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Glass tube, with a brass cap at one end and open at the other end: containing traces of silver chromate and / or silver chloride, for Ocean depth sounding machine, used for marine vessel navigation, patented by Sir William Baron Kelvin Thomson, British, 1876 and made by James White, Glasgow, Scotland, 1876

Glass tube, containing a chemically prepared example, for Ocean depth sounding machine

Navigation

1876

Glass tube, with a brass cap at one end and open at the other end: containing traces of silver chromate and / or silver chloride, for Ocean depth sounding machine, used for marine vessel navigation, patented by Sir William Baron Kelvin Thomson, British, 1876 and made by James White, Glasgow, Scotland, 1876

Glass tube, containing a chemically prepared example, for Ocean depth sounding machine

Navigation

1876

Photograph of an equatorial by Steinhiel, with a Zollner photometer at the Pulkovo Observatory, St Petersburg in Russia, 1876.

Photograph of an equatorial by Steinhiel, with a Z

Astronomy

1876

Photograph of a vertical circle by Ertel at the Pulkovo Observatory, St Petersburg in Russia, 1876.

Photograph of a vertical circle by Ertel at the Pu

Astronomy

1876

Edelmann's absolute dynamometer including two loose coils and additional torsion tube

Edelmann's absolute dynamometer including two loos

Electricity and Magnetism

1876

One of two brass 6-inch semi-circular protractor , divided in half degrees, by W.F. Stanley, London, 1876.

One of two brass 6-inch semi-circular protractor ,

Mathematics

1876

Long-range mercury and glycerine barometer by Negretti & Zambra, London, 1876.

Long-range mercury and glycerine barometer, 1876

Meteorology

1876

Circular bronze medal, commemorates Lieut. General Renard who promoted the Exposition D' Hgiene et de Sauvetage in Brussels, designed by C. Wiener, Belgian, 1876

Circular bronze medal, commemorates Lieut. General

Wellcome Medals

1876

Bronze medal, commemorates Lieut. General Renard, artist Wiener, medal Belgian(?), 1876

Bronze medal, commemorates Lieut. General Renard,

Wellcome Medals

1876

Albumen Print attributed to Thomas Mitchell. Image shows the stern of the HMS Discovery, including name plate, in the ice pack at 'Discovery' Bay. A long ruler measures the depth of the ice. Taken during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Captain George Strong Nares. Page 15 of an album titled "Her Majesty's Ships the Alert & Discovery. 1875-1876. Vol. 2."

"Discovery" 81° 44’ N

Photographs

March 1876

Albumen Print attributed to Thomas Mitchell. Image shows the HMS Discovery surrounded by the ice pack in 'Discovery' Bay, Canada on 21 February 1876. A frozen gap in the ice acts as a makeshift skating rink. Taken during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Captain George Strong Nares. Page seven of an album titled "Her Majesty's Ships the Alert & Discovery. 1875-1876. Vol. 2."

HMS Discovery and Skating Rink - Photographed the 21 Feb 1876

Photographs

21 February 1876

Albumen Print attributed to Thomas Mitchell. Image shows an iceberg within the northern ice pack at Cape Rawson, Canada, 1876. Taken during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Captain George Strong Nares. Page 32 of an album titled "Her Majesty's Ships the Alert & Discovery. 1875-1876. Vol. 2."

"Alert" winter-quarters, 82° 27’ N, floe-bergs aground protecting ship from northern pack

Photographs

1876

Albumen Print attributed to Thomas Mitchell. Image shows the decapitated head of a musk ox resting in snow. Taken during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Captain George Strong Nares. Page 22 of an album titled "Her Majesty's Ships the Alert & Discovery. 1875-1876. Vol. 2."

Head of musk ox

Photographs

1876

Albumen Print attributed to Thomas Mitchell. Landscape photograph of snow-covered Westward Ho! Valley, Ellesmere Island, Canada. Taken during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Captain George Strong Nares. Page 45 of an album titled "Her Majesty's Ships the Alert & Discovery. 1875-1876. Vol. 2."

'Westwood Ho' Valley, 82° 40' N

Photographs

1876

Albumen Print attributed to Thomas Mitchell. Image shows netting from the HMS Alert, with ropes extending horizontally across top of photograph. In the middle distance a party of crew members work to clear a passage through floe bergs in Cape Rawson, Canada, June 1876. Taken during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Captain George Strong Nares. Page 28 of an album titled "Her Majesty's Ships the Alert & Discovery. 1875-1876. Vol. 2."

