Photographs
1863-07
A photograph of dead soldiers on the battlefield at Gettysburg in Pennsylvania, America, by Alexander Gardener (1821-1882) from a negative produced by Timothy H O'Sullivan (1840-1882) in July 1863. This photograph is from an album entitled 'Canada and the United States.1867' by John Downes Rochfort (1825-1885), who toured Canada and America in 1867. The Battle of Gettysburg was one of the bloodiest of the American Civil War, with over 50,000 men killed or wounded during three days of fighting.
Textiles Machinery
1862
Model of Grimston's twine-balling machine, patented in 1860.
Building Construction
2000-1001 BCE
Square pavement brick from Babylonia (Southern Iraq), 2nd millennium BC
Metallurgy
1865
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
Locomotives and Rolling Stock
Steam locomotive, ‘Pet’, 0-4-0ST, 18" gauge works locomotive, London & North Western Railway, built at Crewe Railway Works in 1865, withdrawn in 1929.
Hand and Machine Tools
c. 1865
Shaping machine, made by Joseph Whitworth & Co., Manchester, 1865. Number 298.
Astronomy
Patent model in brass of a pantoscope, invented by Charles Emmanuel of Paris, patented in America [Patent No. 45,954 January 17, 1865] and made by T. Auvray, Paris.
Classical & Medieval Medicine
2000-1350 BCE
Earthenware oil jar, Egyptian, probably New Kingdom, 1580-1350BC
Microscopy (Wellcome)
1863-1866
Binocular microscope by Smith, Beck & Beck, 1866, London, United Kingdom. Serial no. 4260, Microscope presented to Dr. Henry Sutton for his services in the cholera wards of the London Hospital
c. 1862
Woman in dark dress standing in front of window. A photograph of a young woman, possibly Clementina Hawarden (b. 1847), taken by Clementina, Lady Hawarden, in about 1862.
Photographic Technology
Pantascopic camera No 32, 1862. For flat plates. With an A Grubb patent achromatic lens with disc stops. Camera driven by clockwork motor, gearing with rack on inside of tripod head and held in mesh by thick rubber band. Air vane governor. In operation, string wound round tripod head pulled plateholder (missing) past slot in camera back on steel track with folding ends for transport. Spirit level (dry). J R Johnson. Overall: 220 mm x 312 mm x 190 mm, 187 mm (dia. base).
ASlbumen print of a woman standing in front of window, holding hat. A photograph of Isabella Grace Hawarden (b. 1846) taken by her mother, Clementina, Lady Hawarden, in about 1862.
1862-05
A photograph of a heavy gun battery at Yorktown, Virginia, America, by Alexander Gardener (1821-1882) from a negative produced by Wood and Gibson (active 1860s) in May 1862. This photograph is from an album entitled 'Canada and the United States.1867' by John Downes Rochfort (1825-1885), who toured Canada and America in 1867.
Experimental Chemistry
Model of space formulae for Benzene; Marsh's formulae
Human Robotics
‘Autoperipatetikos’ walking doll, by Martin & Runyon, USA, c1862
1864
Photograph entitled 'W H Brookfield', taken by Julia Margaret Cameron in 1864. Albumen contact print from wet collodion negative. This photographic portrait of the Reverend W H Brookfield (1809-1874) forms part of the Herschel Album, created by Cameron for her friend Sir John Herschel (1792-1871). Brookfield was Inspector of Schools and chaplain to Queen Victoria.
Telecommunications
Siemen's direct writing Morse inker, made by Siemens Brothers and Company Limited, England, 1862.
Medical Glass-ware
1862-1863
Bottle, clear glass, empty, for spirit of chloroform, USA, 1862-1863
Bottle, clear glass, for morphine hydrochloride solution, now empty. 210 mm x 75 mm diameter, .46kg. Unknown maker, USA, 1862-1863
Therapeutics
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
A photograph of a young woman, possibly Isabella Hawarden (born 1846), taken by Clementina, Lady Hawarden (1822-1865), in about 1863.
Motive Power
1866
Sectional model of independent 'cabinet' beam engine by Boulton, Watt & Co., comprising a copy in wood of inv. 1858-1.
