Instruments Collection (page 27)

Santorios Balance C16
Santorio (b.1561) weighed himself for 24 hour periods and proved that weight gain or loss varied according to the type of food consumed

Lady Plays Mandolin
The entertainer Farfalla accompanies herself on the mandolin at the Scala, Copenhagen, Denmark

Young Girl with Violin
Girl with her violin

Accordeon / Musto
A group of musicians composed of drummer & three accordians playing an accompaniment for Morris Dancers outside a village pub

Girl with Guitar
A young girl plays a rather odd- shaped guitar

Lady Plays to Boy
An old lady plays the piano beautifully for an enthralled boy. (Thackerays " The Newcomes" )

Harrisons Fourth
Harrisons number 4 timekeeper or chronometer for finding longitude

Time / Hourglass
A pulpit hourglass

Music / Instruments / Bells
The Great Bell of the Kremlin, made in 1737 for the Tsarina Anna, but it cracked and was never used

Gent at Parlour Piano
The parlour piano - a gentleman obliges

CLOCK
Swedish Wall Clocks

Science / Instruments
Collision balls, used to demonstrate the laws of impact

PORPORA (1686 - 1766)
NICOLA ANTONIO GIACINTO Porpora Italian composer and teacher with his pupils

A theodolite, used for surveying

Buonannis Microscope
Buonannis horizontal microscope

Hippocrates / Sesone / Coin
HIPPOCRATES Greek medical

Hippocrates / Thevet / 1584
HIPPOCRATES Greek medical

U-Boat Torpedo Room
In the engine-room of a German U-boat

U-Boat Motor Room
In the motor-room of a German U-boat

Making Jews Harps 1932
A woman and two children making Jews Harps, a primitive musical instrument, in the Steyr valley, Austria. They are bought by a Birmingham firm for export to Aborigines

Hertels Microscope
Hertels microscope

Marshalls Microscope
John Marshalls new invented Double Microscope for viewing the Circulation of the Blood

Theodolite for Survey
A dapper surveyor and his fine theodolite

Surgical Instruments
Variety of surgical instruments

Pascals Calculator
PASCAL Pascals calculating machine

Roman Scales & Weights
Roman scales and weights

1884 Greenaway Calendar
An 1884 calendar by Kate Greenaway

GRANDFATHERs CLOCK 1860
A grandfather sits next to a grandfather clock in a cosy room

Grandfather Clock C1883
A little girl watches the pendulum of an ornate grandfather clock

Milan Electric Clock
An electric clock at Milan railway station

Spectroscope
A stars light refracted through a prism indicates its chemical composition

Spectroscope 1882

Ignitron Device C1936
The Westinghouse " Ignitron" tube was designed to register fast-moving objects

Weighing the Earth C1936
A gravity-measuring device which can measure the weight of the earth

Campanis Microscope
Campanis microscope

Bakers Mounted Lens
Bakers mounted lens microscope

Louse Thru Hooke M / Scope
A flea and louse observed with Hookes microscope

A Young Clockmaker
Young Fred is the fourth in line as watch-repairer at the Fred W.Jensen shop. His Great- Grandfather proudly shows his aptitude and skill with clocks to all his customers!

Violin, Old & New Ways
The old way of playing the fiddle and the new way! Note the type of bow and how the violin is held by the 18th century violinist

Terrestrial Globe
Terrestrial globe

Toy Musical Instruments
Toy musical instruments, including drums and horns

Racial / Greece / Musicians
Three Greek people, two with musical instruments, one with a basket of fruit on her head

German Musicians 1520
A group of German musicians perform on a wide variety of instruments to provide music for dancers : lute, bagpipes, clarinet, trombone, flute, drum, monochord are featured

1629 Lute Player
A page from the French royal court plays the lute, dressed in the picturesque attire of the day and armed with a huge and unwieldy sword

Music in a Garden
A Dutchman and his lady friend make sweet music together - she lays down her viol while he plays the lute, and he has other instruments with which to entertain her

Gent Plays Harpsichord
A gentleman plays a piece from one of Purcells operas, arranged for the harpsichord

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