The Secret Life of the Home

 

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Gas-powered fan heater, 1909-1920.

Ventilating fan with gas-powered hot air engine and tilting fan designed to compete with electrically driven fans, of cast iron construction painted Lincoln green, patent no. 16,043 in 1909, by Brockway and Phillips, Lincolnshire, 1909-1920

 
Viking Husqvarna 8010 sewing machine, 1960s.

Viking Husqvarna 8010 sewing machine, partially sectioned 1968; complete with seam formers and cams so as to form 32 different seam patterns. This partially sectioned semi-automatic sewing machine was made by the Husqvarna Company of Sweden, which ma

 
Belling Rotadine oven/hotplate, 1965.

Belling Rotadine Oven, 1965

 
Sony Compact Cassette Recorder, c 1969.

Sony TC50 Compact Cassette Recorder, c. 1969

 
Belling Compact Super Four electric cooker, c 1970.

Belling Compact Super Four Electric Cooker, c. 1970

 
Morphy Richards electric toaster, 1962.

Morphy Richards Electric Toaster model TOS, 1962

 
Creda New Series electric cooker fitted with Credastat thermostat, 1933.

Creda electric cooker with oven, cast metal hotplate-griller, red-ring hotplate (a later addition); one of the early electric cookers to be fitted with a Credastat automatic oven thermostat patented by the Credenda Conduit Co. Ltd. of Birmingham, wh

 
Micro Perophone radiogramophone, 1932.

Micro Perophone radiogramophone, 1932, restored 1968. 5-valve receiver with 10 inch 78 rpm turntable mounted vertically where speaker would normally be; hinges down for use. Basically a Regentone RG670 radio with Simpson's direct-drive synchronous tu

 
Sony Walkman with headphones, c 1980.

Sony 'Stowaway' stereo cassette-recorder, 1980, model TCS-300. This was one of the earliest cassette players intended to be used while on the move. The small size was made possible by omitting a loudspeaker, listening being via headphones. The equipm

 
Sharp music centre, c 1980.

Vertical-Disc and Audio Cassette Stereo Music Centre Model VZ-3500, Serial No. 20912552, by Sharp Corporation, Japan, c. 1980, with twin 4 Ohm speakers Model CP-350HP