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Silver Medal South London Photographic Society. Awarded E Dunmore, Artisitic Competition, 1881. 42mm diameter.

Silver Medal South London Photographic Society

Printed Materials & Ephemera

1881

Zinc fumes, called "Blue oxide", from Vivian's Spelter Works, Morriston, Swansea, 1883

Zinc fumes, called "Blue oxide", from Vivian's Spe

Metallurgy

1883

Earliest form of Ferranti dynamo; with first and latest type of helix, used with this machine

Ferranti dynamo

Electricity Supply

1882-1883

M.O. Stevenson screen with wet and dry bulb thermometers, 1883

Stevenson screen

Meteorology

1883

Clinograph for indicating the angles of boreholes, designed by E.F. McGeorge, 1883. Plus six glass tubes, five of which contain liquid in tube holder, and dispensing pot.

Clinograph, British, 1883

Surveying

1883

Book, 'Text-book on the Steam Engine' by T. M. Goodeeve, published by Crosby Lockwood and Co., London, 1883, hard covers, viii, 296 pages, includes 16 pages 'A Catalogue of Books including many new and standard works in Engineering, Architecure, Agriculture, Mathematics, Mechanics, Science, Etc.'

Text-book on the Steam Engine

Library Collections

1883

Before lens shutter for 40mm screwed lens mount, oval shape with two sliding plates with semi circular ends. With a pneumatic release valve, time stops, iris diaphragm before shutter calibrated at 10-30. Lancaster, 1894.

Lancaster see-saw shutter

Photographic Technology

1884

Bacon's map of Portsmouth, Portsea, Landport, Southsea and Gosport, showing the line of the proposed Southsea Railway, and rail and tram lines. Scale: 6"-1 mile.

Bacon's map

Railway Maps & Plans

post 1883

Map, Cleveland Extension Mineral Railway, Cleveland Ironstone ore field and proposed railway; relates to North Eastern Railway (proposed railway), 1883, 1 inch to 2 miles, printed by Waterlow Bros., paper.

Map, Cleveland Extension Mineral Railway, Cleveland Ironston

Railway Maps & Plans

1883

W. H. Smith & Son's Railway Map of the British Isles. Marked in pencil on the inside "C.A.A.G. Aug. 4th 1884."

W. H. Smith & Son's Railway Map of the British Isles

Railway Maps & Plans

c. 1884

Ayrton and Perry's electric motor, 1882

Electricity Supply

1882

Ceramic saucer from tea/coffee service presented to Mr. Robert Wilkie, Station Master at Hexham on his promotion to Corbridge station, 26 September 1882. Made by Edge, Malkin & Co. Overall: 27 mm x 167 mm (dia. rim).

Ceramic saucer from Robert Wilkie set

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1882

A photograph entitled 'Execution outside Alexandria, near the Cairo Railway…',taken by an unknown photographer in December 1882. The photograph shows a public execution outside the railway station in Alexandria, Egypt. A small crowd has gathered to view this gruesome scene. This man was executed for the murder of Dr Herbert P Ribton, a British subject killed during riots in Alexandria on 11 June 1882, during the Anglo-Egyptian War.

Execution outside Alexandria, near the Cairo Railway

Photographs

1882-12

1881-current, first aid and emergency relief, American

American Red Cross Society

1881

Voltmeter, permanent magnet type, Ayrton and Perry, 1881

Voltmeter, permanent magnet type, Ayrton and Perry

Electricity and Magnetism

1881-1882

Comet, 1882, 1882, Nov, 14, 14h 15m G.M.T. exposure, 2h 20m. David Gill, Cape of Good Hope Observatory

Comet, 1882, 1882, Nov, 14, 14h 15m G.M.T. exposur

Astronomy

1882

Ceramic tea cup from tea/coffee service presented to Mr. Robert Wilkie, Station Master at Hexham on his promotion to Corbridge station, 26 September 1882. Made by Edge, Malkin & Co. Overall: 73 mm x 127 mm x 102 mm.

Ceramic tea cup from Robert Wilkie set

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1882

Bronze medal, awarded to Surgeon Yarr, donated by N. Montefiore FRCS, of Army Medical School, designed by Alphee Dubois, English or French, 1881

Bronze medal, awarded to Surgeon Yarr, donated by

Wellcome Medals

1881

1882-1959/1960, photographer, Scoforth

Shuttleworth, Henry Lee

1882

1883-active 2011, manufacturer of ceramic wares,

Johnson Brothers

1883

Roller clutch as fitted in 1881 to the Cheylesmore double-driven rear steering tricycle. Presented by Swift Cycle Co., Coventry. Clutch was patented by J White and G Davies. Cycle was built by the Coventry Machinists Company.

