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DESCRIPTION Mechanical Barrel Organ 'Euterpeon'
MANUFACTURER Imhof & Mukle, London, Britain
INVENTOR/DESIGNER Imhof & Mukle
DATE 1851
MATERIAL Wood, varnish, lacquer, steel, brass, copper alloy, glass
DIMENSIONS 2900 x1875 x1060
PROVENANCE Before 1893: Lord Hastings; 1893-1958:Castle Museum, Norwich; Transferred from the Castle Museum, Norwich in 1958
LOCATION MCC
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DESCRIPTION Musical Automaton 'Cherub with Singing Bird'
MANUFACTURER Unknown, possibly French (Blaise Bontems?)
INVENTOR/DESIGNER Pierre-Jaquet Droz (1721-1790) and Henry-Louis Droz(1752-1791), Swiss
DATE c.1890s
MATERIAL Brass, iron, white metal alloy, organic, paint, glass
DIMENSIONS 180x110x220
PROVENANCE L Ch Liddell Collection in 1963
LOCATION MCC
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DESCRIPTION Musical Automaton 'Singing Bird in Cage'
MANUFACTURER Unknown, possibly French
INVENTOR/DESIGNER Pierre-Jaquet Droz (1721-1790) and Henry-Louis Droz (1752-1791), Swiss
DATE c.1890s
MATERIAL Steel, copper alloy, gilt, lacquer, textile, organic
DIMENSIONS 300x280x280
PROVENANCE L Ch Liddell Collection in 1963
LOCATION MCC
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DESCRIPTION Mechanical Organ 'Orchestrion'
MANUFACTURER Imhof & Mukle, London, Britain
INVENTOR/DESIGNER Possibly Martin Blessing (1774-1847), German
DATE c.1879
MATERIAL Wood, varnish, glass, brass, copper alloy, steel, paper, textile, rubber, leather, adhesive
DIMENSIONS 3290x2580x2010
PROVENANCE Gift from Blackpool Tower Co in 1956
LOCATION MCC
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DESCRIPTION No Aerial' Portable Television
MANUFACTURER Baird Television Ltd, Wembley, Britain
INVENTOR/DESIGNER John Logie Baird, 1888-1946, Britain
DATE 1949
MATERIAL Wood, glass, plastic, steel, copper, paint
DIMENSIONS 331x405x469
PROVENANCE Private gift in 1978
LOCATION MCC
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DESCRIPTION Praxinoscope
MANUFACTURER Ernst Plank, Nuremberg, Germany
INVENTOR/DESIGNER Emile Reynald, 1844-1918, French
DATE c.1902
MATERIAL Steel, copper alloy, wood, white metal alloy
DIMENSIONS 280x170x440
PROVENANCE Private gift in 1961
LOCATION Thinktank
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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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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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