Measurement Collection (page 3)

CHINESE CLOCKS 1895
Two Chinese clocks. Date: 1895

SPEAKING WATCH (INSIDES)
A watch designed by M.Sivan, which contains a miniature Edison phonograph, allowing it to speak the time, by reading off a rubber disc. Date: 1894

INTERIOR OF POCKET WATCH
The internal workings of a pocket or wrist-watch, showing the complicated positioning of the wheels and catches. The watch is by LeCoutre (Swiss)

Terrestrial and Celestial Globes. Date: circa 1760

Mother and daughter 1895
I COUNT ONLY THE BRIGHT HOURS Mother and daughter are pensive as they inspect the sundial. Date: 1895

MESASURE WEIGHT OF AIR
Bernouillis device for measuring the weight of air Date: 1685

ASTRONOMICAL CLOCK
Sophisticated astronomical clock in Lyon Cathedral Date: 1895

INSTRUMENTS / ROUEN CLOCK
The interior mechanism of an elaborate clock in Rouen Date: 1893

TIME / SUNDIAL
SUNDIAL Sundial on East Bergholt Church in Suffolk. The sundial is 400 years old and reads: Time passes away like a shadow

SUNDIALS / TECHNICAL
Various technical drawings of sundials showing how they work

SUNDIAL / TEMPLE / LONDON
A sundial in the Temple, London

MICROMETERS
A micrometer and its mechanisms, designed for measuring very small distances, objects or angles Date: 1810

Royal Exchange, clock 1844
The Great Clock at the Royal Exchange, London. Date: 1844

Cuckoo Clock
Three children break off from their game of battledore and shuttlecock to admire the cuckoo clock Date: circa 1880

EXACT TIME, FRANCE 1880
The unification and distribution of time using pneumatic chronometers, France - reservoirs of compressed air. Date: 1880

CLOCKWORK MECHANISMS
Various clockwork mechanisms Date: circa 1810

EXACT TIME, FRANCE
The unification and distribution of time using pneumatic chronometers, France Date: 1880

Advert for head measuring band for hats 1880
Mail order service - head-measuring band for hats from Henry Heath, Hat Manufacturer Date: 1880

Measuring equipment, kitchen scales, letter balance and other items for weighing Date: circa 1900

The Royal Mint - Weighing Room Date: circa 1908

London Trade Card - James Simons, Scientiific Instruments
London Trade Card - James Simons, Mathematical, Philosophical and Optical Instruments, at Sir Isaac Newtons Head, corner of Marylebone Street, opposite Glasshouse Street. 18th century

Grandfather Clock C1900
A grandfather clock. Date: circa 1900

Cleve Backster experimenting on plant sensitivity
Grover Cleveland " Cleve" Backster (b.1924), American scientist, best known for his experiments with biocommunication in plant and animal cells

Christmas card in the shape of a barometer. Date: circa 1890s

Pipistrellus sturdeei, Sturdees pipistrelle
A rare specimen of a Bonin pipistrelle, a slightly immature female, preserved in spirit and held by the Natural History Museum

Cockpit of British SE5A biplane on airfield, WW1
View of the cockpit and controls of a British SE5A biplane, one of the main aeroplanes in use by the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War. Seen here on an airfield with other aircraft

MV Britannic - chrome mantel clock in stylised shape of a ship's wheel, engraved MV Britannic. 3.5 inches. Date: 1930s

Christmas card in the form of weight scales -- Try Your Weight, Drop Penny in Slot. Date: circa 1890s

Deep sea diver in diving bell, off The Lizard, Cornwall
Deep sea diver in a diving bell, preparing to descend to examine oil drilling equipment below the oil rig Atlantic I, 38 miles south west of The Lizard, Cornwall. Date: circa 1970s

Fish Sellers - Cairo, Egypt. The taller gentleman on the left (holding the scales) appears to be blind. Date: circa 1910s

Tubular Slide Rule
OTIS KING TUBULAR SLIDE RULE a mechanical calculating devise using addition & subtraction of logarithms to simplify division and multiplication Date: circa 1960

1916 British Army issue telescope with broad arrow, manufactured by T. T. & H. Limited, No. 11801. TEL SIG (Mk.IV), ALSO G.S. together with low and high lenses, in leather case

Advertisement for Waltham pocket watches, Riverside Series. 1914

Christmas card in the shape of a thermometer. Date: circa 1890s

LCC (LFB) Stores and Clothing Depot, Elgin Avenue, W9
London firefighters from the Kensington sub-station (12W) Lonsdale Road School, attending the London County Councils stores and clothing depot in Elgin Avenue, W9, to be kitted out with uniforms

Isaac Newtons Sundial
Sir Isaac Newtons sundial in the Royal Society. Date: late 17th century

Diesel Fuel Injection Pump Testing
A technician tests a distributor fuel injection pump on a Hartridge machine at the CAV Engineering Centre in Acton, London

Stone pillar indicating height above sea level
This stone pillar on the South Downs, near Seaford, East Sussex, England, is an Ordnance Survey bench mark, indicating the exact height above sea level

Egyptian Sundial
A primitive SUN DIAL, still used in Upper Egypt, is simply a pole stuck in the ground, with stones marking the passage of its shadow and the time taken from one to next

GNOMON
The GNOMON of the ancient Babylonians : time is measured by how long it takes for the columns shadow to move from one point to the next

German Astro. Clock
Small astronomical clock made at Munich but now in the Victoria & Albert museum, London

Christmas card in the shape of kitchen scales, with a turkey on one side and a twenty pound weight on the other. Date: circa 1890s

Susi - with a lot of clocks. 1950s

French Railway Alphabet - N for Nivellement (levelling, surveying). 19th century

French Railway Alphabet - K for Kilogrammes (kilograms). 19th century

French Railway Alphabet - J for Jalons (milestones or markers). 19th century

Susi - having her height measured - just over ten inches. 1950s

Which is the tallest, by Hilda Cowham
Two small children attempt to measure their height, though it looks as if the little boy is giving himself some artificial help by standing on a book. Date: 1914

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