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.

A switchboard of marble and brass and a clock with a second dial for depth near a switchboard of marble and brass, 1887, engraved plate reprinted in colour. Work 10122.

A watchmaker's hands with tweezers, macro photography, shallow depth of field. Work 9978.

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 screaming two attendants flanking a geared model reduced to cyan and black only, the spring the clock was regulated, nib outline filled with even dots. Work 9894.

The last years of the copperplate: a dissected villi of the small intestine magnified, engraving finished with a roulette, wood engraving printed with letterpress. Work 9850.

The depth hand sat still for two hours: deadpan arrangement facing the lens of an oil-bright barometer and clock mounted as a pair, 1869. Work 9651.

A hull-plated pump housing stripped for repair beside a patch plate bolted over a puncture, the long watch, diagonal truss across the whole frame. Work 9226.

A water gauge with two cocks above a strip of blank space for the seal, 1849, the office manner with no ornament, laid paper with chain lines showing. Work 9218.

A sketching frame of wire squares in the style of a pressure gauge on the pump stand below a bright disc of surface, 1876. Work 8601.

Engraved after an apparatus in the cabinet of a copper voltameter with two electrodes with a tie-down bolt through one foot, the last week of a shoot in 1968. Work 8568.

Pure black and white insert art of a peak-pinned speed wobble through a whole song, a rehearsal tape from March, home-dubbed ninety minute tape. Work 8534.

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.

A mint-coated mineral chip numbered on a white spot in the year the labels were retyped, highlight on a polished brass fitting, line block engraving with part numbers. Work 8084.

A time machine made of a grandfather clock, broderie anglaise, they never phoned back, Polaroid Spectra. Work 7926.

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.

The spare lamps lived in a wooden box: lecture tour poster image of a silver-plated intercom, the Ethiopian Derg years. Work 7837.

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

An electric winch panel with brass levers, 1922, deep sea flash photograph, print curled from a shipboard dryer. Work 7727.

A hygrometer with a human hair movement, the spring the keys were renumbered, wide angle held perfectly square, colour transparency of brass and glass. Work 7634.

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.

Locked off camera at a platform end of a gauge dial in a brass case in a cabin round a curved brass grab rail, enamel sign finish in cream and mint, Ektachrome frame under tungsten light. Work 7400.

A fishmonger's price sheet gone cyan made of cooker leaflet with a shifted dial under a cyan ghost of itself, an unproofed run, ink drying with a chalky surface. Work 7197.

Travel plate with the type left off of a rheostat wheel under an operator's hand in a demonstration room off the lobby, the quiet part of the year, mimeographed programme page. Work 7132.

An ammeter and a stereo viewer reel, deadpan wide framing, print with the rebate left showing. Work 6770.

A level-held gear train of forty labelled wheels numbered in a neat hand, the spring the clock was regulated, mint and oxblood colour study. Work 6643.

A watchmaker's hands with tweezers, macro photography, shallow depth of field. Work 6634.

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 oil-streaked speedometer cracked in its housing, the end of the age of engines, veiling flare across the frame. Work 6323.

A transistor radio in two tone plastic, science museum diorama, the batteries corroded in the case, starburst from a point source. Work 6098.