Key Information
Reference code
K/PP107/6/3-4
Title
Auction catalogues, 1926-1992, relating to the Wheatstone Collection of scientific instruments
Date(s)
- 1926 - 1992 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
2 files
Scope and content
Series of Christie's and Sotheby's sale catalogues, inventories and correspondence relating to the disposal of electrical and other apparatus from the Wheatstone collection, with photographs, 1987-1992; the safe storage of artefacts during World War Two, 1939; relating to the design of a replica of Charles Babbage's difference engine, 1958-1971; loan and transfer of items to institutions including the Science Museum, South Kensington, the Queen's University of Belfast, the Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, US.