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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

Nicol prism, in cylindrical brass mount

Optics

1870

Siphon recorder, 1870

Telecommunications

1870

Magic lantern slide: Men alongside a river

Cinematography

1870

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

Astronomy

1870

Magic lantern slide: Policeman with lantern

Cinematography

c. 1870

Operation punch cards for Analytical Engine

Computing & Data Processing

C. 1870

Lathe by J. Whitworth & Co, c. 1870

Hand and Machine Tools

c.1870

Magic lantern slide: Housemaid and chimney sweep

Cinematography

1870

Bellows' cylindrical wages calculator

Mathematics

c. 1870

Magic lantern slide: Man in nightcap

Cinematography

1870

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

Cinematography

1870

Minimum thermometer with "slipped in" scale (Hick'

Heat

1870

Glazed porcelain mercury trough, marked "Koenigl P

Ceramics

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

Cylindrical stick of explosive substitute in cream paper wrapper with black printing over cardboard tube

Mining & Ore Dressing

1877-192
Barrel magnet for 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

barrel magnet for siphon recorder, 1870

Telecommunications

1870

Bellows' cylindrical wages calculator

Mathematics

c. 1870

Obstetrical forceps

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

831-1870

Welsh Mine iron ore, calcined before smelting, fro

Metallurgy

1870

Black scale-like crystals on the surface of a furn

Metallurgy

1870

Wash tub made by Thomas Bradfo

Water Supply & Sanitation

c.1870

Length of red silk ribbon worn as a belt to promot

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-120

Medicine chest

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1870

Compound monocular microscope with radial substage

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1880-1870

Siemen's polarized double recorder, 1870

Telecommunications

1870
Engineer's combination rule, c. 1870 includes protractor, depth gauge, rule and slide rule function. This combination rule includes a protractor on the jointed hinge and a brass depth gauge sliding section and a sliding logarithmic scale which could be used as a slide rule type calculator.

Engineer's combination rule, c. 1870 includes prot

Industrial Metrology

1870

Hong Kong Guangzhou Merchants & Compradore

Photographs

ca. 1870

Crystallised sharp slag, Morfa Silver Works, 1870

Metallurgy

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

Appunn's 'treble' Tonometer

Acoustics

1870

Wheatstone type photometer, in brass box, six cork discs with silvered beads, 1870

Optics

1870
2 veterinary lancets, steel and tortoiseshell, by Arnold and Sons of London, 1866 to 1900, 'C R Anderson', in silver case, made in Birmingham, 1870

2 veterinary lancets, steel and tortoiseshell, by

Veterinary Medicine

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

Trade label for Joseph Casartelli

Scientific Instruments & Research

1870

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

Cinematography

1870

Magic lanern slide: Skipping Clowns

Cinematography

c. 1870

Cast iron plaque from the head of a Spanish hospital bed

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

1870

Portable field microscope

Microscopes

1870
Paper dispenser for 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

paper dispenser for Siphon recorder, 1870

Telecommunications

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

Apparatus for producing Newton's Rings, by William

Optics

1870

Syren

Acoustics

1870

vapour tension computer

Meteorology

1870

Oxide from near the charging door of the silver bl

Metallurgy

1870

Dissected Cube puzzle

Mathematics

1870

Bedding from doll's perambulator, 1870

Road Transport

c.1870

Interrupter for induction coil (early form)

Electricity and Magnetism

1870

Gas street lamp

Gas Industry

c.1870