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Edison's Original Micro-Tasimeter, 1878

1878

Cine-Kodak Special II Camera

1933-1934

Tasimeter, improved form

1878

'My Country Tis of Thee' phonograph cylinder

Self-published book by amateur physicist with theory based on neutrino strings sent to Hawking

2016

Victor four valve mains/battery operated super-heterodyne radio by the Radio Corporation of America

circa 1963

Wax Cylinder DIctating Machine

1920

Information document 'System for Thalidomide Education and Prescribing Safety'

1999

Measurement Kodascope Projector

Kay Sona-Graph 6061A speech spectrum analyzer, c. 1970

1970

Holophane Lumeter

Weston Cine exposure meter

No 1A Pocket Kodak Junior

1929-1931

Kodak Kodascope Eight Model 60 Universal Projector

Slide rule for voltage and power in decibels with single slider

1953

Fermentation flask model 10 F-05

1980-1989

Booklet: The World's Largest Pipe Organ

circa 1950

Breathalyzer, model 900

1963-1964

Very early Edison carbon filament lamp.

1879

Kodak Business Kodascope Projector

Circular slide rule for surveying calculations: "Cox's stadia computer"

Aneroid altimeter by Wallace & Tiernan Products Inc

1940
Single-phase portable a.c. and d.c. wattmeter, model 310 form 2 serial no.5622, by the Weston Electrical Instrument Corp., N.J., U.S.A., calibration certificate dated 1926

Single-phase portable a.c. and d.c. wattmeter

1926
Harris-Intertype 1100 editing and proofing terminal. It efficiently edits, proofreads and corrects text prior to typesetting, 1973

Harris 1100 Editing Terminal, 1973

1973
Keystone Press Agency photograph titled 'Vivien Leigh's husband seeks divorce'. Caption on back reads: One of the cases to be heard in Hilary Term which opens next Tuesday is the petition of Mr. Herbert Leigh Holman, who is seeking a divorce from Miss Vivien Leigh, the English stage and film actress who played Scarlett O'Hara in the Hollywood production of "Gone With the Wind". The suit is in the undefended list. O.P.S. Picture just received of Vivien Leigh arriving at Newark, N.J. with Laurence Olivier, who is cited as co-respondent. When this picture was taken Miss Leigh announced her betrothal to Laurence Olivier.

Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh arrive in Newark

06 January 1940
A black and white photograph entitled 'Mental Institution, New Jersey, 1924', taken by Lewis Hine. From the Impressions Gallery exhibition, 'The Mind', 1988.

Mental Institution, New Jersey, 1924

1924
Kodak Ektron electronic flash model A. Electronic flash unti for Kodak pocket cameras with flipflash socket. Powered by 2 AA cell batteries.

Kodak Ektron electronic flash model A

1978
Smell Identification Test booklet, part of the kit used in the COVID-19 Human Challenge programme by Imperial College London, the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), hVIVO, and the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, 2020-2021

Smell Identification Test booklet

2020-2021
Premo No.9 bellows folding camera for 5x4" plates. Made by Eastman Kodak. Double extension bellows; Rack and pinion rising front, sliding cross front. Kodak Anastigmat 170mm f7.7 No.76066; Kodak ballbearing shutter 25,50,100 B.T. In case with 4 wooden double dark slides and film pack adaptor.

Premo No 9 Folding Bellows camera

No. 1A Pocket Kodak Junior camera, 1929-1931. N. 5299. self erecting folding camera for 116 rollfilm. Achromatic lens, rotating plate with four apertures 1-4. Kodak No 1 shutter T/I. Brilliant reflecting finder, black body and bellows. Overall (deployed): 206 mm x 95 mm x 160 mm.

No 1A pocket Kodak Junior camera

1929-1931
Colour print by Tim Simmons part of series for Virgin Atlantic Calendar, New Jersey, USA, 1986

Part of series for Virgin Atlantic Calendar

1986
No. 2 Folding cartridge Hawkeye camera Model C in original carton (see 1990-5036/1103/1) 1931. Rollfilm 120 2 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches. With meniscus type achromatic lens, iris diaphragms under the numbers 1-3. Shutter on three point bayonet mount. Sliding focusing with preset stops. Reflecting rotating view finder on base board. Eastman Kodak Company. Red leatherette. No. 280841. Overall (deployed): 165 mm x 87 mm x 128 mm.

