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The contents of the box will give children the chance to compare the considerable differences that occurred in the development of technology, from the Victorian Glass Slide to one of the first Mobile Phones. |
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WAX CYLINDER, 1920's This is a two minute cylinder for use with the Edison Standard Phonograph (see Photo in loan box).
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DECCA NURSERY GRAMOPHONE , 1950's This portable gramophone was made for children in the 1950's, with nursery rhyme transfers painted by Dora Roderick,it plays 78rpm records.
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78rpm RECORDS FOR USE ON THE NURSERY GRAMOPHONE, 1950's HMV Nursery Rhymes "C" "3" |
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GPO 312 TELEPHONE, 1938 This telephone was also made in Red, White and Green, here is the Black version of 300 series, it is very heavy. "D "4" |
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GPO TELEPHONE 746, 1960 Replaced the 300 series style in 1959, this telephone came in many different colours, and also two tone colours too. "E "5" |
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TRIMPHONE TELEPHONE, 1970 This phone showed a completely different design to anything seen before, again like the 700 series phone, it came in lots of different colours, and it had a different sound too, it didn't ring like the others it sort of bleeped. "F" "6" |
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MOTOROLA INDEPENDENT MOBILE PHONE , 1993 Known as 'A Brick' because of its size and weight, the earlier Mobile Phones (1980's) were much bigger than this one, they were used by business people who had to keep them in their cars because the charging unit was installed next to the drivers seat.
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VICTORIAN GLASS SLIDE , 1801 This glass slide is hand painted, as were all the earlier Victorian ones. In later photography, images were recorded onto glass slides and would be shown as black and white, not coloured like this one. "H" "8" |
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KODAK BOX BROWNIE CAMERA No 2, 1930's 'Brownie' was the name of a long-running and extremely popular series of simple and inexpensive cameras made by Kodak, the first Brownie was introduced in 1900 and was made of cardboard, as is this one.
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KODAK BROWNIE 127 , 1950's This was another example of the 'Brownie' series, it is made of Bakelite and was very easy to use.
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PRAKTICA SUPER TL CAMERA, 1978 The Praktica Super TL 3 was introduced in March 1978, showing no fundamental changes when compared to its predecessors. "K" "11" |