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Photograph entitled 'The Forth Bridge. Fife Main Pier from N.' taken by Evelyn George Carey, 6 July 1888. Albumen print. The photograph shows one of the cantilever sections under construction for the Forth Railway Bridge at South Queensferry, Scotland.

The Forth Bridge. Fife Main Pier from N.

Photographs

1888-07-06

Map, system, Great Western Railway, 'Superintendents Division', May 1888, 8 miles to 1 inch, printed by Thos. Kell & Son, coloured, paper-backed linen, card cover.

Map, system, Great Western Railway, 'Superintendents Divisio

Railway Maps & Plans

1888

Dr Mary Schalieb's M.D. gown, by Ede, Son, and Ravencroft, London, 1888

Dr Mary Schalieb's M.D. gown, London, England, 1888

Surgery

1888

Metal before lens shutter, for 60mm lens tube, metal plate slides up and down, spring tensioned adjustment slow to fast numbers 1-6 and time. Pneumatic release valve. Perken, Son and Rayment, 1888.

Optimus plunge shutter

Photographic Technology

1888

Branch fuse, slate base, 1888.

Branch fuse, slate base, 1888

Electricity Supply

1888

Sheet from The Graphic newspaper, 8 September 1888: A Family Cruise Through the Norfolk Waterways...from sketches by "The Skipper".

A Family Cruise Through the Norfolk Waterways...

Photographs

1888-09-08

Tunbridge Wells Amateur Photogrpahic Association silver medal, awarded J E Austin, 'Genre'.

Tunbridge Wells Amateur Photogrpahic Association silver medal

Printed Materials & Ephemera

1888

Dunlop pneumatic cycle tyre of 1888, fitted to rim without spokes.

Pneumatic cycle tyre

Road Transport

1888

Rivetting machine, hydraulic, designed by William Arrol for use during construction of the Forth railway bridge, c1888.

Hydraulic rivetting machine

Tools of the Trade & Personal Accessories

1888

Muirhead Clark standard cell

Electricity and Magnetism

1888

(Lord Kelvin) Thomson's centi-ampere balance from 1 to 50 centi-amperes, made by J. White, Glasgow, 1888. Box contains sliding weights counterpoises, thermometer reading glass, and other accessory apparatus for use with the above.

Thomson Type Current Balance, 1888

Electricity and Magnetism

1888

Copper medal, prize awarded to E. Rivet, artist E. Dubois, medal French, 1888

Copper medal, prize awarded to E. Rivet, artist E.

Wellcome Medals

1888

E Paterson Ayrton and Perry's polarized iron ammeter, in wooden case, c. 1888

ammeter

Electricity Supply

c. 1888

Silver medal with obverse by Oscar Roty, commemorating Louis Pasteur and Pasteur Institute, French, 1888

Silver medal with obverse by Oscar Roty, commemora

Wellcome Medals

1888

Map, showing system, Great Northern Railway, 1888, 8 miles to 1 inch, published/printed by Thos. Kell & Son, paper-backed linen, leather cover.

Map, showing system, Great Northern Railway, 1888, 8 miles t

Railway Maps & Plans

1888

Clifton's electrometer

Electricity and Magnetism

1888

Brass steam whistle and operating lever of W Stroudley's design from London, Brighton & South coast Railway locomotive No 194 'Bickersteth', 1888 (Gladstone Class).

Brass steam whistle, London, Brighton & South Coast Railway Locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1888

Coloured plan on linen of proposed extension to Armley Station. Tabled at the Way & Works Committee as part of Minute No. 9161, Oct. 1888. The scheme was recommended for adoption by the General Purposes Committee in Nov. 1888.

1888 plan of proposed extension to Armley Station

Railway Maps & Plans

1888

Fiberous component from the three wheeled motor car, by Benz, Paris, France, 1888. In crystal box

Fiberous component from the three wheeled Benz motor car

Road Transport

1888

Photograph of the Pleides star cluster with nebulosity (M45), taken by Isaac Roberts using a twin telescope (20-inch reflector & 7-inch refractor) by Howard Grubb of Dublin. Taken with an exposure of 4 hours on 8th December 1888 at his observatory & home at Maghull, near Liverpool.

Photograph of the Pleides star cluster with nebulo

Astronomy

1888

Tablespoon, silver plated, Great Western Railway, made by Elkington & Co, Birmingham, 1888; GWR monogram, (BTH 103W). Overall: 25 mm x 220 mm x 47 mm, 0.08kg.

Silver plated tablespoon, Great Western Railway

Passenger Comforts

1888

The 'International' folding bellows tailboard field or stand camera for negatives 4 3/4 x 6 1/2. With double extension, leather bellows, swing and reversing back, rising front and cross movement. Fitted with a symmetrical F.II 8" f.1 mounted in a scissor type shutter. Made of mahogany with brass fittings. Lancaster c.1885

The 'International' folding bellows tailboard field or stand camera

Photographic Technology

1888

Patent Instantograph camera by J. Lancaster & Son; with double dark slide and canvas case, 1888.

