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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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DESCRIPTION Wax cylinder for Edison Phonograph
MATERIAL Wax
PROVENANCE Private gift in 1971
LOCATION MCC
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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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