The Secret Life of the Home

`Universal' electric food mixer with double-rotary beaters, featuring an open electric motor, hinge to adjust position of mixer, and ability to fit attachments, all metal, by Landers Frary and Clark, USA, 1915-1920

• Universal' electric food mixer and beater, c. 1918.

Standard' portable electric fire with 6 wire-wound fireclay elements, 2 rotary switches and blue-enamelled cast iron surround with hinged trivet at the top to support a kettle or pan, elements patented by C. R. Belling (patent no. 19,054) in 1912, t

• Belling electric fire, 1913.

One of the first Belling 'Modernette' electric cookers with oven, plate warmer, hotplate and griller-boiler, all with exposed coiled-wire heating elements, of compact mild sheet steel construction specifically designed for use in a small house or fla

• Belling 'Modernette' electric cooker, 1919.

Hand-operated 'Vowel Y' washing machine and mangle, by Thomas Bradford, 1897

• The 'Vowel Y' washing machine and wringer, 1897.

Cannon' charcoal heated flat-iron, c. 1850.

• Cannon' charcoal heated flat-iron and bellows, c. 1850.

Stimex' combination gas range no. 8706, of cast iron construction with 7-radiant gas fire, Stimson's patent. The University hot water circulator, lagged oven, grill, three boiling burners and enamel drip tray, by Stimex Gas Stove Co. Ltd., Balham, Lo

• Stimex' combination gas cooking range, fire and water circulator, 1922.

Balance-type siphon-action coffee making machine, comprising porcelain base, central brass pillar with spring-loaded bracket, glass coffee vase with copper lid, white fluted porcelain boiler and glass spirit lamp, European, probably French, c. 1855.

• Balance type coffee making machine, probably French, c. 1855.

Insulated wooden ice box (dry air siphon refrigerator), in which food is chilled by the insertion of ice blocks into an adjoining compartment from which cold air circulates, by the Seeger Refrigerator Co., St. Paul, Minnesota, USA, 1880-1920

• Seeger dry-air siphon refrigerator, c. 1900.

Magnet' electric cooker HO 920, cast iron with enamelled drip tray and nickel-plated hob, with three hotplates, grill, plate warming compartment and oven with enamelled linings and double glass door, with 2-pin socket for additional electrical applia

• GEC 'Magnet' electric cooker, model HO 920, c. 1927.

Electric fire with two Dowsing incandescent sausage-shaped bulbs, with ornate art nouveau metal surround, copper reflector and wooden base with switch at front, by the General Electric Company, English, 1900-1920

• Early electric fire, 1900-1920.