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4 ft cast rail, losh splice joints, marked "CB", no provenance, c1810.

section of rail

Railway Infrastructure

1810

Wax cast, male profile

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Birmingham halfpenny token for Bisset's museum and fancy picture factory

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1788-1800

London halfpenny token for grocer, 1795.

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1795

Plaster mould of medallion, "Siege de la Bastille 1789"

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Circular papier mache snuff box, with landscape on

Smoking

1780-1820

Plaster mould, seated man holding book

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Semi-circular washer, for model of Cylinder mould paper-making machine

Papermaking

1809; 1984

Nuremburg microscope with boxfoot, branded "JFF" i

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1780-1820

Token, copper, 28mm diameter. Middlesex halfpenny,

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1796

Nuremburg microscope of Culpeper type, with three

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1781-1820

barometer

Scientific Instruments & Research

c.1820

Token, copper, 28mm diameter. Perth halfpenny, 179

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1797

Electrotherapy equipment

Therapeutics

1780-1810

Compo, lion's head mask

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Token, copper, 33mm diameter. Glasgow Phoenix iron

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1813

Drawing scale, boxwood

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Plaster mould, profile bust

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Six's maximum and minimum thermometer

King George III

1780

Plaster mould, Bacchus in two-horsed chariot

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819
2 Steel brace buckles

2 steel brace buckles

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Base from discharging electrometer

Electricity and Magnetism

1780
Plaster cast, half face of James Watt, 13”

Cast of James Watt (half face)

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Friction pad on insulating stand, for cylinder electrostatic machine

Electricity and Magnetism

1780-1798

Refracting Achromatic Telescope

Optics

1798

Cast mould, Hercules

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Wax cast, male profile

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Combined Watch Pedometer, English, 1795-1805

Surveying

1799-1805

Cast mould of the Roman Emperor Nero

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Cast mould, Demosthenes

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Plaster mould, profile bust

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819
Set of 8 brass nested cup weights dated 1818, from the Castlereagh Collection for Gothenburg (Sweden).

Nested cup weights, brass

Weighing & Measuring

1818

Water Sampler, Ex Arctic Expedition, 1818

Oceanography

1818

Plaster mould, marked "Best"

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

A balloon ascent, c 1790.

Penn-Gaskell Collection

1790-1810

Token, copper, 34mm diameter. Flint lead works pen

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1813

Compo mould of woman holding lyre

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819
Wax anatomical model of female torso and head, showing internal organs, with removable heart, on wooden display cabinet, by Francesco Calenzuoli, Italian, dated 1818

Wax anatomical model of a female showing internal organs, Florence, Italy, 1818

Anatomy & Pathology

1818

hand magnifying glass, decorative (cast?) iron mou

Optics

1790-1810

Phantasmagoria magic lantern

Cinematography

c. 1820

Travelling trunk belonging to Clara Mingo

Miscellanea & Curiosities

pre 1806
Steel hand reamer with a hooked tapered end, by James Watt, Glasgow, Scotland, 1758-1769. Without handle. Used for reaming out flute bodies.

Steel hand reamer with front end turned in

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Bronze prize medal of the Imperial Academy, Genoa,

Wellcome Medals

1808

Crab with contrate gear, in wooden frame

Lifting & Mechanical Handling

c. 1790

Weighing machine, London, England, 1800

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

1800

Crab with contrate gear,in iron frame

Lifting & Mechanical Handling

1820
Safety lamp, Davy, one of the first two to be used in a coal mine, 1815

Davy Safety lamp, used 1815

Mining & Ore Dressing

before 1815

Nipple shields

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

1801

Solar microscope in case

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1780-1800

Compound monocular microscope in case with accesso

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1790-1810