Cinematography
1930 (1884)
Copy of Rudge projector, c. 1884 and two reproduction glass positives made for replica of Rudge's phantascope (wholeplate black and white positives).
Mathematics
1876
Map measurer by W. F. Stanley with direct reading scale
Classical & Medieval Medicine
2000-1001 BCE
Memorial stele to the doorkeepr Ruma, showing his withered right leg, plaster copy of Egyptian original, 2000-1001BC. Made in Dantes Plad in Copenhagen (Denmark).
Fifteen compasses and dividers chiefly in half sets; four of these are tubular compasses ( 52 pieces in all, mounted on board)
Dentistry
1878-1882
Dental forceps, hawk's bill, for lower left roots, nickel plated steel, by Evrard, 34 Berners Street, London, England, 1878-1882.
Papermaking
after 1880
Twelve sheets of specimen papers with water-mark: "The Delhi and London Bank Ltd."
One of 26 plotting scales by W.F. Stanley, Great Turnstile London. Ivory scale with bevel section, 6-inch with scales for 5-Feet or 6-inch to a mile in links.
Mathematical surface model, plaster, to illustrate the torsion of a prism having ridges
Geophysics
Seismochronograph designed by Arnold Von Lasaulx, Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland), c. 1876
Road Transport
1877
Part of an aeolus ball bearing, 1877
Electricity Supply
1889
A 10,000-volt mains electricity cable made by Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti. It was used in the safety test at Deptford power station where a chisel was driven into this section of live cable in 1889.
Building Construction
Square pavement brick from Babylonia (Southern Iraq), 2nd millennium BC
Surgery
1879
Apparatus for rendering the atmosphere antiseptic (hammer action)
Metallurgy
before 1889
Basic crystalline slag, very similar to the last
Electricity and Magnetism
1888
Muirhead Clark standard cell
Motive Power
1884
Parsons' original Steam Turbine generator,1884
Lighting
c. 1888
Carbon filament light bulb with pale blue glass, c. 1888
Meteoric iron, rusted portion reduced by carbonic oxide gas, conducted by R. Smith, on portions of the largest meteorite in the British Museum and on the rust derived from it
Photographs
1882-12-06
A photograph entitled 'Tombs of English killed at Tel el Kebir near the station', taken by an unknown photographer in December 1882. The photograph shows British graves on the battlefield of Tel-el-Kebir, Egypt.
Massive cinnabar, very rich in the ore
Weighing & Measuring
Set of weights (13) of rock crystal, 50 grammes to 0.1 gramme by Hermann Stern, Oberstein in ebony case.
Optics
1881
Gas burner assembly from Anvil Point lighthouse, Swanage, 1881.
1882-12
A photograph of people in a street in Cairo, Egypt, ' taken by an unknown photographer in December 1882.
A Kodak circular snapshot photograph of the drawing room at 11 Montague Place, London, taken by an unknown photographer in 1888. The photograph shows a typical mid-Victorian drawing room.
Stanley 6-inch plain drawing pen, Great Turnstile, London, 1876
Materia Medica & Pharmacology
1883
53 herbarium sheets of plants collected by Joseph & Agnes Lister during a trip abroad to the Austro-Hungarian Empire (modern day Slovakia and Hungary). The majority of the specimens were collected during a trip in 1883.
Plaster model of a surface generated by a semi-circle made by Charles Delagrave, Paris, 1876.
Telecommunications
1878
Siemens telephone receiver, c. 1878
Pig-iron from Madras, called grey
Chloride of mercury or calomel. Found at Altwasser in Upper Hungary
Meteorology
Aneroid barometer with the works exposed, in mahogany frame, invented by Lucien Vidie, and made by R. Deutschbein, Hamburg, Germany, 1876
Twice roasted ore-furnace regulus, "Kupferstein," Hettstedt
Crystals in a metal slag, Swansea, 1883
Champion iron ore from Lake Superior, smelted for Bessemer iron at the Dunbar Furnace, Pennsylvania
Photographic Technology
c.1888
'British' 15x 12 inch plate camera made by J.T Chapman Ltd of Manchester, c1888. No lens. Two double dark slides, in wood case. Whole: shape: rectangular box with hinged, ground lass plate (broken) at rear. Hinged wooden front drops down to form baseboard. Double extension . Rising front. Detachable lens panel. No lens. Front tilts forward. Back tilts forward and (by changing
Coal Mining
c.1880
Lowne's air meter, No 821, in wooden case, made by Joseph Casartelli, Manchester, c.1880.
