, in original carton, by Galxo Laboratories Ltd., English

Bottle of "Grisovin-FP" tablets, in original carto

Materia Medica & Pharmacology
Bottle of "Cortelan" with instructions in original carton, by Glaxo Laboratories Ltd., English, c.1962

Bottle of "Cortelan" with instructions in original

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1960-1964
Bottle of "Cytacon 50" pills, by Glaxo Laboratories Ltd., English

Bottle of "Cytacon 50" pills, by Glaxo Laboratorie

Materia Medica & Pharmacology
Metal container, empty, used for orbenin, oral penicillin, made by Beecham Research Laboratories, Brentford, 1979-1981

Container used for orbenin oral penicillin

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1979-1981