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Engraved Copper Plate for Map Printing, 1866

Printing & Writing

1866

Barktrometer for measuring the density of tanning liquor

Experimental Chemistry

1876
Rail section, Midland Railway Settle & Carlisle pattern 81 lb bullhead, laid Thackley Tunnel 1873, finally scrapped 1901 at 43½ lb weight, mounted on original profile plate on mahogany panel with engraved brass plaque recording history, c1901.

Rail section, Midland Railway

Railway Infrastructure

1873

Part of sow from lead smelting in the Rachette Fur

Metallurgy

1873

Seismochronograph designed by Arnold von Lasaulx, c. 1876

Geophysics

1876

Magic lantern slide: Dismembered clown

Cinematography

1870

Magic lantern slide: Dancing elephant

Cinematography

1870

Antiseptic machine, England, 1879

Surgery

1879

Piece of the original ingot of R.F. Mushet's self-hardening steel,1868

Metallurgy

1868
Original Remington Arms lock-stitch sewing machine head: the 'Empire' model of 1870, by the Remington Arms Company, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 1870.

Remington Arms Company lock-stitch sewing machine, 1870.

Textiles Machinery

1870

Square pavement brick from Babylonia (Southern Iraq), 2nd millennium BC.

Building Construction

2000-1001 BCE
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.

Patent model in brass of a pantoscope, invented by

Astronomy

1865
Hyperbolic paraboloid; a skew quadrilateral turning upon four hinges with parallel axes or pins; the lengths of the strings remain unaltered during deformation.

Hyperbolic Paraboloid string surface model

Mathematics

1872

Plaster model of a surface generated by a semi-circle, 1876.

Mathematics

1876

Seal and stamp - Newhaven Gas and Coke Company

Gas Industry

1879

Sea water sampler used on the HMS Porcupine Expedition, 1869

Oceanography

1869

Inmate at a loom

Photographs

1871

Lobster, Crabs, etc

Photographs

1868

The Capitol, Washington

Photographs

1867

Rocks in the Rapids

Photographs

c. 1871

Fishing with Cormorants

Photographs

c. 1871

Confederate defensive works around Atlanta

Photographs

1866

King Street

Photographs

1868

Beggars

Photographs

c. 1871

Close, Nos 97 and 103 Saltmarket

Photographs

1868

Part of Lower Bridge

Photographs

c. 1871

Making Charpie

Photographs

1868

Close, No 115 High Street

Photographs

1868

Greenhouse study

Photographs

1868

Pheasants and Pigeons

Photographs

1868

Close, No 46 Saltmarket

Photographs

1868

Road to the Plantation

Photographs

c. 1871

Close, No 118 High Street

Photographs

1868

Photographic brooch

Photographs

c. 1880

Beam compasses, graduated, metal beam 17 1/2" long

Mathematics

1876

Maximum Mercury and Minimum Alcohol Thermometer by J.J. Griffin & Sons, 1880

Heat

1880

Nicol prism, in cylindrical brass mount

Optics

1870

Richard Owen

Photographs

1878

Dr Schliemann

Photographs

1877

Portrait of a prisoner

Photographs

1873
Brass model of power loom (scale 1:4) with improved tappet plates, patentee Bennet Woodcroft, England, 1870-1880.

Brass model of power loom (scale 1:4)

Textiles Machinery

1870-1880
French-nail microphone used by D.E. Hughes together with one small gauze-covered box, probably made by David Edward Hughes, England, 1875-1880

Three-nail microphone, 1875-1880

Telecommunications

1875-1880

Snow's face mask for chloroform anaesthesia

Anaesthesiology

1865-1875

Prison record sheet

Photographs

1873

Sir Joseph William Bazalgette

Photographs

1877

Jules Verne

Photographs

1877

Anthony Trollope

Photographs

1878

Magic lantern slide showing scene from 'Alice's Adventures or The Queen of Hearts and the Stolen Tarts'

Cinematography

1876

Dorcas lock-stitch domestic sewing machine

Textiles Machinery

1868

View of Hong Kong Island toward Kowloon

Photographs

ca. 1865