Kodak No 2 Folding Cartridge Hawkeye camera, Model C

1931
Kodak Pocket Instamatic 60 camera, No. 453007. Overall: 27 mm x 45 mm x 58 mm.

Kodak Pocket Instamatic 60 camera

1972
Kodak EK160 instant camera. Black with red lettering on front and multi-coloured strap. Overall: 170 mm x 140 mm x 110 mm. A solid-bodied camera for instant photographs on PR10 instant print film packs, fitted with an f12.8, 100mm fixed-focus lens and an electronic shutter - 2secs to 1/300sec. This was the European-sold version of the Kodak Colorburst 50 Instant camera.

Kodak EK160 instant camera

1979
Kodak Instamatic 174 camera. Overall: 70 mm x 108 mm x 52 mm.

Kodak Instamatic 174 camera

Kodak Instamatic X-35 camera. With Kodar lens. Overall: 67 mm x 115 mm x 60 mm.

Kodak Instamatic X-35 camera

1970
Kodak Instamatic 414 camera. With Kodar lens. Overall: 80 mm x 116 mm x 60 mm.

Kodak instamatic 414 camera

1968
Kodak EK10 instant camera. Overall: 140 mm x 180 mm x 140 mm.

Kodak EK10 instant camera

1977
No. 3 Folding Pocket Kodak camera, model C2. For 118 rollfilm 3 1/5 x 4 1/4 inches. Fitted with rapid rectilinear lens, sliding plate with three apertures, rotary built in shutter, T/I, separate releases, rotating brilliant reflecting finder, with hood, sliding focus, - 6. No 72142, 1900-1903. Bone plaque reads: 'Myn Guy De Copal & Co, Amsterdam and Arnheim'. Overall (deployed): 205 mm x 115 mm x 152 mm.

No. 3 Folding Pocket Kodak camera, Model C2

1900-1903
Child's chain stitch Singer model 20 sewing machine first introduced in 1910.

Child's chain stitch Singer model 20 sewing machine first in

1910-1950
No. 4A Folding Kodak Model C camera, by Eastman Kodak. Folding rollfilm camera 126 film. Carl Zeiss Jena Tessar Nr. 150274. F:21cm, f.6.3-45. In compound shutter 1/2/5/10/25/50/100/T/B. Screw rising front sliding cross front. Sliding rack focussing. Brill

No. 4A Folding Kodak Model C camera

1909-1912
A "Pony-Premo" camera by Eastman Kodak for 5x4 plates or cut-film, c. 1910

A "Pony-Premo" camera by Eastman Kodak for 5x4 plates or cut-film

1910
Box containing 100 B-D `Soloshot' Syringes, made to autodestruct after single use, carrying box converts to sharps box to prevent the spread of AIDS, approved by UNICEF and the World Health Organisation for the use in the Expanded Programme on Immunisation. Manufactured by Becton Dickinson & Co, New Jersey, USA and supplied by the UNICEF Supply Division, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1994

B-D `Soloshot' Syringes

Hyatt 1935 type roller bearing split shafting box, for a 2" diameter shaft, no.1458

Hyatt 1935 type roller bearing split shafting box

1935
Bottle of "Nephritin" tablets, by Reed and Carnrick, USA

Bottle of "Nephritin" tablets

Bottle of pineal compound tablets made by G.W. Carnrick Co., USA.

Bottle of pineal compound tablets made by G.W. Carnrick Co

Kodak Ektron electronic flash model B. Electronic flash unit for Kodak pocket cameras with flipflash socket. Powered by 2 AA cell batteries.

Kodak Ektron electronic flash model B

1976
Box for Adaptic bonding agent and accessories, by Johnson and Johnson, 20 Lake Drive, East Windsor, New Jersey, United States, 1973-1978.

Box for Adaptic bonding agent and accessories

1973-1978
Two plug-in hot wire and thermocouple units and one base with socket, made in the USA by Western Electric, and a moving coil milliammeter calibrated for use with the thermocouple units to measure high frequency alternating currents, made by the Weston Electrical Instrument Corp., circa 1925

Two plug-in hot wire and thermocouple units and one base with socket

1922-1939
PACE 231 R analogue computer, manufactured by Electronic Associates Incorporated of New Jersey, USA, in 1959. Complete with box of spares

EAI PACE 231 R analogue computer

1959