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1270 - Ammeter

Everett Edgcumbe, England

Laboratory Meter, with shunts for 1 Amp, 2 Amps, and 5 Amps DC. The movement is a d'Arsonval, 75 milliVolt Full Scale Deflection (FSD).

1271 - Recording Milliammeter (Murday)

Evershed & Vignoles Ltd, London., England

The unit records current flowing in an external circuit on moving graph paper using an inked pen attached to a galvanometer movement. This model can record two signals simultaneously.

1272 - Volt and Amp panel meters

Nalder Bros & Co. , England

 

1273 - Box of valves and lamps

1274 - Quartz spectrograph negative plates

Hilger ,

1275 - Bleeck glass jar battery

Bleeck Radio Batteries Ltd, Brisbane, Australia

1276 - Bleeck two-cell battery

Bleeck Radio Batteries Ltd, Brisbane, Australia

The Bleeck battery was devised by Wilhelm Bleeck who had a business in Isles Lane Brisbane. By the time it was patented in the late 1920s, and the design had been proved, DC supplies had been designed using the AC mains supply.  The battery of...

1278 - Trough Compass

unknown, Australia

A trough compass is used to accurately align some other instrument to magnetic north.

1282 - TI Calculator 59

Texas Instruments, Usa

This is a programmable scientific pocket calculator. It has a rechargeable battery pack, and red LED readout.

1814 - Glass Projection Slides in Cabinet

A wooden cabinet of 64 drawers for  31/4" glass projection slides. The top four rows accommodate over 2000 slides, each 82 mm (3 1/4") square. There are about 2000 slides covering a wide range of Physics related topics. They were used in...

1815 - 35 mm Projection Slides in Cabinet (1)

One thousand 35 mm slides in glass mounts. Each is numbered but there are no captions. Used in lectures.

1283 - Pump Oil Bottle

Octoil,

1284 - 16mm movie projector

Hanimex,

1285 - Accessories for movie projector 1284

Hanimex,

1286 - Computer (PDP-11) paper tapes

1287 - Box of mercury thermometers

1290 - Wooden stand

1291 - Demonstration moving iron meter

1293 - Standard condenser (mica) 3151

H. Tinsley & Co., England

1294 - Demonstration meters, moving coil (1) and hotwire (1)

1295 - Demonstration moving coil meter

1296 - mV meter in wooden case

Weston,

1297 - Hot wire meter display and dial display

1298 - Watt hour meter type HM

Australian Sangamo ,

1300 - Early HeNe Laser

Perkin Elmer ,

1301 - Ammeter and heavy shunt

Paton,

1302 - Display of vintage lamps

1304 - The Organ of Hearing

Supplied by H B Selby,

This is a dismantlable model of the human ear, with various element numbered.

1305 - Display of CRO tubes

1306 - Display of early transistors

1308 - Travelling wave tube (broken)

1309 - H.F. oscillator for diathermy (breadboard)

1311 - Polaroid Camera

Polaroid,

1312 - NSL 43 measuring machine

NSL,

1313 - Measuring stand

1314 - Lamp housing

UQ Mech. Eng. ,

1315 - Demo moving iron ammeter

W. G. Pye & Co. Cambridge,

1316 - Synchronome Clock (AC movement)

Synchronome,

1317 - Minute Impulse Dial

Synchronome Brisbane and/or Physics Workshop, Australia (1960s?)

A slave dial operated by one-minute impulses, constructed from Synchronome parts. It is possible that it was put together by the Physics Workshop from Synchronome parts. It formed part of a system of 'analyser', 'tape deck', 'clock' and 'camera',...

1318 - Gas meter

Alexander Westminstr Wright & Co. Ltd. ,

1319 - Optical rangefinder

Carl Zeiss, Germany (before 1939)

Metal cylinder of about 10 cm in diameter stands on a tripod. Objective lens with rotating cover at each end and eyepiece at centre. Thumbwheel adjustment at right side. This instrument was used to determine the distance to an object with...

1320 - Schering Bridge

Cambridge Instrument Co.,

1321 - Lid for slidewire potentiometer

1322 - AVO meter 8 Mk II

AVO Ltd., England

1323 - AVO meter 9 Mk II

AVO Ltd., England

1324 - AVO meter 8 Mk II

AVO Ltd., England

1326 - Clockwork recorder drum

Askania,

1327 - CRO tube 3FP7

1328 - Collection of CRO and indicator tubes

1329 - Twyman interferometer for hilger spectrometer

England

1330 - Volt-ammeter Type 4237A

H. Tinsley & Co. Ltd. , England

1331 - Alidade

Hilger & Watts London, England

An alidade is used to transfer a sighting direction onto a map or plan.

1332 - Planimeter 43489

ALLBRIT, England

A planimeter was used to measure  areas on maps or plans or graphs. The perimeter of the area of interest was traced around by the stylus on the tracer bar and the reading on the rolling drum was then scaled to provide the answer in appropriate...

1333 - Variable Transformer

H. W. Sullivan Ltd, London, England

This consists of air wound pancake coils which can be moved to vary mutual inductance.

1334 - Radio receiver and transmitter (hand-held) BC-611-F

(U.S. Army) Galvin Mfg. Corp. , Usa

This is a WW II transmitter receiver, with a range of around 200 metres, suited to platoon and forward scout use by US forces. This unit has been identified incorrectly as a "Walkie Talkie." It was designated the "Handie Talkie," a name that...

1335 - VHF admittance bridge

Wayne Kerr Laboratories , England

This bridge tests admittance of component R L and C at VHF frequencies.

1336 - Griffin Centisecond timer

Triton Electronics/Griffin & George Ltd. ,

664 - Klystron mount and waveguide (gold plate)

657 - Decade Resistance Box

H. W. Sullivan Ltd, London, England

1337 - Decade Resistance Box

J. L. William Scientific Instruments, Australia

1338 - Calibrated attenuator CA 16/1

1339 - Kelvin Wheatstone Bridge

J. L. William Scientific Instruments Melbourne, Australia

1340 - Stroboscope (tuning fork) 120 V.P.S.

Teletype Corp. , Usa (1960s)

Blades on the tynes form a slit that opens 120 time per second allowing stroboscopic viewing of vibrating or rotating objects. Used in the adjustment of teletype machines.

1341 - Variable resistor

1342 - mm wavemeter

Demornay Bonardi ,

1343 - Minute timer

Synchronome, Australia

A timer based on a synchronous electric clock with a mechanism to allow the hand to be returned to the zero position. It seems to have been made by canibalising a mains electric clock and a small alarm clock.

1344 - Laboratory Timer (with key)

W. G. Pye & Co. Cambridge,

1345 - Loose coupled inductor

H. W. Sullivan Ltd, London,

1346 - Double eye piece for miscroscope

F. Koristka, Italy

A dual eyepiece for a microscope that allows two persons, such as a student and an instructor, to view the image simultaneously. The latter is able to move a pointer within the field.

1348 - Box of photographic plates for electron microscope

Itford ,

1349 - Electronic printing calculator EL-1182

Sharp,

1350 - Magnetron

Raytheon,

1351 - Magnetron magnet

Cinaudograph Corp.,

1352 - Chemcorder

TPS,

1816 - 35 mm Projection Slides in Cabinet (2)

A collection of 35 mm slides, mainly in cardboard mounts, used in lectures in the 1970s.
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