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Midland Railway composite carriage

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1885

Rover 'Safety' bicycle, 1885

Road Transport

1885

West Coast Joint Stock postal sorting van No 186, 1885

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1885

Spagnoletti intermediate signalling instrument

Signalling & Telecommunications

1885

Genaille's rods', French, 1885.

Mathematics

1885

Francis Norris Adams

Photographs

c. 1885

textbook which belonged to Ernest Rutherford

Nuclear Physics

1885

Rocking microtome, Cambridge, England, 1885

Microscopes

1885

Stone slab with seven holes for cosmetic ointments, Egypt, 1991-1786 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1991-1786 BCE

Mummy of a crocodile, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

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

Building Construction

2000-1001 BCE

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE

Twin reflecting and refracting telescopes on observatory mounting, 1885

Astronomy

1885

Genaille's rods

Mathematics

1885

Set of Genaille's rods for division. French, c. 18

Mathematics

1885
Three bars of mild steel, tied cold, at the Steel Company of Scotland's Works, Glasgow, manufactured by Siemens' process, 1885, communicated by J. Riley

Three bars of mild steel tied cold, 1885

Metallurgy

1885

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Specimen bottle of leaves of Rhus toxicodendron (p

Medical Glass-ware

1885

gas griller

Gas Industry

c.1885

Gas cooker

Gas Industry

c.1885

Sperm oil hub lamp for bicycles,

Road Transport

1885

Jug commemorating 'Rocket' locomotive

Liverpool & Manchester Railway

c. 1885

Solar Corona 1885, Sept 9 Wellington N.Z., glass t

Astronomy

1885

Piece of sheet steel after cutting out the blanks

Metallurgy

1885

Beckley anemograph recorder

Meteorology

1885

Half-plate bellows tailboard c

Photographic Technology

c.1885; c.1870; c1870

Uterine probe, Playfair, aluminium

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1901-950

S Z de Ferranti AC electric me

Electricity Supply

1885

Apparatus for giving alarm on the rise or fall of

Heat

1885

Contact goniometer

Optics

1885

Electric light switch, 1885

Electricity Supply

1885

Cast iron used for plough-shares, from Fowler and

Metallurgy

1885

Memorial stele to the doorkeepr Ruma

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

International Inventions Exhibition

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1885

Silver International Inventions Exhibition medal,1885

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1885

Telephone transmitter

Telecommunications

c.1885

Granular carbon-type telephone transmitter

Telecommunications

c. 1885

One of two boxed sets of Genaille's rods, 1885: "r

Mathematics

1885

Twelve tuning forks with ivory hammer

Acoustics

1885
Mantel clock presented to T.W. Worsdell on the occasion of his retirement as Superintendent of the locomotive & Carriage Department, Great Eastern Railway, 5th August 1885.

Mantel clock, presented to T.W. Worsdell - Great Eastern Railway

Railway Timepieces

c.1885

Adie Telemeter used in east coast survey, England

Surveying

1885

Kew standard mercury in glass thermometer, standar

Heat

1885

Component of Adie telemeter

Surveying

1885
Astronomical refracting telescope of 3 3/4 inch aperture and 58 inch focal length by T. Cooke and Sons, York, on an altazimuth mounting with mahogany stand.

instrument component; telescope - refracting

Astronomy

1885
Astronomical refracting telescope of 3 3/4 inch aperture and 58 inch focal length by T. Cooke and Sons, York, on an altazimuth mounting with mahogany stand and wooden case for the telescope tube. Accessories include 2 eyepieces, 2 solar filters, solar wedge wedge (Herschel). A circulation instrument from the Science & Arts Department for use by teachers and dated January 1885.

Astronomical refracting telescope of 3 3/4 inch ap

Astronomy

1885

Theury's five-body microscope, 1885

Microscopes

1885

Students microscope signed "R & J Beck, London No.

Microscopes

1885

Pocket micrometer

Industrial Metrology

c. 1885
Ring contact switch. A switch with eight contacts

Ring contact switch

Electricity Supply

1885