Roller clutch as fitted to Cheylesmore tricycle

Road Transport

1881

Foot-and-mouth disease poster, infected premises in Wiltshire, issued in Marlborough, 3rd January 1881

Foot-and-mouth disease poster, infected premises i

Veterinary Medicine

1881

McLaren traction engine No.112 "Empress of India" built in 1881

McLaren Traction Engine No.112, "Empress of India"

Agricultural Engineering

1881

Bradbury lock stitch rotary shuttle treadle-operated sewing machine, model B2 of 1882 with table, treadle, machine lid, catalogue and some accessories. Patented 1880

Bradbury lock stitch rotary shuttle treadle-operated sewing

Textiles Machinery

1882

Chain testing machine with oil pump and selection of shackles and clamps, made by Greenwood and Batley, Leeds, c. 1882

Chain testing machine with oil pump and selection

Metallurgy

1882

Dial from Parson's steam turbine generator. Round dial face in cream colour, with inscription 'Bourdon's Pressure Gauge Improved' and 'C.F. Wright Birmingham'. Dial face with glass cover and in brass coloured fitting. Pipe protruding from bottom of dial with handle, and looped copper pipe. Bottom of pipe in dark coloured metal which has split towards bottom.

Dial from Parsons' steam turbine generator

Motive Power

1884

Resin replica of a clay model of a sheep's liver used for divination, original Babylonian, original 2050BC to 1750BC

Copy of model of a sheep's liver. Original Babylonian, c. 2050-1750 BC.

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

Model of the fire float "Fire Queen", Bristol, 1884, scale 1:48

Fire float, 1884.

Firefighting

1884

Portsmouth Evening News

1883

Baxter, Frank

1882

1883-current(2009), railway company, Norway

Norwegian State Railways

1883

Metal shot, from a Fenian bomb used in an attempt to blow up Paddington Station on 26th February 1884. The shot was embedded in dynamite, hidden in a valise and left in a cloakroom. The bomb was defused without exploding.

Metal shot, from a bomb defused at Paddington Station in 1884

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1884-02

Two Harden fire grenades, British, 1883

Two Harden fire grenades, 1883.

Firefighting

1883

1884-1961, mountaineer, 1933 Everest expedition leader, England?, British

Ruttledge, Hugh

1884

Boy's apparatus for determining the mechanical equivalent of heat by The Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company, Cambridge, England, 1884. From The Physical Laboratory of the Science and Arts Department, South Kensington.

Boy's Mechanical Equivalent of Heat Apparatus, 1884

Heat

1884

Photographic print showing a portion of the stars in the constellation of Cassiopeia [RA 0h 7m, Dec +29 degress]. Taken in November 1883 by the Henry brothers [Paul & Prosper] using an astrographic telescope at the Paris Observatory.

Photograph of a star field in the constellation of Cassiopeia using the astrographic telescope at the Paris Observatory, 1883

Astronomy

1883

Solar spectroscope with stand and two mahogany boxes by T. Cooke and Sons, York, England, 1881. Used at the Solar Physics Observatory, South Kensington between 1881 and 1912. The set of prisms give a high dispersion equal to 20 prisms, by passing the light through the prisms train four times.

Solar spectroscope by T. Cooke & Sons, 1881

Astronomy

1881

1882-current (2010), art gallery, Scottish; British

Scottish National Portrait Gallery

1882

Refracting telescope by Howard Grubb, 1884, on equatorial mounting, aperture 6 inches, with clock drive and accessories

Refracting telescope with observatory mounting, 1884

Astronomy

1884

Hucks, Bentfield Charles

1884

c.1884-present (2009), printers, Southampton, England

Hobbs the Printers Limited

1884

Two-core Edison Tube, full length (20ft) uncut, with junction boxes at either end and short cut tubes on the outer ends, by Edison Electric Tube Company, New York, 1882. Used to supply electricity for lighting the Queensland Parliamentary buildings in Brisbane, Australia from 1884.

Two-core Edison Tube, full length (20ft) uncut, with junction boxes at either end and short cut tubes on the outer ends

Electricity Supply

1882

Copy of Rudge phantoscope.

Replica Rudge Phantascope

Cinematography

1930 (1884)

1881-present, railway company, Canadian

Canadian Pacific Railway

1881

Two Hammond "Ideal" typewriters, one with case, by Hammond Typewriter Company Limited, United Sates, 1884

Two Hammond 'Ideal' typewriters, one with case

Printing & Writing

1884

mercury motor type electricity supply meter by Ferranti, 1884.

mercury motor type electricity supply meter by Fer

Electricity Supply

1884

Metal cover of Ferranti alternator (also known as an alternating current dynamo) – model number 8. Designed by Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti and made in London in 1882.

Cover of Ferranti alternator no.8, around 1882

Electricity Supply

1882

De Meritens' dynamo, 1881

Electricity Supply

1881

Tensile testbar, manganese steel, 21.69% Mn, 1882-1884

Tensile testbar, manganese steel, 21.69% Mn, 1882-

Metallurgy

1882-1884

Prototype of Mudford's improved form of Kelvin's astatic galvanometer, with letter from Kelvin approving Mudford's improvement

Prototype of Mudford's improved form of Kelvin's a

Electricity and Magnetism

1883