"Alert" 82° 27’ N. July - Northern pack blown offshore by heavy gale. Party on ice clearing passage through the barrier of floe bergs

Photographs

1876

Albumen Print attributed to Thomas Mitchell. Image shows a group of polar explorers standing next to a sledge on the ice road between the HMS Alert and HMS Discovery at Cape Union. Taken during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Captain George Strong Nares. Page 39 of an album titled "Her Majesty's Ships the Alert & Discovery. 1875-1876. Vol. 2."

Cape Union - main road between "Alert" & "Discovery" on top of ice foot, 30-40 feet above pack ice, Lat. 82° 20’ N

Photographs

1876

Albumen Print attributed to Thomas Mitchell. Image shows a shovel propped up against a wall of ice. Taken during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Captain George Strong Nares. Page 50 of an album titled "Her Majesty's Ships the Alert & Discovery. 1875-1876. Vol. 2."

Section of ice-ice, 82° 27’ N

Photographs

1876

Albumen Print attributed to Thomas Mitchell. Image shows a cairn made out of empty tin cans, on the shore of 'Discovery' Bay. Sled dogs lay on the stony ground in the foreground. Taken during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Captain George Strong Nares. Page 18 of an album titled "Her Majesty's Ships the Alert & Discovery. 1875-1876. Vol. 2."

Discovery Bay, 81° 44’ N, Cape Lieber in distance - esquimaux dogs. July 1876, natural breakwater

Photographs

July 1876

Albumen Print attributed to Thomas Mitchell. Image shows the HMS Alert stuck in the ice pack in Rawson Bay, Canada, during the winter of 1876. A crew member and sled dog walk through the snow in the foreground. Taken during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Captain George Strong Nares. Page 21 of an album titled "Her Majesty's Ships the Alert & Discovery. 1875-1876. Vol. 2."

"Alert" winter-quarters, 82° 27’ N, Cape Rawson

Photographs

1876

Dry and Wet bulb thermometers. On Brass stand, by Geissler, 1876.

Dry and Wet bulb thermometers

Meteorology

1876

Photographs of an atmospheric thermometer, Clement and Desormes apparatus, a mercury calorimeter and Melloni's apparatus, on one sheet

Photographs of an atmospheric thermometer, Clement

Heat

1876

Landau-type child's perambulator, fitted with wire wheels, with one original wooden wheel, 1876. (Three replica wooden wheels added in workshop June 1934. The wire wheels were BOS May 1939 & destroyed).

Landau-Type Child's Perambulator

Road Transport

1876

Notice, Dundalk Newry & Greenore Railway, wooden with iron letters, DN&GR are general carriers to and from all parts of England, Scotland and the Continent via Greenore & Holyhead, ex Carlingford Station (opened 1st August 1876, closed 31st December 1951).

Notice, Dundalk Newry & Greenore Railway, wooden with iron l

Railway Infrastructure

1876

One of four photographic views of the Pulkovo Observatory, St Petersburg in Russia, 1876.

One of four photographic views of the Pulkovo Obse

Astronomy

1876

One of four photograph taken from the north side of the original buildings of the Pulkovo Observatory, St Petersburg in Russia, 1876.

One of four photograph taken from the north side o

Astronomy

1876

One of four photographic views of the Pulkovo Observatory, St Petersburg in Russia, 1876.

One of four photographic views of the Pulkovo Obse

Astronomy

1876

Illuminated address from the workers of the Machine, Tool & Engine Departments of Sir Joseph Whitworth & Co to Mr J. M. Widowson on his leaving the company in 1876.

Sir Joseph Whitworth & Co. illuminated address

Instrument for electrifying syphon recorder ink bottles

Electricity and Magnetism

1876

Kelvin type 4-inch aperiodic compass with gimbals, by James White, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, 1876

Kelvin 4-inch aperiodic compass with gimbals

Navigation

1876

Printing plate, copper, probably a patch plate, for North Eastern Railway 4 1/2% New Preference Stock Share Certificate, 1876.

Copper Share Certificate Printing Plate, North Eastern Railway

Tools of the Trade & Personal Accessories

1876

Catalan collection of semi-regular polyhedra: hexecontahedron, in plaster

Hexecontahedron

Mathematics

1876

Catalan collection of semi-regular polyhedra: dual of a snub cube (originally icotetrahedron), in plaster

Dual of a Snub Cube

Mathematics

1876

Catalan collection of semi-regular polyhedra; plaster model; decatetrahedron

Catalan collection of semi-regular polyhedra; plas

Mathematics

1876

One of two photographs showing a transit instrument by Ertel and a mural circle made by Troughton and Simms at the U.S. Naval Observatory, Washington.

One of two photographs showing a transit instrume

Astronomy

1876

Photograph of Volta's original electrophorus

Volta's original electrophorus

Electricity and Magnetism

1876

Photograph of a Zenith telescope (6 3/4" x 9 1/2").

