Apparatus Collection (page 8)

The volunteer life brigade at work : life saving at sea
The late storm: the volunteer life brigade at work. Rocket life-saving apparatus kept ready for use whereby a rocket is fired to throw a line over the ship in trouble from the shore

Dr. Vigourouxs electro-diagnostic at La Salpetriere
Doctor Vigourouxs electro-diagnostic at La Salpetriere

Auxiliary Fire Service gas mask training, WW2
Women of the Auxiliary Fire Service undergoing gas mask training during the Second World War. Date: 1940

Firefighter undergoing ergometer test
Fireman undergoing an ergometer test whilst wearing full gear, including breathing apparatus at Lambeth headquarters. Date: 1950s

Taking thread: Sound-Waves on a Cord 1922
Mr. W F Croll, who holds the parent, of a method of recording and reproducing sound-waves by means of a cellulose thread instead of by the generally known disc or cylinder record

Deep-sea diving suit, for salvage work on HMS M1 subrine
German deep-sea diving suit brought from Kiel for examining the lost submarine M1. On 21 November 1925, while on an exercise in the English Channel

Advert for Lancaster & Sons bellows cameras 1886
Advertisement for 19th century bellows cameras with mahogany frames and apparatus. 1886

Radiation Apparatus
A man demonstrates a modern ultra violet radiation treatment machine. Date: early 1930s

Home Perm 1920S
A young woman gives herself a home perm in front of her bedroom dressing table, using some rather dangerous looking electric apparatus - lets hope its earthed! Date: late 1920s

Lavoisier and Apparatus
ANTOINE-LAURENT LAVOISIER French chemist, depicted with various items of scientific apparatus. Date: 1743 - 1794

Submarine training at HMS Vernon - Escape Chamber
Submarine training at HMS Vernon, a shore establishment or stone frigate of the Royal Navy at Chatham Dockyard, Kent. Waiting on the surface after a successful escape. Date: late 1930s

Submarine training at HMS Vernon, a shore establishment or stone frigate of the Royal Navy at Chatham Dockyard, Kent. Operating the flooding gear in the escape chamber of a Submarine. Date: late 1930s

A Representation of M Blanchards Balloon and Apparatus
A Representation of M. Blanchards Balloon and Apparatus. 14 September 1784

A Fokker FVIIb-3m equipped with special flotation apparatus. This aircraft was used for the first service of the Pan American Airways System between Key West, Florida, and Havana, Cuba

Diving appliances; breathing apparatus. eng IMechE Procs. 1882. pl. 26 Date: 1882

Hand screwing apparatus

Apparatus for re-boring cylinders in their places

Surfacing lathe with dividing motion and apparatus for cutting wheels. Height of centres 30 inches

A timekeeper and his apparatus: an official of the American Automobile Contest Board

Apparatus from laboratory on board H. M. S. Challenger
Drawing made during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876) funded by the British Government for scientific purposes

A Collection of Goniometers
A collection of antique scientific instruments known as goniometers held within the Natural History Museum. They were used for measuring interfacial angles of very small crystals

Brewster Angle Meter
Placing a gem inside a Brewster Angle Meter. This instrument was introduced in 1999. This instrument can be used to find the refractive index (RI) of gems, which can help with identification

Goniometer
For measuring face angles to check symmetry and aid identification

Wireless Class Aboard Training Ship Mount Edgcumbe
Barefoot boys, in naval-style uniforms, attend a wireless class aboard the training ship Mount Edgcumbe. One boy stands in front of a wireless apparatus wearing headphones. Date: 1916

Marconi Bruni
GUGLIELMO MARCONI the Italian inventor with communications apparatus Date: 1874 - 1937

LCC-LFB enclosed pump at Southwark HQ
The Brigade introduced these enclosed pumps in 1935, designed for the Brigade by its then Chief Officer, C C B Morris. The pump also carried breathing apparatus sets for three of its crew

Firefighters at the scene of an industrial fire
Firefighters at the scene of a fire at the Rainbow Industrial Estate, SW London

Breathing apparatus control point at scene of fire
Breathing apparatus control point at the scene of a fire

Firefighters in Emergency Tender, Southwark HQ
Two firefighters in breathing equipment inside an Emergency Tender at Southwark Headquarters, London

A firefighter puts on his Proto breathing apparatus

Firefighters with one of the first emergency tenders
Firefighters and a van with their equipment laid out. Four of the firefighters are wearing proto-breathing apparatus. In 1929 the Brigade introduced the first enclosed emergency tender to respond to

Firefighter wearing breathing apparatus
A firefighter wearing breathing apparatus at a fire

Firefighter in breathing apparatus working at fire
Firefighter in breathing apparatus working at a fire in London SW1

Firefighters in breathing apparatus at the scene of a fire in Isleworth, West London

Firefighters wearing breathing apparatus at a fire in Battersea, SW London

LCC-LFB - Self-contained smoke helmets (BA sets)
Self-contained smoke helmets (BA sets) were introduced for use in an atmosphere dense with smoke and dangerous fumes. A special motor appliance fitted for smoke helmet work was based at Southwark HQ

LCC-LFB Grand Hotel fire, Trafalgar Square W1
Firefighters in breathing apparatus attend a fire in the Grand Hotel, on the corner of Trafalgar Square and Northumberland Avenue

GLC LFB Breathing apparatus communications set
Battery operated communications equipment for use with compressed air breathing apparatus sets. Microphones are fitted into the specially adapted full face masks

LCC-LFB New enclosed London fire engine
The new enclosed breathing apparatus and ladder carrying fire engine supplied to the London Fire Brigade by Dennis, based on an LFB design

GLC-LFB Breathing Apparatus Coach (BAC)
The mid 1970s saw a number of innovative appliance designs come into play as the London Fire Brigade adapted to an ever changing and more Health and Safety conscious working environment

GLC-LFB Breathing apparatus cylinder van
The GLC-LFB was created on 1 April 1965. A series of photos was commissioned of each type of fire engine, either within or absorbed into the enlarged London Fire Brigade

LCC-LFB Breathing apparatus entry control point
At larger fires more detailed entry control procedures were put in force to control the entry, and more importantly, the exit of firefighters in breathing apparatus

LCC-LFB Lambeths emergency tender and crew
A London A class emergency tender with built-in electrical generator, in use from the early 1950s until the 1960s. Showing Lambeth fire stations (D61)

LCC-LFB Southwarks Emergency Tender with lights
Southwarks Emergency Tender with lights. By the mid-1920s emergency tenders were developing into far more than just a carrier of firefighters with breathing apparatus

LCC-LFB Clerkenwell Emergency Tender
Clerkenwells emergency tender with its fire crew in Proto breathing apparatus. Clerkenwell fire station was built in 1870

LCC-LFB Clerkenwells emergency tender
Emergency tender belonging to Clerkenwell fire station. The ET was primarily a means of providing firefighters with breathing apparatus and illumination at incidents

Diagram of a fire brigade respirator

LCC-LFB Daylight Rubber Co fire, Farringdon Road
A major fire at the Daylight Rubber Co warehouse in Farringdon Road required many pumps and a turntable ladder to quell the blaze, involving rubber goods

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