Warwick clockwork exposure and developing meter.
Category
Photographic technology
Date
circa 1905
Materials
Wood, Metal
Measurements
109 x 140 x 46 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1525120
Summary
Warwick clockwork exposure and developing meter. Metal dial set in polished wood box surround with moveable metal arm to set the timing required. A metal arm protrudes from a slit in the left side of the box with the word "start" engraved on it. Protruding from the rear panel is a metal key to wind up the clockwork mechanism. On the rear panel is a label with printed instructions for using the meter. Other markings; On the dial; "The Warwick Exposure and Developing Meter". On the label beneath the instructions; "This alarm is useful in Laboratories, Works, and all operations where a short and accurate time period has to be observed. It may be set to act from 10 seconds to 20 minutes, also by connecting one side of an electric current to key at back and other side to case, the descending lever may complete a circuit and give an alarm at a distance". "Manufactured by Warwick's Time-Stamp Co. 134, Highbury Hill, London N. Proprietors of the "Facile" Time Stamp as supplied to H.M.G. Departments, the L.C.C. etc."
Provenance
Part of the Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986