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Wire Wire

Portion of knitted silver wire, one of a group of forty four fragments of brooches and rings including two globular ends of large brooches and a portion of knitted silver wire, from Skaill

Wire Wire

Fragment of gold wire bent into a loop and cut off, 986 - 990, found in 1951 with a hoard of 10th century Anglo-Saxon coins at Iona Abbey, Iona, Argyll, Scotland

Wire rope Wire rope

Specimen of steel wire rope, six strands wound on a hemp core, by Bruntons Wire Rope Works, Musselburgh

Wireless receiver, telegraph Wireless receiver, telegraph

Wireless telegraph receiver, mark III tuner, fitted with Litz wound coupling coil, two stud-top switches, etc

Wireless receiving valve Wireless receiving valve

Wireless receiving valve, R type, marked B, made by Moorhead Laboratories of San Francisco, early 20th century

Wireless receiving valve Wireless receiving valve

Wireless receiving valve, R type, made by Marconi-Osram Valve Co., 1919 - 1929

Wireless receiver Wireless receiver

Marconiphone wireless receiver, type V2, wavelengths 245 - 530, with two valves,

Wireless valve Wireless valve

Métal wireless "R" valve, glass tube with amber glass innner mount and brass cap, G-D-E-R etched on tube, made by Compagnie des Lampes, Ivry, France,

Wireless valve Wireless valve

Wireless 'R' valve, with grid spiral welded to supporting rod, No. C 10079 on glass bulb, Marconi-Osram Valve Co.,

Wireless valve Wireless valve

Wireless 'R' valve, with grid spiral welded to supporting rod, No. C 10078 on glass bulb, Marconi-Osram Valve Co.

Wireless valve Wireless valve

Wireless 'L.S.3 E' valve, No. 21884, Marconi-Osram Valve Co.,

Wireless valve Wireless valve

Wireless 'R' valve, heavily gettered, bulb showing repair patches on opposite sides, unknown make,

Wireless valve Wireless valve

Wireless 'R' valve, cylindrical pattern, probably No. 31895, Marconi-Osram Valve Co. Ltd.

Wire rope Wire rope

Special cross laid Kilindo non-rotating rock cutter rope, breaking load approximately 100 tons, one of a group of thirteen specimens of wire ropes, by Bruntons Wire Rope Works, Musselburgh

Wireless set, screened grid valve Wireless set, screened grid valve

Burndept Screened Four wireless set, No. C 34343, in a mahogany case, an example of the first Burndept wireless set to incorporate the screened grid valve

Wireless receiver, crystal Wireless receiver, crystal

Crystal wireless receiver, type C form A made by the British Thomson-Houston Co. of Coventry, with variometer tuning, two switchable crystal detectors, a condenser, and in a polished wood box

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