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Hand bill. Lecture tour on popular science Ed. Pil

Art

1888

Model steam locomotive,1/8 scale, North London Railway 4-4-0 T No.60, in glazed painted case with coin-in-the-slot electric drive rig, model and prototype built at NLR Bow Works by J.C. Park, London, 1888, exhibited in Paris in 1889, ex LNWR exhibition collection and London Broad Street Station Concourse.

north london locomotive

Railway Models

1888

Twilight and afterglow effects at Chelsea

The Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company

1888

Twilight and afterglow effects at Chelsea

The Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company

1888

Wooden model, scale 1:2, of axle box for rolling stock

Railway Models

1888

Model 4 lever Saxby Duplex Plunger Signal locking frame, 1888 pattern (scale 1:4).

model signal lever frame - saxby

Railway Models

1888

Chromolithograph. Vanity Fair Portrait of: Dalby,

Art

1888

Model ground signal, scale 1:16, North London Railway Ground Signal, 1888.

Model ground signal, North London Railway

Railway Models

1888

Twilight and afterglow effects at Chelsea

The Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company

1888

Carte de Visite photograph. Sir John Lubbock.

Art

1888

Lithograph: La Tour Merveilleuse

Art

1888

Telephones [James Brand]

Liborio Prosperi

1888

active 1888-1920s, electrical measuring instruments (light meters etc), New Jersey, United States

Weston Electrical Instrument Company

1888

1888-1959, graphic designer; poster artist, British; English

Purvis, Tom

1888 - 1959

1888-either after 1951 or 1960, artist; painter; poster artist, British

Broadhead, W Smithson

1888 - 1960

1888-1946, television engineer, entrepreneur, Scottish; British

Baird, John Logie

1888 - 1946

Electric Construction Co. Ltd

1888 - 1985

1888-1959, poster artist; artist; painter, British

Nicoll, Gordon

1888 - 1959

1888-1971, medical scientist; inventor, American

Rife, Royal Raymond

1888 - 1971

1888-1970, painter; sculptor, English; British

Wheatley, Edith Grace

1888 - 1970

1888-1989, engineer; airman, British; English

Sopwith, Sir Thomas

1888 - 1989

1888-1939, camera manufacturer, Altrincham

Thornton-Pickard Manufacturing Company

1888 - 1939

1888-1965, artist, Greek-born, active in America

Bagdatopoulos, William Spencer

1888 - 1965

Two models (1:16 scale) of agricultural implements found in the Theban necropolis, XVI 11th Dynasty, 2000-1500 BC. Mounted together on a plaster base.

Two models (1:16 scale) of agricultural implements found in the Theban necropolis

Agricultural Engineering

2000-1500 BCE

Bronze medal commemorating Franz Cornelius Donders, Dutch ophthalmologist, on his death in 1888, made by L. Junger and artists J. P. M. Menger and W. Schammer, Netherlands, 1888.

Bronze medal commemorating Franz Cornelius Donders

Wellcome Medals

1888

Singer tricycle c. 1888 (no saddle). An early example of the handle-bar steered, chain-driven type of machine still in made today. There is a differential drum on the rear axle. This differential allows the wheels to rotate at different speeds when cornering.

'Singer' tricycle

Road Transport

1888

1888-1960, painter; sculptor, British

Kennington, Eric H

1888 - 1960

Thornton-Pickard Ltd

1888 - 1939

1888-1969, Chief Engineer fof London & North Eastern Railway, England, Scottish

Train, Sir John Cumberland Landale

1888 - 1969

1888-1965 railway company, 1979-present, heritage railway, Embsay

Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway

1888 - 1965

1888-1966, instrument maker, British

King, Arthur Charles

1888 - 1966

1888-1950, poster artist, British

Macdowell, William

1888 - 1950

Gale and Polden Limited

1888 - 1963

active 1880s-1893, gas engine manufacturer; gas engineers, Albion Works, Gospel Oak, Camden, London, England, British

British Gas Engine Company Limited

1888 - 1893

1888-1900, railway company, England, United Kingdom

Birmingham & Henley in Arden Railway

1888 - 1900

Baird, John Logie

1888 - 1946

1888-1986, anaesthetist; physician, Anglo-Irish

Magill, Sir Ivan Whiteside

1888 - 1986

1888-1957, United States Naval Officer; aviator; polar explorer, American

Byrd, Richard Evelyn

1888 - 1957

1888-1899, signal manufacturer, British

Dutton and Company

1888 - 1899

Macpherson, Hector Copland

1888 - 1956

1888-1986, painter; designer; illustrator; architect, American

Bonestell, Chesley

1888 - 1986

Robinson, Bernard A

1888 - 1979

1888-1964, songwriter; music publisher, British

Wright, Lawrence

1888 - 1964

1892-, printer, publisher, Aldershot

Gale and Polden Limited

1888 - 1963

1888-1889, railway company, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Glasgow Central Railway

1888 - 1889

1888-1948, active 1930-1940, poster artist, British

Byatt, Edwin

1888 - 1948

William Allsup and Sons, Limited

1888 - 1908

1888-current (2011), manufacturer of tyres, rubber goods and industrial equipment, United Kingdom

Dunlop

1888

Materia medica chest, by Southall's, Birmingham, 1888

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1888

Kodak box camera for cartridge film 2 1/2" diameter, 100 exposures. Detective camera. With periscope lens of f.l 57mm. With rotating horizontal cylinder type shutter with time and inst. fixed speed. Shutter wound by string on top of the body. Made of wood and covered with Turkey Morroco leather. c. 1888

The Kodak box camera

Photographic Technology

1888