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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

Treadle-operated 'Minerva' platen printing press

Printing & Writing

c.1870

telephone cable marker

Telecommunications

c1870

Operation punch cards for Analytical Engine

Computing & Data Processing

C. 1870

Hindu astrolabe

Astronomy

1870

Spectroscope

Scientific Instruments & Research

c.1870

Punched cards for Babbage's Analytical Engine

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1870

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

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1870

York apprentices model train - North Eastern Railway

Railway Models

1870

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

Magic lantern chromatrope slide: 'A Merry Christmas'

Cinematography

1870

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

Clockmakers

1870

Savart's wheel

Acoustics

1870

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE

Magic lantern chromatrope slide

Cinematography

1870

Magic lantern slide: Dancing elephant

Cinematography

1870

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

Cinematography

1870

Wharfedale stop-cylinder printing press, 1865-1875

Printing & Writing

1870

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

Astronomy

1870

Concave mirror, 12 inch diameter, in wooden frame,

Optics

1870

Hong Kong Guangzhou Merchants & Compradore

Photographs

ca. 1870

Model of sectioned eye

Anatomy & Pathology

1870

Lathe by J. Whitworth & Co, c. 1870

Hand and Machine Tools

c.1870

Magic lantern slide: Roast meat attacks a man

Cinematography

1870

Combined compass and clinometer, 1870.

Surveying

1870

Letter from Charles Dickens regarding accident on the Great Western Railway

Archive Collections

1870

Gas street lamp

Gas Industry

c.1870

Four tuning forks, with mahogany case, for showing Lissajou's figures

Acoustics

1870

Galton's pantograph for reducing the tracings of s

Mathematics

c.1870

Wheatstone's Moving Picture Viewer

Cinematography

c. 1870

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

Building Construction

2000-1001 BCE
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

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Harvey & Co Oscillating cylinder steam engine

Motive Power

1870

Dissected Cube puzzle

Mathematics

1870

Nicol prism, in cylindrical brass mount

Optics

1870
Locomotive numberplate, cabside, oval, brass, Great Northern Railway No.132, ex F2 Class 0-4-2 WT, built Doncaster 1870, scrapped June 1908.

Brass numberplate No.132, Great Northern Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

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
Locomotive nameplate, brass, "Hector", ex London & North Western Railway "Newton" class 2-4-0 No 304 (London Midland & Scottish Railway No 5035), built 9/1870, withdrawn 7/1928.

Nameplate, London & North Western Railway - "Hector"

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1870

Magic lantern slide: Man and wet paint

Cinematography

1870

Length of red silk ribbon worn as a belt to promot

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-120

Minimum thermometer with "slipped in" scale (Hick'

Heat

1870

Welsh Mine iron ore, calcined before smelting, fro

Metallurgy

1870
Locomotive wheel casting pattern, Great Northern Railway, for 4-2-2 locomotive No 1, Stirling Single.

Stirling single locomotive wheel casting pattern, Great Northern Railway

Tools of the Trade & Personal Accessories

1870

Lantern slide showing mice running across a table

Cinematography

1870

Compound monocular microscope with radial substage

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1880-1870

Medicine chest

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1870

Magic lantern slide: Woman with crinoline frame

Cinematography

1870