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

Oceanography

1869-1872

Whitworth Gear Cutting Machine

Hand and Machine Tools

c. 1854

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE

Medicine chest used by David Livingstone, Europe, 1860-1873

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1861-1873

Stirn's waistcoat camera and neck cord

Photographic Technology

1886-1896
Edison Kinetophone (or Phonokinetoscope); Kinetoscope with cylinder phonograph, an early attempt at creating a sound-film system; early motion picture exhibition device, designed for films to be viewed individually through an aperture on the top of the cabinet.

Edison Kinetophone (or Phonokinetoscope)

Cinematography

1894

Speigeleisen from Rudolf, Wolff and Co.

Metallurgy

before 1889

Mechanical tilting bucket rain-gauge, 1890

Meteorology

1890

Ericsson Caloric Engine, c. 1869

Heat Engines (non steam)

1855-1874
c.1880 -1992, stationers; scientific equipment manufacturer, Manchester, England

A G Thornton Limited

1880 - 1992

Saint's sewing machine, 1874.

Textiles Machinery

1874

Coradi planimeter and map, 1886.

Mathematics

1886

Working model, of a pair of single horizontal cylinder engines, with steam jacketed cylinders as fitted on HMS 'Monarch' (1868)

Marine Engines

1868

Double focus X-ray tube

Radiomedicine

1896

Tri-unial magic lantern

Photographic Technology

1880

Magic lantern projector with s

Photographic Technology

c.1890
Lever escapement pocket watch beating tenths of a second, signed on the back plate 'Wm Williams 32 Rock St Bury. No 19289.' and on the dial 'PATENT No 4762 MARCH 26TH 1890 by WILLM. WILLIAMS BURY', in sterling silver case hallmarked at Chester in 1890, with winding square and hand adjusting square under the back cover. The watch has hour, minute, and small seconds hands, plus a centre seconds hand rotating once every two seconds. A stop mechanism acting directly on the balance wheel and operated by a slide on the side of the case allows use as a stopwatch.

Pocket watch and stop watch

Time Measurement

1890

Allison's differential binaural stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1859-1865

Reis telephone, 1863.

Telecommunications

1863

Photographic negative of electrical discharge

Photography

1892

Whole rigged model of the clipper ship 'Stonehouse'

Water Transport

1866 (original) 1871 (model); 1906 (rigging modified)

Edison "Home" phonograph, Model A with accessories, 1898

Sound Reproduction

1898

Tonsil guillotine, Paris, France, 1866-1870

Surgery

1866-1870

Willans Three-crank High Speed Steam Engine, 1884

Motive Power

1884

Modern Vivex colour print made from negatives of Clerk Maxwell

Photographs

c. 1930s (original 1861)

Original Porro telescope (Prism Monocular) by J. G

Optics

1865-1875

Part of 35mm film Sea Waves at Dover (Rough Sea at Dover)

Cinematography

1895
Steam locomotive and tender, North Eastern Railway, 4-4-0 No.1621, designed by Wilson Worsdell, built at Gateshead in 1893, withdrawn in 1945.

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 1621

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1893

Specimen of artificial silk

Textiles Machinery

1883

Fort Mex, Alexandria

Photographs

1882-11-12
active 1868-1968, optical instrument maker; clock maker, Manchester, England

Thomas Armstrong and Brother

1868 - 1968
1878-1969, mathematical & scientific instrument maker, Manchester & London, England

J Halden and Company Limited

1878 - 1969
1896-1947, scientific instrument and radio manufacturer, Cambridge

W G Pye and Company Limited

1896 - 1947

Isaac Newton

Godfrey Kneller

1863

Kineograph 'Windmill' Flicker Book

Cinematography

c. 1868

Watkin type clinometer, British, 1895

Surveying

1895

Crossley Brothers Atmospheric Gas Engine

Motive Power

1874

Actinograph

Photographic Technology

1888-1895

Ereiniog prepared peat, from Portmadoc, and specimen of charcoal

Metallurgy

before 1875

Shaping Attachment for a Combination Machine (lath

Hand and Machine Tools

c. 1872

Recording rain gauge by Negretti and Zambra

Meteorology

1897

Shand Mason horse-drawn steam fire engine, "1894 S

Firefighting

1889-1894

Photograph of positive electrical discharge

Photographs

1892

Three-wheeled motor car

Road Transport

1888

Hyperbolic Paraboloid String Surface Model

Mathematics

1872

Le Praxinoscope

Cinematography

1877

Portrait bust of Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1861

Syringe used by Joseph Lister in his experiments on the souring of milk, United Kingdom, 1871-1878

Microbiology

1871-1878

The Island Pagoda

Photographs

c. 1871
Photograph of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), taken by Isaac Roberts using a twin telescope (20-inch reflector & 7-inch refractor) by Howard Grubb of Dublin. Taken with an exposure of 4 hours on 29th December 1888 at his observatory & home at Maghull, near Liverpool.

Photograph of the Andromeda Galaxy

Astronomy

1888