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Great Northern Railway brake van

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1887

Steam locomotive and tender, Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, 18" gauge 0-4-0T "Wren", built at Horwich Works in 1887, withdrawn 1962.

Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway locomotive, Wren

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1887

active 1887 -1920s?, manufacturer of leather goods, picnic baskets and silver, London, ENgland

Drew and Sons

1887 - 1935

Model which represents the paddle steamers "Queen Victoria" and the ''Prince of Wales''

Water Transport

1887

active 1887-1979, laboratory apparatus & instrument maker, Glasgow, Scotland

Baird and Tatlock Limited

1887 - 1979

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

Graphophone record cylinder

Sound Reproduction

1887

Mummy of a crocodile, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Set of 11 coins for Queen Victoria's Jubilee

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1887

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE

Arrow used with the Original Boys' Bow for Shooting Quartz Fibres, 1887

Heat

1887

Chimney pot, Great Western Railway, cast iron, cast at Wolverhampton in 1887, ex Newport Dock Street.

Cast iron chimney pot, Great Western Railway

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1887

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1991-1786 BCE

Barlow & Jones Limited Wove

Textile Industry

1887

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

Building Construction

2000-1001 BCE

Leclanché battery

Electricity and Magnetism

1887

Uterine probe, Playfair, aluminium

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1901-950

Window glass, framed, etched, commemorating Queen Victoria's Jubilee Year, 1837-1887, no provenance.

Framed window glass commemorating Queen Victoria's jubilee, 1837-1888

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1887

Chimney pot, Great Western Railway, cast iron, cast at Wolverhampton in 1887, no provenance.

Cast iron chimney pot, Great Western Railway

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1887

Fencing

Cinematography

1887

Memorial stele to the doorkeepr Ruma

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Swan United Electric Light Co.

Lighting

c. 1887

Arrow used with Original Boys' bow for Shooting Quartz Fibres, 1887

Heat

1887

Generating Set with Willans Compound Engine, 1887

Motive Power

1887

Four inch long specimen Porthcurno shore end cable

Telecommunications

1887

Drawing prism for use with microscope, by W. Watso

Optics

1887

Glass bottle for Lockwood's American hair restorer

Medical Glass-ware

c. 1887

120x155mm ferrotype group portrait of the Hughes and Nelson families Captain Hughes drowned when the SS 'Leonowi' was lost round the Cape of Good Hope, c. 1887.

Uncased Ferrotype

Photographs

c. 1887

Ammeter graduated to 100 amperes

Electricity and Magnetism

1887

Railway carriage, Great Western Railway, tri-composite, six-wheeled, No 820, built in 1887.

Tri-composite railway carriage

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1887

Burt's Slide Rule

Industrial Metrology

1887 patent

Jumping, standing broad jump

Cinematography

1887

Clay figure of animal

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1000 BCE

Model 6 lever McKenzie and Holland Cam and Tappet signal locking frame 1887 (scale 1:4).

model 6-lever mckenzie & holland signal frame

Railway Models

1887

P and O

Vanity Fair

1887

Chromolithographs with gilt: trade adverts for Mac

Art

1887

The "Marvel" Geometric Compass

Art

1887

1887-ca. 1942, designer; carver, Andorran

Fornells i Marco, Eduard

1887 - 1942

1887-1961, physicist, Austrian

Schrödinger, Erwin

1887 - 1961

1887-1951, graphic designer; poster artist, British; English

Newbould, Frank

1887 - 1951

1887-1912, battleship, British

HMS Trafalgar (1887)

1887 - 1912

1887-1956, aircraft manufacturer, English; British

Fairey, Sir Richard

1887 - 1956

1887-1960, poster artist, British

Ayling, George

1887 - 1960

Lever watch with pin-pallet escapement. Dial, case and movement marked "Roskopf Patent, Swiss made", Georges Frederic Roskopf, Switzerland, 1887

Lever watch with pin-escapement, case and movement

Time Measurement

1887

1887-1976, artist, English; British

Lowry, Laurence Stephen

1887 - 1976

1887-1922, railway company, Isle of Wight

Isle of Wight Central Railway

1887 - 1922

Wallis, Barnes Neville

1887 - 1979

1887-1941 or 1948, poster designer; artist; landscape artist, British

Brown, F Gregory

1887 - 1948

1887-1915, physicist, Oxford University, British

Moseley, Henry Gwyn Jeffreys

1887 - 1915