A Woodburytype portrait of Richard Owen, taken by Lock and Whitfield in 1878. This Woodburytype is taken from a series of seven volumes entitled 'Men of Mark'. Published between 1876 and 1883, each volume featured 36 portraits of prominent men of the time. A brief biographical essay by Thompson Cooper (1837-1904) accompanied each portrait.
A Woodburytype entitled 'Dr Schliemann', taken by Lock and Whitfield in 1877. This Woodburytype is taken from a series of seven volumes entitled 'Men of Mark'. Published between 1876 and 1883, each volume featured 36 portraits of prominent men of the time. A brief biographical essay by Thompson Cooper (1837-1904) accompanied each portrait.
A Woodburytype entitled 'John Scott Russell', taken by Lock and Whitfield in 1878. This Woodburytype is taken from a series of seven volumes entitled 'Men of Mark'. Published between 1876 and 1883, each volume featured 36 portraits of prominent men of the time. A brief biographical essay by Thompson Cooper (1837-1904) accompanied each portrait.
Textiles Machinery
1885-1886
Bobbin of artificial silk, 1885-1886.
A Woodburytype portrait of Anthony Trollope, taken by Lock and Whitfield in 1878. This Woodburytype is taken from a series of seven volumes entitled 'Men of Mark'. Published between 1876 and 1883, each volume featured 36 portraits of prominent men of the time. A brief biographical essay by Thompson Cooper (1837-1904) accompanied each portrait.
A Woodburytype entitled 'Sir Joseph William Bazalgette' taken by Lock and Whitfield in 1877. This Woodburytype is taken from a series of seven volumes entitled 'Men of Mark'. Published between 1876 and 1883, each volume featured 36 portraits of prominent men of the time. A brief biographical essay by Thompson Cooper (1837-1904) accompanied each portrait.
A Woodburytype portrait of Jules Verne taken by Lock and Whitfield in 1877. This Woodburytype is taken from a series of seven volumes entitled 'Men of Mark'. Published between 1876 and 1883, each volume featured 36 portraits of prominent men of the time.
c. 1880
An intricate brooch containing photographs of five family members mounted into four of five individual oval sections, taken by an unknown photographer, in about 1880. The father of the family appears at the top of the brooch. In the centre are the youngest boy and a girl, to the right, a young boy, and at the base an older boy. All the photographs have been hand coloured in blue, drawing attention to clothing and background. The empty mount to the left of the brooch may have contained the photograph of the mother of the family.
Gas Industry
Seal and stamp - Newhaven Gas and Coke Company. Part of a collection of fifteen seals and thirteen stamps manufactured by gas companies that operated in the South East of England in the nineteenth century (from the counties of Kent, West Sussex, East Sussex and Surrey).
2000-1350 BCE
Earthenware oil jar, Egyptian, probably New Kingdom, 1580-1350BC
Froude
Circular slide rule by Troughton and Simms, designed by William Froude c.1877, with inscription plate and three logarithmic scales, used at the Admiralty Experimental Establishment, by Troughton and Simms, London, 1887 and presented by the Russian Minister of Maune to W. Froude.
One of 26 plotting scales by W.F. Stanley, Great Turnstile London. Ivory scale with bevel section, 6-inch with 2000, 1000, 30 & 15 Metre scales plus 5-Feet or 6-inch to a mile or 10 Links 88 = Feet on the front.
2050-1750 BCE
Resin replica of a clay model of a sheep's liver used for divination, original Babylonian, original 2050BC to 1750BC
One of 26 plotting scales by W.F. Stanley, Great Turnstile London. Broken ebonite bevel section scale, 12-inch with 94, 47 & 198 divisions on the front.
