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Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

Great Northern Railway locomotive Stirling Single

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1870

Model of human eye

Anatomy & Pathology

1870

Punched cards for Babbage's Analytical Engine

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1870

Hindu astrolabe

Astronomy

1870

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

Spectroscope

Scientific Instruments & Research

c.1870

York apprentices model train - North Eastern Railway

Railway Models

1870

Magic lantern chromatrope slide

Cinematography

1870

Operation punch cards for Analytical Engine

Computing & Data Processing

C. 1870

Treadle-operated 'Minerva' platen printing press

Printing & Writing

c.1870

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

Elizabeth Beckley

1870-09

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

Clockmakers' Museum

1870

Trial model and spare wheels for Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1870

Magic lantern chromatrope slide: 'A Merry Christmas'

Cinematography

1870

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

Cinematography

1870

Savart's wheel

Acoustics

1870

Concave mirror, 12 inch diameter, in wooden frame,

Optics

1870
Locomotive Cabside Numberplate, brass, Great Western Railway No 571, ex "517" Class 0-4-2T, built by Wolverhampton, 3/1870, withdrawn 2/1936.

Great Western Railway cabside number plate

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1870

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

Cinematography

1870

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE

Variable punch cards for Analytical Engine

Computing & Data Processing

C. 1870

Wharfedale stop-cylinder printing press, 1865-1875

Printing & Writing

1870

Grand model inverted microscope by Nachet et Fils

Microscopes

1870

Compound microscope for opaque objects

Microscopes

1870

Lantern slide showing mice running across a table

Cinematography

1870

Magic lantern slide: Exploding pie

Cinematography

1870

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

Cinematography

1870

Magic lantern slide: Two boys and a cracker

Cinematography

1870

Mummy of a crocodile, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1991-1786 BCE

Letter from Charles Dickens regarding accident on the Great Western Railway

Archive Collections

1870

Operation punch cards for Analytical Engine

Computing & Data Processing

C. 1870

Magic lantern slide: 'The Elephant's Revenge', number 3

Cinematography

1870

Magic lantern slide: Housemaid and chimney sweep

Cinematography

1870

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Harvey & Co Oscillating cylinder steam engine

Motive Power

1870

Gas street lamp

Gas Industry

c.1870

Ladd's Polariscope, with lens and quarter undulations plate, 1870

Optics

1870

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

Elizabeth Beckley

1870

Bellows' cylindrical wages calculator

Mathematics

c. 1870

Wheatstone's Moving Picture Viewer

Cinematography

c. 1870

Magic lantern slide: Man and wet paint

Cinematography

1870

Magic lantern slide: Roast meat attacks a man

Cinematography

1870

Combined compass and clinometer, 1870.

Surveying

1870
Locomotive Cabside Numberplate, brass, Great Western Railway, No 1047, ex "1016" class 0-6-0PT, built Wolverhampton September 1870, withdrawn July 1935.

Great Western Railway cabside plate 1047

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1870
Signalman's chair, North Staffordshire Railway, wooden, high-sided seat painted red, windows in either side, ex Leek Brook Junction South signal box, c1870.

Signalman's chair, North Staffordshire Railway

Railway Furniture

1870

Uterine probe, Playfair, aluminium

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1901-950

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

Ophthalmology

1870

Memorial stele to the doorkeepr Ruma

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE