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Great Northern Railway locomotive Stirling Single

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1870

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

Croll Testimonial silver gilt fountain, Parcel-gilt Victorian silver rosewater fountain designed as a table centrepiece

Temporary Exhibitions

1870

Spectroscope

Scientific Instruments & Research

c.1870

York apprentices model train - North Eastern Railway

Railway Models

1870

Magic lantern chromatrope slide

Cinematography

1870

Punched cards for Babbage's Analytical Engine

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1870

Wharfedale stop-cylinder printing press, 1865-1875

Printing & Writing

1870

Hindu astrolabe

Astronomy

1870

Treadle-operated 'Minerva' platen printing press

Printing & Writing

c.1870

Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Magic lanern slide: Skipping Clowns

Cinematography

c. 1870
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

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

Mummy of a crocodile, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Slotting machine, made by Joseph Whitworth & Co.

Hand and Machine Tools

c.1870

Magic lantern slide: Cat

Cinematography

c. 1870

Magic lantern slide: Dismembered clown

Cinematography

1870

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE

Magic lantern chromatrope slide: 'A Merry Christmas'

Cinematography

1870

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

Cinematography

1870

Letter from Charles Dickens regarding accident on the Great Western Railway

Archive Collections

1870

Harvey & Co Oscillating cylinder steam engine

Motive Power

1870

Gas street lamp

Gas Industry

c.1870

Siphon recorder, 1870

Telecommunications

1870

Diapositives of photographs of sunspots taken by Elizabeth Beckley with the Kew Photoheliograph

Elizabeth Beckley

1870

Magic lantern slide: Man and wet paint

Cinematography

1870

Magic lantern slide: Roast meat attacks a man

Cinematography

1870

Model of human eye

Anatomy & Pathology

1870

Lantern slide showing mice running across a table

Cinematography

1870

Combined compass and clinometer, 1870.

Surveying

1870

Magic lantern slide: 'The Elephant's Revenge', number 12

Cinematography

1870

Magic lantern slide: Exploding pie

Cinematography

1870

Magic lantern slide: Two boys and a cracker

Cinematography

1870

Magic lantern slide: Dancer on a tightrope

Cinematography

1870

Magic lantern slide: Woman with crinoline frame

Cinematography

1870

Magic lantern slide: 'The Elephant's Revenge', number 6

Cinematography

1870

Magic lantern slide: 'The Elephant's Revenge', number 4

Cinematography

1870

Beale type self-illuminating ophthalmoscope, London, England, 1870

Ophthalmology

1870

Stone slab with seven holes for cosmetic ointments, Egypt, 1991-1786 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1991-1786 BCE

Display case with samples of cinchona succiruba bark, England, 1870

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1870

Magic lantern slide: Dancing elephant

Cinematography

1870

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

Building Construction

2000-1001 BCE

Nicol prism, in cylindrical brass mount

Optics

1870

Magic lantern slide: Jumping tribesmen

Cinematography

1870

Colour print showing the corona around the Sun during a solar eclipse, 1870.

Astronomy

1870
Bell, London Chatham & Dover Railway and South Eastern & Chatham Railway and Southern Railway, embossed around the base 'Warner & Sons London 1870', number 23, removed from Sydenham Hill Signal Box in 1953.

Railway bell, Warner & Sons

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1870
Siphon recorder, designed by William Thomson (Baron Kelvin) made by James White & Company, Glasgow, Scotland, 1870. Used by the Eastern Telegraph Co in Egypt, and later in India

Siphon recorder, 1870

Telecommunications

1870

Lathe, made by J. Whitworth &

Hand and Machine Tools

c.1870

Magic lantern slide: Man in nightcap

Cinematography

1870