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Magic lantern slide showing street scene

Cinematography

c. 1860

Chestnut tree in bloom

Photographs

c. 1855

Boats on a river

Photographs

c. 1855

Geissler tube, one of five.

Electricity and Magnetism

1860
Bell, Stockton & Darlington Railway, embossed 'C&G Mears Founders London 1855, Stockton & Darlington Railway'.

Bell, Stockton & Darlington Railway

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1855

Federal Battery No1...

Photographs

1862-05

Wood's embossing apparatus for use by blind people

Printing & Writing

1857

Jerusalem prise du Mont Scopus

Photographs

1857

Tombeau de David

Photographs

1857

Halifax

Photographs

1860

Fountains Abbey

Photographs

c. 1855

Eglise du St Sepulchre Façade

Photographs

1857

A street in Delhi

Photographs

1858

Woman Against a Sunlit Wall

Photographs

c. 1862

Model of a London omnibus

Road Transport

1855

verification hole punch

Computing & Data Processing

1855

Weaving power loom shuttle

Textiles Machinery

1858-1862
80x115mm black rectangular union case. Maker John Smith (check card). Trade paper inside says 'Improved Patent Union Case' Formal design front and back. Diamond shaped pattern in centre. Plain red plush lining. Plain oblong gilt mat with rounded top. Patterned pinchbeck frame. Contains beautifully tinted carte-de-visite by J. Hawke, 53 Union Street, Stonehouse, Devon. Portrait of lady standing in crinoline, dress in front of painted backdrop.

Oblong Union Case, Possibly For Ferrotypes

Photographs

c. 1860
Oil painting, A Street Scene in Manchester by Thomas Armstrong, 1861.

A Street Scene in Manchester

Textile Industry

1861

Magic lantern slide showing The Moon

Cinematography

c. 1860

Stone bridge

Photographs

c. 1855

experimental dye

Scientific Instruments & Research

c. 1862

Universal model microscope by Smith, Beck & Beck,

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1856-1860

Liebreich type student ophthalmoscope, 1856-1860

Ophthalmology

1856-1860

Keyway Slotting Machine

Hand and Machine Tools

1856

Lord Elgin

Photographs

1860

Fane's Horse

Photographs

c. 1860

Three lancets, steel and tortoiseshell, by S. Maw

Therapeutics

1857

Grey pig-iron, Newland Furnaces, Ulverston, Lancas

Metallurgy

1856

Steel pens tipped with brass, made at Birmingham,

Metallurgy

1854

Furniture plaque of dark brown Bois Durci

Plastics and Modern Materials

1855

Scene from 'The Heart of Stone', Royal Polytechnic Institution lantern slide

Cinematography

c. 1860

Gettysburg - 3rd Day, Culps Hill...

Photographs

1863-07

1:4 scale model of Reeve's patent combined seed

Agricultural Engineering

1854

Cosmorama Stereoscope, English, 1854-1865

Optics

1854-1857

Lord Kelvin's mirror galvanometer with lamp and stand, 1858.

Telecommunications

1858

Parkesine handled cut throat razor in leathette box.

Plastics and Modern Materials

c. 1862

Microphotograph 'The Lord's Pr

Photographic Technology

c. 1855

Chateau de David

Photographs

1857

Conwy Castle

Photographs

c. 1855

Camp du 97th Regiment Anglais

Photographs

1855

Early Morning Surprise

Photographs

1860

Lorgnettes, Bologna, Italy, 1857

Ophthalmology

1857

Model of a traction engine

Road Transport

1859-1862
Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases, dynamo with steel magnet and brass and ebony terminals to apply to patient, all in polished wood case dated, unsigned, Europe, 1862

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

Spratt’s Patent Copper Lightning Conductor

Geophysics

1860

Two girls by a window

Photographs

c. 1860

Silver lancet case, empty

Therapeutics

1854

Brass hand crank model of John Ericsson's three bladed duplex screw propellor

Marine Engines

1856

Aluminium prepared from cryolite by means of sodiu

Metallurgy

1858