Everyday Technology is the traditional category for household or common street items that were engineered and made to technical specifications of the day and thus outside the abilities of your average homeowner and his or her garage tools. There are several hundred items of this nature that have become popular with collectors, most of them produced within the last 50 years. Technology is advancing at a speed incomprehensible to most of us. We have all become accustom to short cycle phases of mass production, obsolescence and replacement. So, first year production series of anything technical are collectable, even if invented some few years ago. Normally included in this category are sewing machines, typewriters, electic fans, radios, televions, cameras, home projectors, kitchen appliances, mechanical and electrical utensils and tools, domestic lamps, watches, clocks, phones, anything electronic, and sometimes power toys and games. We have, by way of preference, placed some of these items in other sections of Engineering and Technology or in Personal Accessories. And we have organized most measuring devices, postal and kitchen scales, watches, writing instruments and clerical items in these respective categories. Also, since we had no appropriate category for some items, patent models for example, we have added, with tongue in check, the highly irregular, even suspicious title of 'Miscellaneous Items' to this section, at least temporarily. To our museum staff's credit though, note that only items of an arguably technical nature or with properties that illustrate an important or interesting historical event or development will be displayed.