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Graphite Electrode

2022

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Arsenical cobalt or skutterudite, from Skutterude, near Modum, Norway

before 1889

Copper ore from the Bell Mine

before 1889

Wrought iron lock (mid 18th century)

Cupriferous sandstone from Schweinkopf

before 1889

Cobalt ore from New Caledonia

before 1889

Sample of Bessemer Steel

1860

three gold-plated cable dies

Demonstration kit of shape memory alloys containing 25 samples in box

1996

Cadmium

Moss copper produced in the white metal

Crop of crystals obtained from the sixth pot, Pattinson's Process

1842-1889

Boiled asphalt from the Pitch Lake, Trinidad

Swedish bar iron sample, with stamped mark

Swedish bar iron sample, with stamped mark

Blast-furnace slag, Newland Furnaces, Ulverston

Specimens illustrating Taylor's process of stamping and assorting puddled balls

Blacksmith’s half-shovel from Portslade forge, Sussex, Britain, 1890-1930

1890-1930

Sample result from Sir James Hall's experiments on the effects of heat and compression

Sample of steel, manufactured by R. Mushet, 1866

Swedish bar iron sample, with stamped mark

Specimen showing corrosion of copper in bilge-water

Nickel cast into the form of a horse-shoe magnet and keeper

Result of experiment on the carburisation of iron by cementation

Iron bar, worked one end, other showing parallel bundles of fibre

Bog iron ore from the moors at Axewallsboda, Sweden

1842-1889

Corngreaves's patent compo burglar proof safe plate

Swedish bar iron sample, with stamped mark

Swedish bar iron sample, with stamped mark

Steel supposed to contain titanium

Piece of flue cinder similar to the last sample

Cryolite from Greenland

Steel from the Dannemora Steel Works, Sheffield

Blast-furnace slag, Newland Furnaces, Ulverston

Swedish bar iron sample, with stamped mark

Materials required for making Devonshire fire-bricks

"Silkstone Gas" coal, near Barnsley, Yorkshire

Spiegeleisen-slag showing crystals

Piece of a quartz vein from the Kron Mine

1842-1889

Steel bar manufactured by the Titanic Steel and Iron Company

Surface of mass of refined iron

Bituminous coal, no.1 Risca Colliery, Newport, Monmouthshire

1843-1889

Massive black haematite

Portion of the hearth of a blast-furnace at the Monkland Iron Works, Calder Bank

Old Muntz metal remelted

Coke from Tertiary lignite of Bovey Tracey

Reduced nodule of clay ironstone from the breast of an iron furnace

Sample of steel, manufactured by R. Mushet, 1866

Swedish bar iron sample, with stamped mark