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Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE
Cream model with three cone shoped holes. Sticker marked 3. Part of a collection of small models of sanitary appliances, to be used for instruction in hygiene, in cabinet

Model of hygienic sanitary appliance

Domestic Appliances

1895

Collection of models of hygienic sanitary appliances

Domestic Appliances

1895

Model of pointer to the North Pole (Druv Nal)

Astronomy

1884-1886

Professor Ewing's magnetic tester, c.1895

Electricity and Magnetism

1895
Shell-Mex & British Petroleum Limited Tank Wagon, rectangular in shape with a 10-12T capacity. No 3171, built in 1901, for carrying oil. Registered with Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, no. 12739 and claimed from Falmouth Docks.

BP tank wagon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1901

Copper sheathing from H.M.S. "Meeanee," put on at

Metallurgy

before 1889

Box for geometry set

Mathematics

c. 1900

Cobalt and nickel speiss

Metallurgy

before 1889

Billcliff "Royalty" Plate Camera

Photographic Technology

1885-1895

Bog iron ore from old lake deposits in Holland, co

Metallurgy

before 1889
Folding stand camera for 3.25x4.25 inch plates; Lancaster patent lens with iris disphragm: f/10; rising and cross front, swing back; track and pinion focusing on lens panel; ground glass screen in Lancaster patent swing-out mount.

Lancaster 1893 Instantograph camera

Photographic Technology

1893

The first Michelson Echelon Grating made in Europe

Optics

1899

Specimen showing the accidental formation of malac

Metallurgy

before 1889

Stirn's Dectective Camera, 1892

Photographic Technology

1892

Medal from Heathfield, Sussex, 1902, by R Neal. S

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1902

Monocular microscope, brass, in mahogany case, use

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1890-1900

Thermometer, Fahrenheit, glass, in metal case, by

Clinical Diagnosis

1901

Thermometer, surface, watch-type, by Maw of London

Clinical Diagnosis

1900

Hollow hemisphere of mild steel, manufactured at L

Metallurgy

1886
Hopper Wagon, North Eastern Railway, Coal Hopper Wagon No 4551 20T of 1902.

Hopper wagon, North Eastern Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1902

Floorboard from the tower at Mather and Platt

Pumping Machinery

1902

Vertical Compound Steam Engine with Hackworth's Valve Gear, 1898

Motive Power

1898

Syringe, urethral, Guyon, silver and steel, by Col

Surgery

1885-1895

Basic crystalline slag, very similar to the last

Metallurgy

before 1889

Roller Blind Shutter for Camera

Photographic Technology

1900

Model of altitude circle (Unnatansha Yantra)

Astronomy

1884-1886

Edison "Home" phonograph, Model A with accessories, 1898

Sound Reproduction

1898

Aron clock meter

Electricity Supply

1890

Oil engine, made by Crossley B

Motive Power

c.1900

Hydraulic accumulator, 1900

Mechanical Power Transmission

1900

Faraday's Disc Electrical Generator

Electricity and Magnetism

1889

compound microscope

Scientific Instruments & Research

c.1900

Timer for gas street lamp

Gas Industry

c.1900

Theury's five-body microscope, 1885

Microscopes

1885

Boiler incrustation of gypsum, Chyandour Works, No

Metallurgy

before 1889

digital readout micrometer

Industrial Metrology

1893

Patented microscope by J. Swift and Son, serial no

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1894-1900

Star finder celestial globe

Astronomy

1895-1898
Stopwatch, steel, by J H Steward, 457, Strand, London, showing miles per hour from 1/4 mile distances, used by Rev W J Scott in timing the Railway Races to the North in 1895 and ''City of Truro" record breaking run in 1904.

W J Scott's stopwatch, 1890

Railway Timepieces

1890

Chandler's High Speed Engine, 1902

Motive Power

1902

Model gas engine by Carette, c. 1900

Heat Engines (non steam)

c. 1900

Pears' Blanc de Perle.

Industrial Chemistry

c. 1890

Crossley Otto 'Silent' Horizontal Engine

Heat Engines (non steam)

1888
Wagon solebar plate, "The Oldbury Railway Carriage & Wagon Co. Builders Oldbury, 1899, cast iron trefoil shape.

wagon solbar plate - oldbury

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1899

Graphic typewriter by C.F. Kindermann Company, 189

Printing & Writing

1895
Headboard, Great Western Railway, shield, ex royal headboard for King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, mounted on GWR Atbara Class 4-4-0 locomotive No 3374 "Britannia", 1902.

Headboard, Great Western Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1902

Dynamo in display case

Electricity Supply

1896
Steam locomotive and tender, Great Northern Railway, No. 990 "Henry Oakley" 4-4-2, designed by H.A. Ivatt, built at Doncaster 1898, withdrawn 1937, Length over buffers 57' 10", width, 8' 6", weight 60 tons

Great Northern Railway 'Henry Oakley'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1898

Gunning's pioneer street lamp gas controller

Time Measurement

1897