Photograph of a Zenith telescope (6 3/4" x 9 1/2")

Astronomy

1876

Geissler vacuum tube, 3 bulbs. Length 4ft 6ins.

Electricity and Magnetism

1876

Serbian red cross medal, silver and red enamel, with ribbon, unsigned Serbia, 1876

Serbian red cross medal, silver and red enamel, wi

Wellcome Medals

1876

Photograph 8"x9 3/4" of Scott's phonautograph made by De Palma, Naples.

Scott's phonautograph

Acoustics

1876

Photograph of a pastel drawing of the Ring Nebula (M57) in Lyra from observations by Prof. E.S. Holden, dated Oct 25th 1875, using telescopes of the United States Naval Observatory at Foggy Bottom, Washington, DC.

Photograph of a pastel drawing of the Ring Nebula in Lyra

Astronomy

1876

Hygrometer, consisting of two thermometers on brass stand. The stem of the wet bulb is bent and has a large bulb covered with muslin. One thermometer is broken.

Hygrometer, consisting of two thermometers on bras

Meteorology

1876

Brass hood for Kelvin type 4-inch aperiodic compass, by James White, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, 1876.

Brass hood for Kelvin type 4-inch aperiodic compass

Navigation

1876

Circular bronze medal, commemorates an exhibition and congress of Hygiene and safety held in Belgium, possibly awarded to Eloin (?), designed by Charles Wiener, Belgian 1876

Circular bronze medal, commemorates an exhibition

Wellcome Medals

1876

Albumen Print attributed to Thomas Mitchell. Image shows a cairn made out of empty tin cans, on the shore of 'Discovery' Bay. Taken during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Captain George Strong Nares. Page 17 of an album titled "Her Majesty's Ships the Alert & Discovery. 1875-1876. Vol. 2."

Discovery Bay, 81° 44’ N, July 1876 - natural breakwater, Cape Lieber in distance, cairn of empty tins and post office

Photographs

July 1876

Albumen Print attributed to Thomas Mitchell. Image shows a group of three polar explorers standing next to a sledge in the shadow of an iceberg at Cape Union. Taken during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Captain George Strong Nares. Page 40 of an album titled "Her Majesty's Ships the Alert & Discovery. 1875-1876. Vol. 2."

Cape Union - main road between "Alert" & "Discovery". Sledge lowered over ice foot on to floe beneath, finding the road not much improved

Photographs

1876

Albumen Print attributed to Thomas Mitchell. Group photograph of the 'Greenland Division' of the HMS Discovery, prior to trekking toward the North Pole. A Lieutenant Beaumont and Dr Cooper are named but not identified. Taken during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Captain George Strong Nares. Page 33 of an album titled "Her Majesty's Ships the Alert & Discovery. 1875-1876. Vol. 2."

Greenland division of sledges ready to start, HMS "Discovery" 81° 44’ N. Lieutenant Beaumont, Dr Coppinger

Photographs

1876

Albumen Print attributed to Thomas Mitchell. Landscape photograph of snow-covered Westward Ho! Valley, Ellesmere Island, Canada. Taken during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Captain George Strong Nares. Page 44 of an album titled "Her Majesty's Ships the Alert & Discovery. 1875-1876. Vol. 2."

'Westward Ho' Valley - 82° 40’ N

Photographs

1876

Albumen Print attributed to Thomas Mitchell. Image shows a group of polar explorers pulling a sledge up a snow slope at Cape Rawson, Canada. Taken during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Captain George Strong Nares. Page 38 of an album titled "Her Majesty's Ships the Alert & Discovery. 1875-1876. Vol. 2."

30 foot snow slope at Cape Rawson 82° 26’ N, hauling sledge to summit

Photographs

1876

Albumen Print attributed to Thomas Mitchell. Landscape photograph of snow-covered Winchester Valley, Canada. Taken during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Captain George Strong Nares. Page 46 of an album titled "Her Majesty's Ships the Alert & Discovery. 1875-1876. Vol. 2."

Winchester Valley - 82° 28’ N July 1876 - a week before thaw, June 1876

Photographs

1876

Albumen Print attributed to Thomas Mitchell. Image shows a group of polar explorers digging a sledge road on the side of a snow slope at Cape Rawson, Canada. Taken during the British Arctic Expedition of 1875-1876, led by Captain George Strong Nares. Page 37 of an album titled "Her Majesty's Ships the Alert & Discovery. 1875-1876. Vol. 2."

30 foot snow slope at Cape Rawson 82° 26’ N, digging road for sledge, northern pack outside

Photographs

1876