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Great Western Railway fireman's jacket

Railway Uniform & Costume

1900

Stereoscopic Camera

Photographic Technology

1885-1890
Locomotive and tender, 4-8-0, 3' 6" gauge, wood burning, with 8-wheel double-bogie tender, built by Sharp Stewart in 1896 for the Cape Government Railway, later South African Railways. Locomotive number 390, later SAR 993, order number E1073 and T1073. Subsequently operated by Zambezi Sawmills Railway (also known as the Mulobezi Railway). Operated on the Mulobezi to Livingstone line. Length 51 4"; width 8'; height 12'.

Cape Government locomotive and tender 4-8-0, 1896

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1896

Parson's no. 2 geared turbine fitted to a launch, with two explanatory diagrams

Marine Engines

1897

Fragments of a half eagle coin. Analysed by R. Smi

Metallurgy

before 1889

Hollow hemisphere of mild steel, manufactured at L

Metallurgy

1886

Gold from 770 grains of lead

Metallurgy

before 1889

Light coke, from the South Staffordshire thick coa

Metallurgy

before 1889

Kelvin's electrostatic voltmeter by White, 1892-18

Electricity and Magnetism

1892-1899

Langloan pig-iron, communicated by Mr. Davis

Metallurgy

before 1889

Chemical laboratory

Mabel Tregaskis Sara

1897

Votive offering in anthropomorphic form to goddess Mata

Asian Medicine

1898-1899

Receiving ‘jigger’ used by the Marconi Company, 1898

Radio Communication

1898

Frames from Incident Outside Clovelly Cottage

Cinematography

February 1895

Specimen of steel produced by the Basic or Thomas-

Metallurgy

1887

A portion of brick made by the Chinese on the Bend

Metallurgy

before 1889

Band of copper ore known as "Oberberge," at Sanger

Metallurgy

before 1889

Iron ores from Algeria

Metallurgy

before 1889

Vulcanite cigar holder with amber mouthpiece, in c

Smoking

1894-1895

Copper nickel ore, from the mines of Mr. Ascham at

Metallurgy

before 1889

Oil engine, made by Crossley B

Motive Power

c.1900

Wooden model of footstep bearing for a water turbine

Kinematics

1890

Camera Lucida by Lechertier Barbe, Paris, France,

Optics

1890-1900

Brush iron ore, Forest of Dean

Metallurgy

before 1889

Teignmouth clay, Devonshire. It is used as an ingr

Metallurgy

before 1889

Glass jar, pale green, cylindrical body tapering t

Medical Glass-ware

601-1900

Refinery slag from an unknown locality

Metallurgy

before 1889

Result of an experiment on the combination of iron

Metallurgy

before 1889

Timer for gas street lamp

Gas Industry

c.1900

Alloy of silver

Metallurgy

before 1889

Card Sample Display Case

Textile Industry

c.1900

Gas cooker and kettle stand

Gas Industry

1897

Armstrong typewriter, model No. 8, c. 1902

Printing & Writing

c. 1902

Copper sheathing from HMS Apollo

Metallurgy

before 1889

Nickel regulus, produced at Birmingham, analysed b

Metallurgy

before 1889

Meteoric iron, rusted portion reduced by carbonic

Metallurgy

before 1889

Northampton iron ore, used at Dowlais Iron Works,

Metallurgy

before 1889

Piece of an old cannon ball taken out of Falmouth

Metallurgy

before 1889

Nodular form of the Pennystone, Madeley, Shropshir

Metallurgy

before 1889

Electromagnetic machine, Dr. Hearder's, vertical c

Therapeutics

1900

Alloy of 40 copper and 60 antimony

Metallurgy

before 1889

Bi-focal spectacle lens

Optics

1899

Mosque lamp, 1900

Lighting

1900

Mercury interrupter, cylinder of iron in 2 section

Therapeutics

1900

Copper amalgam

Metallurgy

before 1889

Hydraulic accumulator, 1900

Mechanical Power Transmission

1900

Elbow projection polariscope

Optics

1890-1900

Briar tobacco pipe, silver joint band, vulcanite m

Smoking

1895-1898

Glass jar, contains gum resin from the Sudan, pres

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1886

Decorative carbon-filament lig

Lighting

c.1900