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Wise's patent train staff

Signalling & Telecommunications

1886

Spirograph and examples of patterns drawn using it

Mathematics

1886

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

'Manchester' dynamo, around 1886.

Electricity Supply

c.1886

Miner's Safety Electric Lamp, 1886

Mining & Ore Dressing

1886

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE

Crossley Horizontal Single-cylinder Engine

Motive Power

1886

Hollow hemisphere of mild steel, manufactured at L

Metallurgy

1886

Glass jar, contains gum resin from the Sudan, pres

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1886

Coradi planimeter and map, 1886.

Mathematics

1886

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

Building Construction

2000-1001 BCE

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

William Friese-Greene: Analysis of Motion Experiment

Cinematography

c 1886

Dallmeyer Landscape Lens

Photographic Technology

1886

'Manchester' dynamo, made by Mather & Platt Ltd

Electricity Supply

c.1886

Cased set of weights

Weighing & Measuring

c. 1886

Bishop James Fraser Commemorative Plate

Local History

1886

Uterine probe, Playfair, aluminium

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1901-950

'Columbia' typewriter, 1886.

Printing & Writing

1886

Sinclair line selector automatic switch board, 1886

Telecommunications

1886

Mummy of a crocodile, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1991-1786 BCE

Model of Continental microscope having lever adjus

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1886

Set of bankers' weights, weighing 500 sovereigns to half a sovereign

Weighing & Measuring

1886

Composite plate of iron and steel, manufactured by

Metallurgy

1886

Original experimental secohmmeter of Ayrton & Perr

Electricity and Magnetism

1886

Bertin commutator

Electricity and Magnetism

1886

Pressure-plate anemometer (canvas sail acting on s

Meteorology

1886

Caddow Quilt

Textile Industry

1886

Terrestial globe showing magnetic meridians c.1880

Navigation

1886
Fireman's helmet, North Eastern Railway, leather and brass, used by the Fire Brigade formed on the 22nd September 1886 at West Hartlepool. '6 1/2' written inside. Overall: 225 mm x 180 mm x 310 mm.

Fireman's helmet - North Eastern Railway

Railway Uniform & Costume

1886
Milk jug, silver plated, by Elkington & Co, 1886 Great Central Railway, curved sides with decorative engraving, "GT CENTRAL RY" with GCR coat of arms engraved below spout

Silver plated milk jug, Great Central Railway

Passenger Comforts

1886

Dallmeyer Rectilinear Lens

Photographic Technology

1886

Kreusler's fat extraction apparatus and stand

Experimental Chemistry

1886

Bakers calorimeter double form

Heat

1886

Beamscale, in mahogany and glass case

Weighing & Measuring

c. 1886
Window glass, Great Western Railway, framed, etched, 'GWR Llangeinor 1886'.

Window glass from Great Western Railway

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1886

Wheelwright's dowel or rung rounding plane. Marked

Hand and Machine Tools

1886

yarn scale

Textile Industry

1886

Memorial stele to the doorkeepr Ruma

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Philips' Planisphere, ten inch model, 1886

Astronomy

1886

Solar Corona 1886 August 29, Grenada, W.J. glass t

Astronomy

1886
Stirn waistcoast detective camera, made by C.P. Stirn Photographische Camera, Berlin. DRP 38391. Circular metal camera for 14cm diameter plater, 6 pictures 4cm diamter. RR type lens, fixed focus aperture, roating shutter T or I, cord or direct release. Original wind on knob and pointer missing. Neck cord. Back retained by single knob. Brown enamel finish.

Stirn waistcoast detective camera

Photographic Technology

1886
Egg cup stand with four egg cups, silver plated, by Walker & Hall, North Eastern Railway, engraved 'presented to T James by the NE loco workmen of Tebay May 1886'.

Four silver plated egg cups on stand, North Eastern Railway - presented to T James

Passenger Comforts

1886

Silver lancet case, empty

Therapeutics

1886

Gas regulator: Tollen's form

Heat

1886
Locomotive cabside number plate, brass, Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway No 29, 4-4-0, built by Beyer Peacock & Co, 1886, withdrawn c1933

Cabside number plate, Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1886
Spandrel, Midland & Great Northern Railway, cast iron, interlocking initials, ex South Lynn Station, opened 1st January 1886, closed 2nd March 1959.

Cast iron spandrel, Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1886
Spandrel, Midland & Great Northern Railway, cast iron, interlocking initials, ex South Lynn Station, opened 1st January 1886, closed 2nd March 1959.

Cast iron spandrel, Midland & Great Northern Joint Railway

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1886

Turnswitch with fuse (wire), c.1886 [lacks cover]

Electricity Supply

1886