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Model apparatus for transmitting pictures by telegraph, 1881

Telecommunications

1881

Underground oil-filled telegraph cable system, 1880

Telecommunications

1880

Antiseptic machine, England, 1879

Surgery

1879

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

Building Construction

2000-1001 BCE

Seal and stamp - Newhaven Gas and Coke Company

Gas Industry

1879

Photographic brooch

Photographs

c. 1880

Maximum Mercury and Minimum Alcohol Thermometer by J.J. Griffin & Sons, 1880

Heat

1880

Richard Owen

Photographs

1878

Anthony Trollope

Photographs

1878

One long pear shaped vacuum tube with Maltese cross shaped anode

Electricity and Magnetism

1879

Bell Telephone

Electricity and Magnetism

1878

W. H. Bailey Hot-Air Engine

Motive Power

1880
Model of a hand-power rock drill with 2 drills and spanner.

Model of a hand-power rock drill with 2 drills and

Mining & Ore Dressing

1879
Fuller's spiral slide rule, no. 849, made by W.F. Stanley, with an instruction booklet

George Fuller's spiral cylindrical slide rule

Mathematics

c. 1880

Demonstration equipment showing expansion of brass and iron

Heat

1880

Chislett's conical electro-magnetic machine, 1873

Electricity and Magnetism

1880
Salsbury, cycle-hub oil lamp.

Salsbury, cycle-hub oil lamp.

Road Transport

c.1880

Telephone receiver, 1879, earpiece marked 'The Tel

Telecommunications

1879

Shergold Safety Bicycle by Thomas Shergold

Road Transport

1878
1879-, manufacturer of instruments and control equipment, Frankfurt, Germany

Hartmann and Braun

1879

Tasimeter, improved form

Heat

1878
Set of wheels, cast from original patterns for Blenkinsop Railway locomotive, 1 fluted set, 2 flanged sets, painted black and set on rails; overall dimensions: 1800 mm x 2000 mm (see note below)

Set of wheels from Blenkinsop Railway locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1880

Coventry Machinists Co.'s cycle spring ring ball b

Mechanical Power Transmission

c. 1880

Three of the first microphones, 1878.

Telecommunications

1878

Sir William Thomson's Triple Depth Gauge, one of two, 1880

Oceanography

1880

Thomas Hughes

Photographs

1880

Model of a Shand Mason 50 foot lattice girder fire escape, patented 1880

Firefighting

1880
1878-1983, publisher of card games and stationery, London, England

Castell Brothers Limited

1878 - 1983
Model steam locomotive, scale 1:12, live steam, 0-6-6-0, double Fairlie locomotive, no. 284, 1879 on machined brass and mahogany bridge stand with integral turntables and rollers to demonstrate articulation when running, prototype not known but possibly built by Avonside of Bristol. Purchased by the Science Museum from Regent Street Polytechnic.

Fairlie steam locomotive model

Railway Models

1879
1881-1968, manufacturing engineers, Openshaw, Manchester

Crossley Brothers Limited

1881 - 2009

Plug type resistance box in German silver wire, ma

Electricity and Magnetism

1880

Thermometer, fahrenheit with ring-shaped bulb, in

Clinical Diagnosis

1880

Hydrometer by W. Geissler, Amsterdam, 1881.

Experimental Chemistry

1881
Ship's bell, London Brighton & South Coast Railway, 'BRIGHTON 1878', ex Paddle Steamer Brighton III, built J. Elder & Co., Govan, 1878.

brighton ship bell

Railway Shipping

1878

Lowne's patent colliery air me

Coal Mining

c.1880

Carbon arc lamp

Lighting

c.1881

Mustard grinder, Swedish, c.1880

Domestic Appliances

1880

Microscope attachment for oblique illumination, c.

Microscopes

1880

Knott and Wood makers plate

Coal Mining

c. 1880
Morse sounder, c.1880. Double plate sounder., in wooden case with needle and dial at the top. Last used over railway telegraph circuits to transmit Morse code through a reversal of the current to distinguish dot from dash. The needle moved to left and right.

Morse code sounder used over railway telegraph circuits

Telecommunications

c.1880

Dissection(?) set, leatherette, dated 1880, French

Surgery

1880

Flat bottomed "egg-bottle", embossed Saunders Ltd.

Glass Technology

1880

Hagemann hand anemometer, c. 1881.

Meteorology

1881

Telephone receiver 1881, earpiece marked 'United T

Telecommunications

1881

Guidebook, Midland Railway, "Illustrated Tourist Guide", 187

Library Collections

1879

Astatic mirror galvanometer, (no. 166), by Elliott

Electricity and Magnetism

1880

Hypodermic syringe set, in embsossed silver case,

Therapeutics

1880
Locomotive worksplate, brass, oval, Lilleshall Co, Engineers, 1880, Shropshire.

lilleshall & co worksplate

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1880

"Rough sketch of James Nasmyths' apparatus by whic

Astronomy

1879

Enlarged Photograph of Part of the Sun's Disc

Astronomy

1878