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Babbage's Analytical Engine, 1834-1871. (Trial model)

Computing & Data Processing

1871

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

Road Transport

c.1871

A steam hammer at work

James Hall Nasmyth

1871

lithographic printing press

Printing & Writing

1871

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

Printing & Writing

1871

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

The Island Pagoda

Photographs

c. 1871

The Altar of Heaven

Photographs

c. 1871

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE

Part of Lower Bridge

Photographs

c. 1871

Whole rigged model of the clipper ship 'Stonehouse'

Water Transport

1866 (original) 1871 (model); 1906 (rigging modified)

Coolies

Photographs

c. 1871

Grover and Baker two-thread chain-stitch sewing machine, 1871.

Textiles Machinery

1871

Mill furnace slag showing iron olivine crystals, f

Metallurgy

1871

Inmate at a loom

Photographs

1871
1871- active 1938, travel agents, London

Dean and Dawson Limited

1871

Ross 'Wheel of Life' magic lantern slide

Cinematography

1871

Field Women

Photographs

c. 1871

Fishing with Cormorants

Photographs

c. 1871

Road to the Plantation

Photographs

c. 1871

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

Building Construction

2000-1001 BCE

Ross 'Wheel of Life' magic lantern slide

Cinematography

c. 1871

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Result of experiments on the production of silicid

Metallurgy

1871

Original Abbe apertometer, "made 1871"

Microscopes

1871

Sir Robert Christison's Cistern Thermometer, 1871

Oceanography

1871
Grout 'Tension' bicycle, 1871. This could easily be mistaken as simply an early example of James Stanley’s ordinary bicycle (aka the penny-farthing), however this has a significant difference. The large wheel uses the W. H. J. Grout patent of 1870 making this a ‘Tension’ bicycle. The tension of the spokes can be adjusted by tightening or loosening the screws at the end of the spokes, improving the rider’s control of the bicycle. The tension patent was also used in tricycles which boasted the capability of easily riding up hills while other riders with non-tension tricycles had to dismount and push.

'Tension' bicycle

Road Transport

1871

A Farm House

Photographs

c. 1871

Length of red silk ribbon worn as a belt to promot

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-120
Ceremonial trowel, London Brighton & South Coast Railway, silver with bone handle, engraved "Presented to J P Knight Esq, General Manager, LB&SCRy by Fred Furniss "Contractor" on fixing Key Stone in completion of the Eastbourne & Hastings Junction railway, 18th July 1871".

eastbourne & hastings junction railway ceremonial trowel

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1871

The Lovers' Leap

Photographs

c. 1871

Foochow Church

Photographs

c. 1871
Notice, North Eastern Railway, Instructions to Pointsmen, on wooden board, 1871, chessboard carved on back.

Station sign, North Eastern Railway - Instructions to Pointsmen

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1871

Uterine probe, Playfair, aluminium

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1901-950

A Small Temple at Ku-Shan

Photographs

c. 1871

Yuen Fu Rapid

Photographs

c. 1871

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1991-1786 BCE

Mummy of a crocodile, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Clay from the bottom of a copper furnace, showing

Metallurgy

1871

Regulus from the first fusion of Chilian regulus,

Metallurgy

1871

Rocks in the Rapids

Photographs

c. 1871

Beggars

Photographs

c. 1871

Prestonian Rotary Press, 1871

Printing & Writing

1871

Inmates sharpening tools

Photographs

1871

Solar Corona 1871, December 12, Baikul, glass tran

Astronomy

1871

The Foreign Settlement

Photographs

c. 1871

The Banker's Glen

Photographs

c. 1871

A Rapid Boat

Photographs

c. 1871

Buddhist Monks

Photographs

c. 1871

A Pine Raft

Photographs

c. 1871