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DESCRIPTION BTH 'Beehive' Refrigerator
MANUFACTURER British Thomson Houston, Coventry, Britain
INVENTOR/DESIGNER Abbč Audiffren, French
DATE c.1930
MATERIAL Steel, chrome, white metal alloy, enamel, rubber, plastic, paint
DIMENSIONS 1640x590x610
PROVENANCE Private gift in 1978
LOCATION Thinktank
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DESCRIPTION Electric Cooker 'Magnet'
MANUFACTURER General Electric Co Ltd (G.E.C.), Britain
INVENTOR/DESIGNER William S Hadaway, American
DATE 1933
MATERIAL Iron, copper, enamel, wood, plastic, paint
DIMENSIONS 1070x550x475
PROVENANCE Private gift in 1983
LOCATION Thinktank
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DESCRIPTION Pearl' Gas Water Heater
MANUFACTURER Parkinson Stove & Co, Birmingham, Britain
INVENTOR/DESIGNER Edwin Ruud, Norwegian
DATE c.1920
MATERIAL Copper, copper alloy, iron, paint, lacquer, rubber
DIMENSIONS 585x330x200
PROVENANCE Gift from West Midlands Gas Works, Kidderminster, in 1962
LOCATION Thinktank
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DESCRIPTION Sewing Machine 'Shakespear', Serial No 20339
MANUFACTURER Royal Sewing Machine Company, Birmingham, Britain
INVENTOR/DESIGNER Thomas Shakespear and George Illston, British
DATE c.1875
MATERIAL Iron, steel, transfer, wood, gilt, paint, textile, copper alloy
DIMENSIONS 290x340x177
PROVENANCE Private gift in 1974
LOCATION Thinktank
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DESCRIPTION Singer 'Medium' Treadle Sewing Machine, Serial No 3012752 & 321752
MANUFACTURER The Singer Manufacturing Co, Glasgow
INVENTOR/DESIGNER Isaac Merritt Singer, 1811-1875, American
DATE 1879
MATERIAL Steel, cast iron, paint, wood
DIMENSIONS 1020x810x430
PROVENANCE Private gift in 1962
LOCATION MCC
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DESCRIPTION Electric Vacuum Cleaner 'Goblin'
MANUFACTURER British Vacuum Cleaner Company Ltd (Goblin), London, Britain
INVENTOR/DESIGNER Hubert Cecil Booth, 1871-1955, British
DATE 1930s
MATERIAL Steel, white metal alloy, plastic, textile, rubber, enamel, paint
DIMENSIONS 257x645x370
PROVENANCE Gift from St Joseph Guest House in1974
LOCATION Thinktank
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DESCRIPTION Electric Vacuum Cleaner Hoover Junior
MANUFACTURER Hoover Company, London
INVENTOR/DESIGNER James Murray Spangler, American
DATE c.1937
MATERIAL Steel, rubber, textile
DIMENSIONS 1120x360x230
PROVENANCE Private gift in 1973
LOCATION MCC
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Domestic appliances in the Science and Industry collection originate mainly from the 19th and 20th centuries. They illustrate impressive changes in all areas of daily life.
Some objects, like the gas pipes used by William Murdock to light his house, reflect early efforts and achievements in this sphere. But it was almost a century later, with the introduction of public supplies of gas and then electricity that devices invented to ease housework greatly influenced and irreversibly changed people’s everyday life.
The collection clearly corresponds to early recollections of many people. The artefacts are mainly familiar, and these are easily associated with the lives of our parents and grandparents, or our own childhood. Some ordinary objects, like the Singer sewing machine, became world famous and unmistakably recognisable signs of historical era.
These objects can be seen on display at Thinktank, and also at MCC by appointment.
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