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London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Gladstone

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1882

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1880

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

Lighting

1879

Lancashire Loom

Textile Industry

c. 1880

Gower-Bell telephone, 1881

Telecommunications

1881
1881-1955, bacteriologist; discoverer of penicillin, British

Fleming, Sir Alexander

1881 - 1955

Crossley telephone receiver, 1880

Telecommunications

1880

Edison telephone peg switchboard and pegs, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Crossley table telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Engraving: Watt's first experiment

Art

1879

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

Electricity and Magnetism

1880

Jones 50-line switchboard, 1879.

Telecommunications

1879

Tailboard, North Eastern Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1880

Wood-working brace drill, with button-operated latch chuck, 1875-1885

Hand and Machine Tools

c. 1880

Rotative Compound Beam Engine, 1881

Pumping Machinery

1881 (original)

Water from the River Jordan

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1881

Bezel wind wrist watch, c.1880

Time Measurement

c. 1880

Child's Ordinary bicycle (c. 1880)

Road Transport

c.1880

Lawson 'Bicyclette', 1879

Road Transport

1879

Snuffbox in the form of a ram's head, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1881-1882

Smoking

1881-1882
1879-current (2020), manufacturer of surgical instruments, London, England

Downs Surgical Limited

1879
1880-1995, laboratory equipment manufacturer (chemistry, physics), London, England

A Gallenkamp and Company Limited

1880 - 1995

Marey's Camera for Chronophotography

Wellcome (general)

1882
1882-1960, plastic surgeon, lecturer, Dunedin, New Zealander

Gillies, Sir Harold Delf

1882 - 1960

Scottish soldiers at the Battle of Tel-el-Kebir

Photographs

1882

'The Horse in Motion'

Photographs

1882
Silver plated model of the Forth Railway Bridge, 1882-1890, scale 1:480, Parliamentary submission model, on mirror base in glazed on table stand

Forth Railway Bridge, 1882.

Civil Engineering

1882

Incandescent electric lamp with 'candlestick' cap

Lighting

1879

One Penny Postage and Inland Revenue Stamps

Art

1881

Very early Edison carbon filament lamp.

Lighting

1879

W. H. Bailey Hot-Air Engine

Motive Power

1880
Walking stick, made from telegraph wires which passed over the old Tay Bridge before the Disaster of 1879, made by John McKay a labourer of Tayport Harbour, (broken).

Walking stick made from telegraph wires from Tay Bridge

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1879

'Silvertown Set' telephone with Blake transmitter, 1879-1890

Telecommunications

1879-1880

Wax death mask of Benjamin Disraeli, England, 1881

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1881

Portable chemistry set

Experimental Chemistry

1880

Sketch Showing the Attack on Tel-el-Kebir, 13th September 1882

Photographs

1882

Fort Mex, Alexandria

Photographs

1882-11-12

Tri-unial magic lantern

Photographic Technology

1880

Fort Ada, Alexandria

Photographs

1882-11-12

Ferranti alternator no.8, around 1882

Electricity Supply

1882
c.1880 -1992, stationers; scientific equipment manufacturer, Manchester, England

A G Thornton Limited

1880 - 1992

W. H. Bailey & Co Hot-Air Engine

Motive Power

1880

Protector Lamp Co. miner's unb

Coal Mining

c. 1880

Bisschop single-cylinder Vertical Gas Engine

Motive Power

1882

Clay figure of animal

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1000 BCE

Sir Phillip Cunliffe Owen

Photographs

1880

William Powell Frith

Photographs

1880

Hall typewriter in portable walnut case, 1881

Printing & Writing

1881