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DESCRIPTION Stencil Rotary Duplicator (Mimeograph), Serial No D4054
MANUFACTURER Ellams, Britain
INVENTOR/DESIGNER David Gestetner (1854-1939), British
DATE c.1950
MATERIAL Steel, white metal alloy, plastic, paint, print, rubber
DIMENSIONS 360x900x425
PROVENANCE Gift from Institute of Plumbing in 1981
LOCATION MCC
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DESCRIPTION Salter 'Visible' Standard typewriter
MANUFACTURER Salter & Co, West Bromwich, Britain
INVENTOR/DESIGNER Christopher Latham Scholes (1819-1890), American
DATE c.1913
MATERIAL Steel, wood, print, rubber, paint, textile
DIMENSIONS 255x360x398
PROVENANCE Gift from Ideal Wire Mattress Co., Hay Mill in 1976.
LOCATION MCC
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DESCRIPTION Short-Wave Radio
MANUFACTURER Stratton & Co Ltd, Birmingham, Britain
INVENTOR/DESIGNER Oliver Lodge, 1851-1940, British
DATE 1926
MATERIAL Wood, glass, steel, copper, copper alloy, white metal alloy plastic, paint, textile, transfer
DIMENSIONS 485x430x270
PROVENANCE Gift from Stratton & Co Ltd
LOCATION Thinktank
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DESCRIPTION Sony WM2 Walkman
MANUFACTURER Sony Corporation, Japan
DATE c.1980
MATERIAL Plastic, white metal alloy, textile, print
DIMENSIONS 120x90x50
PROVENANCE Private gift, 1986
LOCATION MCC
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DESCRIPTION Stereo Juke Box 'Lyric'
MANUFACTURER Wurlitzer, Germany
DATE c.1961
MATERIAL plastic, glass, white metal alloy, copper alloy, steel, paper, paint
DIMENSIONS 260x820x678
PROVENANCE Private purchase in 1992.
LOCATION Thinktank
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DESCRIPTION Telephone
MANUFACTURER L M Ericsson Manufacturer Company, Beeston, Britain
INVENTOR/DESIGNER Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), Scottish
DATE c.1910
MATERIAL Wood, steel, nickel, copper alloy, plastic
DIMENSIONS 325x180x123
PROVENANCE Gift from Gates & Hardy Ltd. in 1961
LOCATION MCC
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DESCRIPTION Watt's Office Copying Machine, numbered 4120
MANUFACTURER James Watt & Co, Birmingham, Britain
INVENTOR/DESIGNER James Watt (1736 -1819), British
DATE c.1815
MATERIAL Wood, iron, copper alloy, paint
DIMENSIONS 370x395x300
PROVENANCE Transferred from Boulton & Watt Room at Birmingham Central Library in 1951
LOCATION Thinktank
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Communication forms the largest part of the Science & Industry Collection. It includes more than six thousand tools and devices which have been invented for writing and printing, recording and transmitting texts, sound and images, etc.
The collection comes from the 18th-20th centuries, and reflects the rapid and turbulent development of various techniques, from calligraphic writing to recent electronic technologies.
The collection includes - the first copying machine invented by James Watt; the praxinoscope - a table toy of the 19th century, the predecessor of the cinema; typewriters and cameras; Thomas A. Edison's early Dictophone; the Marconi-Stille audio recorder used at the BBC during the Second World War; the outstanding collection of writing equipment formed by Charles Thomas; various musical boxes and players, and much more
These objects can be seen on display at Thinktank, and also at MCC by appointment.
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