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Bottle, clear glass, empty, for tincture of rhubar

Medical Glass-ware

1862-1863

Model, of Crispin's patent 1860 screw propellor

Marine Engines

1861

long-beam chemical balance

Scientific Instruments & Research

c.1855

Passport issued to A.W. Blomfield in 1855

Wellcome (general)

1855

Aural scoop, silver, gilt handle missing, hallmark

Surgery

1855

Silver wand

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

1855

Photoheliograph of the Sun

Astronomy

1861

Snow Harris's wind gauge

Meteorology

1858

Brass yard bed stamped "County of Surrey, A Division, 1855", with case

Weighing & Measuring

1855

Early form of Amsler planimeter c. 1856, engraved

Mathematics

1854-1856

Parkesine plaque with moulded figures of Zeus and nymphs

Plastics and Modern Materials

c. 1862

Medal, Bradley Wood Fete, 28-29 June 1855. White metal, 36 mm diameter. Obverse showing South Devon Railway locomotive. Reverse, scene of building; Legend, Teignmouth & Dawlish Infirmary, Established 1848, supported by voluntary contributions.

Medal, Bradley Wood Fete

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1855

Box for Baily's bronze line yard

Weighing & Measuring

1855

Fourteen microphotographs by J

Photographic Technology

1860

'Double sensitive' steam engine boiler pressure gauge, John Inshaw 1856 patent

Motive Power

1856

Experimental steam engine boiler pressure gauge, John Inshaw 1856 patent

Motive Power

1856

Freestanding clock, London Tilbury & Southend Railway, London Midland & Scottish Railway Clock No 13630, from Gravesend Pier, installed c1854, later moved to Tilbury and finally to Barking, withdrawn 1961, square tower with seats round base, painted yellow and green.

Gravesend clock, London, Tilbury & Southend Railway

Railway Timepieces

1854

Experimental uranium print of seaside

Photographs

August 1858

Pince-Nez Glasses

Ophthalmology

1860

James Cocker's patent decimal gauge (micrometer) from his original patent of 1857 no. 1680, modified by Messrs. Joseph Whitworth and Co. to gauge 0 to 2 inches reading to thousandths of an inch (Whitworth Works no. 119)

James Cocker's patent decimal gauge (micrometer) from his or

Industrial Metrology

earliest 1857

Electrical whirl

Electricity and Magnetism

1862

Prototype brass model of beam for equal-arm balance

Weighing & Measuring

c. 1857

Persian Gulf cable, 1863: engraved label and five

Telecommunications

1863

Alloy medal to commemorate a hospital, unsigned, R

Wellcome Medals

1860

Bowl, child's alphabet, ceramic, white glazed Staffordshire pottery, with hand-coloured transfer vignette of North Staffordshire Railway 2-2-2 locomotive emerging from tunnel, c1860.

Child's ceramic alphabet bowl, North Staffordshire Railway

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1860

Cinder first run off, from the charcoal finery at

Metallurgy

1859

"Blue metal" of characteristic colour, from the Ha

Metallurgy

1861

Refined iron from the Bromford Iron Works, 1856

Metallurgy

1856

Calcined ore, previous to pulverisation. Dee Bank

Metallurgy

1859

Part of an ingot of puddled steel made at the Ebbw

Metallurgy

1859

Varley's globe vacuum lightning protector, 1861

Telecommunications

1861

Specimen of 1861 cable recovered in September 1871

Telecommunications

1861

Longcase clock by Isaac Jackson, Wylam, ordered by Robert Stephenson in 1857 and installed in the General Manager's Office at R. Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works, Newcastle, 14.12.1858

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

Railway Timepieces

1857

Varley's lightning protector, 1856

Telecommunications

1856

Three German cylindrical iron weights: 25-Kilos, 10-Kilos and 1-Demi-Kilo, 1859

Weighing & Measuring

1859

Gas cooker with hotplate comprising three concentric aerated drilled-tube burners and a false oven, by Alfred King, Liverpool, Lancashire, England, 1859. This cooker was designed by Alfred King for installation in 148 Piccadilly, London, the home of Lionel Nathan Rothschild.

Gas cooker designed by Alfred King

Domestic Appliances

1859

Glazed frame for letter from Philip Reis

Telecommunications

1863

Swedish capacity measure, copper

Weighing & Measuring

1862

Speed indicator, Ramsbottom's velocimeter, 1860, mounted on plinth, consists of a closed glass tube half filled with oil which revolves on a vertical axis and is driven by a band from the trailing axle of the locomotive.

ramsbottom speed indicator

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1860

Piece of Belgian retort after use in smelting the

Metallurgy

1859

Knife with cellulose nitrate (Parkesine) handle, m

Plastics and Modern Materials

1862

Portable microscope lamp, c.1860, in metal case

Microscopes

1860

Untitled

Photographs

ca. 1860

Simla, from 'Oakover'

Photographs

ca, 1863

Serrin's gravity fed and electromagnetically controlled arc lamp

Lighting

after 1857

Power loom shuttle, 1858-1862

Textiles Machinery

1858-1862

Cast iron cholera grave marker, with an inscription (rusted) "J J 1862" and a lion's head at the head end.

grave marker

Public Health & Hygiene

c. 1862

Bed of metal furnace when making metal containing

Metallurgy

1863

Arsenical ore ready for roasting. From the Arsenic

Metallurgy

1858

Teneriffe

Photographs

1856