Visit Guide
SINCLAIR MEASURING INSTRUMENTS
On this display we have:
- The PDM35 Sinclair digital multimeter.
- The PPFM200 frequency meter.
- We highlight the digital multimeter that belonged to Enrico Tedeschi’s collection*, and that we acquired a few years ago and that may be an unknown multimeter variant.
- The Micronta Digital Multimeter, developed by Sinclair Radionics for Radio Shack (Tandy Corporation), in 1978.
- A very rare temperature gauge of the time and that already had the Thandar branding.
Enrico Tedeschi is an Italian man that moved to England and was a big collector of all things Sinclair and Marconi. Somehow, he was the first person who tried to create an entire museum dedicated to Sinclair (and Marconi), in Brighton, October 1993. Enrico also deserves great merit for having saved the Marconi collection: it was due to a campaign he led that the collection was not auctioned off and is nowadays a part of Oxford University’s acquis, in England.
Sir Clive like his work so much that he even surprised Enrico by having a thank you note on the cover of the local newspaper, thanking Enrico for his book.
Enrico Tedeschi’s legacy and life work are being carried on and, in some way, shape or form, we have tried to pay homage to him through our own work. In an interview, Enrico said something we can see ourselves in: “Collecting should not be hoarding the largest possible number of artifacts, but rather serve mainly to investigate and understand why, who, and when he invented and developed something, and the social impact that invention had in the lives of millions of people. Collecting should be a way of learning, growing and self-improving, and not just an hobby or investment.”