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Joule's original calorimeter ('paddle-wheel apparatus') used in determining the mechanical equivalent of heat. Copper mixing vessel with vane and spindle

mechanical equivalent of heat apparatus

Heat

1876

The first Wheeler and Wilson sewing machine, 1866.

Textiles Machinery

1866

Small bottle containing catgut ligatures, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1869-1875

Surgery

1869-1875
Industrial 0-4-0ST locomotive "Bauxite", built by Black, Hawthorn & Co Ltd, 1874.

Steam locomotive, 'Bauxite'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Birtac 17.5mm Camera/Projector

Cinematography

1898

Reginald Southey with Skeletons

Photographs

1857-06

Glass copy negative of Leeds Bridge by Louis Le Prince

Cinematography

1933 (1888)

Beck Field camera

Photographic Technology

c. 1889

Plaster death mask of Alexander Humboldt

Art

after 1859
1884-1991, button, badge and medal makers, Birmingham

J R Gaunt and Son Limited

1884 - 1991

Album of cartes-de-visite and cabinet cards by Julia Margaret Cameron, c 1870

Photographs

1860-1880

Twice melted slag from melting the last in the con

Metallurgy

before 1889

Photograph of a radiograph of hand taken by Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, Germany, 1895

Radiomedicine

1895

Two Kineograph Flicker Books

Cinematography

c. 1868

Brown & Sharpe automatic lathe

Hand and Machine Tools

c. 1897

Magic lantern slide: 'The Elephant's Revenge', number 8

Cinematography

1870

Karl Ferdinand Braun's 'Braun tube', 1897

Electronic Components

1897

Crossley Horizontal Single-cylinder Engine

Motive Power

1886

Marey's Camera for Chronophotography

Wellcome (general)

1882

Berliner gramophone

Sound Reproduction

1890

Series of photographs showing phases of movement of a man jumping a hurdle, by Étienne-Jules Marey

Photographs

1888-1896

Early telephone by Alexander Graham Bell, 1877.

Telecommunications

1877

Rigged model of the PS 'Scotia'

Water Transport

1861
Original pilot Bessemer converter from which the first cast of steel was poured at the works of the Barrow Haematite Steel Company Ltd., Barrow-in-Furness, in May 1865

Original pilot Bessemer converter, 1865.

Metallurgy

1865

'Manchester' dynamo, around 1886.

Electricity Supply

c.1886

One Penny Postage and Inland Revenue Stamps

Art

1881

Edwin Chadwick

Maull and Polyblank

1860-1869

Ross Rapid Symmetrical Lens

Photographic Technology

1875-1885

Vertical Steam Engine, 1891

Motive Power

1891

Silk Fabric Dyed with Mauveine of a Pattern Supplied to Queen Victoria

Industrial Chemistry

c. 1860

'Dancing (Fancy)'. Plate 187 from 'Animal Locomotion'

Cinematography

1887
Electromagnetic (e/m) cathode ray tube, by Sir Joseph John Thomson, Cambridge, England, 1896. Part of the J.J. Thomson's original e/m cathode ray tube apparatus, for measuring the velocity of the cathode rays and the ratio of the mass of the carriers to the charge carried by them.

J J Thomson's Electromagnetic Tube used in the Discovery of the Electron, about 1896

Nuclear Physics

1896

Hertzian oscillator, 1894

Radio Communication

1894

'Orthometre', eye measuring device for criminal identification system, Paris, France, 1895

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1895
Holmes magneto electric machine from Souter Point Lighthouse. (without terminals)

Holmes's electricity generator, 1867

Electricity Supply

1867
Working model of Express locomotive engine (Crampton), Northern Railway of France, 1849, scale 3:20.

Working model of Express locomotive engine (Crampton)

Railways

1855

Short's 'Filoscope' Flip Book 'The Train'

Cinematography

1897

Old Building, High Street

Photographs

1868

Magic lantern chromatrope slide

Cinematography

1870
active 1887 -1920s?, manufacturer of leather goods, picnic baskets and silver, London, ENgland

Drew and Sons

1887 - 1935

Romeo and Juliet', 1867

Photographs

1867

'Silvertown Set' telephone with Blake transmitter, 1879-1890

Telecommunications

1879-1880

Quadruple expansion launch steam engine of the condensing type

Marine Engines

1898

Incandescent electric lamp with 'candlestick' cap

Lighting

1879

Alloy of 90 copper and 10 tin. A bronze

Metallurgy

before 1889
1895-1980s, manufacturer of medicinal lozenges, England

Iron Jelloids Company Limited

1895
1882-1960, plastic surgeon, lecturer, Dunedin, New Zealander

Gillies, Sir Harold Delf

1882 - 1960

Casella-Miller Mercury Deep-Sea Thermometer, 1869-1872

Oceanography

1869-1872

Stirn's waistcoat camera and neck cord

Photographic Technology

1886-1896

Whitworth Gear Cutting Machine

Hand and Machine Tools

c. 1854