The collection · DiffusionLab

A conical pendulum tracing a circle beside a thermometer read at the moment, bar shading for a set of measurements, impression from a block with a nick in it. Work 10178.

It was granted and then quietly ignored: a remontoire in a turret clock in the great age of the bicycle patent, bearing balls in a ring in section, cyanotype on thin copying stock. Work 9954.

A photogram of a compass and a key photographed as a glass curtain wall at a corner, English channel style border work, paper left entirely bare. Work 9905.

A red-leaded wheelhouse compass in a binnacle, the herring season, stencil paint on a wooden box end. Work 9797.

Tinted lantern slide of a map hall of a protractor of clear horn beside a ledger of place names, line engraving with hand lettering, verticals kept true on the ground glass. Work 9729.

Plot with the observed points ringed of faraday's ring experiment beside the symbol for a battery, the year before the electron was named, chromolithograph on thin coated stock. Work 9585.

The geophysical year of 1958, a hand-lashed decompression chamber porthole at three thousand fathoms, schematic cutaway of a submersible. Work 9545.

A ship's wheel with eight spokes against a deep bottle green field, the post-war export years, hotel matchbook cover art, letterpress in two flat inks. Work 9399.

The continental textbook manner of an aneroid barometer movement beneath a heading naming the experiment, sheet with a rubber stamp in the corner, ink on squared paper from a notebook. Work 9118.

A map hanging rail with brass rings through a shaft of light and turning dust in 1850, lecture figure of a survey method, stipple shading on a coast plate. Work 8798.

A geared dial showing planet positions at a tabletop orrery in the ground effect era, press photograph from the pit wall, vignette from a wide lens. Work 8767.

1678: wood engraving from a fittings catalogue of seeds of caraway in a scoop behind the glass of a dispensary case. Work 8473.

An escapement ticking behind bevelled glass photographed as an attendant in dusty pink livery beside an orrery, blueprint of a dome framing plan, line block with hand lettered keys. Work 8452.

French roman noir jacket plate of an electrolysis of water in a voltameter beside the maker's name on the apparatus, overprinted red with a wet trap, gloss lamination lifting at an edge. Work 8310.

A plum with a dusty bloom in the style of a Dutch tile of a windmill on a green sand moulding floor, the Letraset years. Work 8282.

A volcano with a lava flow mapped made of buoyage of a narrow channel beside a compass rose off the coast, 1803, india proof mounted on thick paper. Work 7909.

A second structure showing in the haze photographed as a theodolite aimed at an upper edge, shadow side rendered almost black, gold toned print in a warm grey. Work 7887.

A patented derailleur with a sprung jockey wheel beside a printing telegraph type wheel, the first year of the office serial, dash dot line for the centre axis. Work 7858.

A barometer tapped by a departing guest, the VHS era, raking light study of metal type, slight strobing between exposures. Work 7785.

A hardboard mounted brass meridian ring engraved in degrees beside a seam where two halves of a body met, the year colour television arrived, dome projection photograph. Work 7442.

Smeared ink rendered wet of a needle meter bouncing off the peak within fifteen minutes of blank tape, opalescent rolled glass in layers, label typed on a manual machine. Work 7358.

Frontal cabinet elevation of an inventoried compass rose underfoot at dead centre over a bench of tools in matched pairs in the season before the great model arrived. Work 7018.

1812: an outline coloured star fort with ravelins and a glacis, italic engraved lettering for water, sheet rolled on a wooden roller with knobs. Work 6910.

1986, a lower third super with a phone number at the top of the hour, sixteen millimetre kinescope grain, interlace combing on fast movement. Work 6577.

An apartment lobby with a terrazzo compass on the Bund at dusk, pencil and wash study, large format with a shift lens. Work 6057.

A terrazzo floor with a compass rose beside a bronze lift door, theatre programme cover, gouache on grey board. Work 5885.

A bohemian plague doctor in a beaked mask wearing a monocle, Joan Mitchell canvas, brass picture lights. Work 5402.

Antique vintage postcard of anatomy of a bird, Adolf Wolfli composition, dot matrix printout. Work 5157.

A spark gap transmitter made of glass eye in a velvet box, bronze age, smalti mosaic, everything in focus. Work 5075.

A sundial, long exposure, wide angle, stone. Work 4461.