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Photograph Album of Elliott Dreyer and Related Instruments Volume 2, 1920s

Inventory Number 13021


Item type
Object
Provenance
Presented by the Marconi Corporation in 2003. Part of the Elliott Archive.
Primary inscriptions
Album name 'Photex Expanding Album'. Volume number label on spine.
Physical material
Paper
Card
Cloth
Object type
Album
Dimensions
Height: 215mm Width: 260mm Depth: 33mm
Inventory No
13021
Accession Number
2003-11

Description

Volume 2 (of 8, the others are 13020, 13022 to 13027). 37 numbered leaves/photos, all naval fire control and related, including 'Wind Dumaresq ...', Battenberg's course indicator, Holland's fuse indicator, electric clock control panel, 'Dr Grey's Gyro Controlled Camera', 'Col Peel's Cypher Machine'; most photographs captioned in manuscript. No dates, list in pocket at back.

Part of a series of 8 albums of photographs of naval fire control and related instruments in research and development stages, 1923-29, together with some photographs of experimental models, prototypes, and laboratory arrangements, and general views of the research laboratories and factory workshops [at Century Works, Lewisham].