Two women in front of mirror, one standing, one seated. A photograph of Clementina (b. 1847) and Isabella Hawarden (b. 1846), taken by their mother, Clementina, Lady Hawarden, in about 1862.
ca. 1865
Untitled albumen print on original card mount by an unidentified photographer (possibly John Thomson), ca. 1865. View of Hong Kong Island, looking over Victoria Harbour toward Kawloon and the mainland.
A photograph of men collecting bones on the field of the Battle of Cold Harbor in Virginia, America, by Alexander Gardener (1821-1882) from a negative by John Reekie (active 1860s) in April 1865. This photograph is from an album entitled 'Canada and the United States.1867' by John Downes Rochfort (1825-1885), who toured Canada and America in 1867.
A photograph of dead bodies on Culps Hill on the battlefield at Gettysburg in Pennsylvania, America, taken by an unknown photographer in July 1863. This photograph is from an album entitled 'Canada and the United States.1867' by John Downes Rochfort (1825-1885), who toured Canada and America in 1867.
Heat Engines (non steam)
Two-stroke double-acting single cylinder gas engine, patented by Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir, France, 1860, and made by Reading Iron Works Limited, Reading, Berkshire, England, 1865.
Albumen print by Samuel Bourne, mounted on original card/album page, titled 'Date Palms'. Image shows three men in traditional dress sitting near a copse of palm trees in the Punjab region of northern India, near Lahore, Pakistan. The image was once part of a 19th century album containing views of colonial India and Asia.
Railway Uniform & Costume
c.1865
Railway uniform jacket, North Eastern Railway, Station Master's jacket, c.1865.
Mummy of peregrine falcon, Egyptian, 2000-1001 BC
Wooden case for Binocular microscope, by Smith, Beck & Beck, 1866, London, United Kingdom
1863
Portrait of 'Clementina Maude' by Lady Clementina Hawarden, albumen print, 1863, woman reading seated beside window.
2050-1750 BCE
Babylonian clay liver used for divination, c.2050-1750 BC, copy, 1981
Shell cameo brooch with wet collodian photograph of man on reverse, c.1865 (size 2"x2 1/2" )
Weighing & Measuring
Copper measure of capacity from a Swedish collection of weights & measures.
Fluted roller cutting machine made by Thomas Ryder and Son Ltd, Bolton c.1865
Earthenware inhaler invented by Dr. Nelson in 1865, Crellin 2
Plastics and Modern Materials
Knife with cellulose nitrate (Parkesine) handle, mottled blue and white in colour, wavy profile. Steel-plated blade with four fake hallmarks. Base of blade decorated with moulded leaf decoration.
A photographic portrait of Julia Jackson (1846-1895) taken by Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879) in 1867. Julia Jackson married the barrister Herbert Duckworth who died in 1870. She then married Sir Leslie Stephen the editor of The Dictionary of National Biography. They had four children, including the future Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf. Albumen print.
Mining & Ore Dressing
1877-192
Cylindrical stick of explosive substitute in cream paper wrapper with black printing over cardboard tube, cardboard tube cut away to expose inner cylinder wrapped in waxed brown paper printed with black roundels, outer wrapper printed: ‘SHEATHED’; ‘ONLY FOR BRINGING DOWN COAL’; ‘A1. ROUNKOL’; ‘Alfred Nobel’; Nobel's Explosives Company Limited Trademark; ‘1 7/16” GLASGOW 3oz’; ‘NOT MORE THAN 18ozs’; ‘IN ANY ONE SHOT HOLE’, by Nobel's Explosives Company Limited, Ardeer, Scotland, 1877-1926
Railway Infrastructure
Bridge plaque, London Brighton & South Coast Railway, cast iron, 1865, bearing crest of LB&SCR, Queenstown Road Bridge, Battersea, London. Diameter: x 45 in ( x 1143 mm).
Fragments, of emery composition lathe operated grinding wheel
Emery composition lathe operated grinding wheel
Emery composition lathe operated file and gring wheel
Four fragments, of emery composition lathe operated grinding wheel