Patent Instantograph camera

Photographic Technology

1888

Dr Mary Scharlieb's MD, hood, 1888, London, by Ede, Son, and Ravencroft

Dr Mary Scharlieb's academic gown hood, London, 1888

Surgery

1888

Melloni's apparatus by Elliott Bros., London, England, 1888. Comprising cast iron bed with three sliding uprights and one upright with radial arm carrying two sliding pillars and a counterweight, plus various accessory apparatus: Locatelli's lamp and reflector, spirit lamp with cover on sliding base, reflector with hook and platinum spiral for heat source, thermopile with double cone and with two caps, line thermopile, plain screen, hinged screen, screen with aperture disc, double screen, black mirror, Leslie's cube with holder, copper hood heat source, two plates of rock salt in glass container, glass cell, angled mica plates in fixed mount, angled mica plates in rotatable mount, mica plates fixed perpendicular to the radiation in rotatable mount, mica plates in frame for varying angle of incliation to the radiation, wooden clamp, and wooden table.

Melloni's apparatus for demonstrating properties of infrared radiation

Heat

1888

Silver gelatin photograph by George Davison, mounted on card. Titled 'Group at Ferry House', this image was displayed in the Photographic Society of India Exhibition in January 1888.

Group at Ferry House

Photographs

1888

Vintage silver gelatin print by George Davison, mounted on card. Titled "Fine New 'Errin'", this image was displayed at the Photographic Society of Great Britain Exhibition in 1886, and at the Photographic Society of India Exhibition in 1888 as "Fine Fresh Herring"..

Fine New 'Errin'

Photographs

1888

Silver gelatin photograph by George Davison, mounted on card. Titled "A Village Street", this photograph was displayed at the Vienna International Photographic Exhibition of 1888.

A Village Street

Photographs

1888

Decoudun exposure meter. Disc form for ordinary rapidity gelatino bromide plates. Rotating disc with 16 apertures of increasing density marked A-P. Scale of exposure times. (M1026)

Decoudun exposure meter

Photographic Technology

1888

Two pieces of skull showing cauterisation scars, probably neolithic with photograph of similar, French, 2000BC(?)-1000BC(?)

Two pieces of skull showing cauterisation scars

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

2000-1000 BCE

Silver-plated bronze medal to commemorate the Grand Concours International des Sciences et de l'Industrie, Brussels, 1888, by A. Fisch, 1888

Silver-plated bronze medal to commemorate the Gran

Wellcome Medals

1888

Baillie sounder, 1888

Oceanography

1888

Additional needle for Elliott sine and tangent galvanometer

Additional needle for sine and tangent galvanometer

Electricity and Magnetism

1888

Bronze medal, Institut Pasteur, with portrait of Pasteur, France, 1888, O. Roty artist

Bronze medal, Institut Pasteur, with portrait of P

Wellcome Medals

1888

Two circular components with two rubber bands, from the three wheeled motor car, by Benz, Paris, France, 1888. In crystal box

Two circular components with two rubber bands from the three wheeled Benz motor car

Road Transport

1888

medal, bronze, commemorating founding of first childrens convalescent home in Weidlingau, German, 1888

medal, bronze, commemorating founding of first chi

Wellcome Medals

1888

Abney type colour photometer with rotating sector apparatus by Adam Hilger, London, 1888. commercial version of photometer used by Sir William de Wiveleslie Abney and Major-General E. R. Festing in their researches.

Abney type colour photometer with rotating sector

Optics

1888

Mummy, infant female, said to be Egyptian, 3000-1000 BCE (see note).

Mummified remains, ancient Egyptian or Peruvian

Classical & Medieval Medicine

3000-1000 BCE

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Sea Urchins

NSMM

1888

Vintage silver gelatin print by George Davison, mounted on card. Image shows a middy river bank at low tide. This image was displayed in the Photographic Society of Great Britain Exhibition of 1888 and in the Midland Counties Exhibition of 1889.

The Dying Day

Photographs

1888

Silver gelatin photograph by George Davison, mounted on card. Titled "Three Old Men of Rye", the image shows three elderly fishermen on the deck of a fishing boat. This photograph was exhibited at the Photographic Society of India exhibition on January 17, 1888.

Three Old Men of Rye

Photographs

1888

Vintage silver gelatin print by George Davison, mounted on card. Image titled "Sea Urchins". Two boys play on a muddy river bank by the remains of a beached paddle steamer. The third boy looks down from his vantage point on the wreck. This photograph was shown in the Oldham Exhibition of 1888.

Sea Urchins

Photographs

1888

Reckenzaun's meter, 1888

Electricity Supply

1888

Information card for ‘The McInnes-Dobbie steam and gas engine indicators’, by McInnes-Dobbie Limited, London, England. One side shows diagrams of numerous types of steam and gas engine indicators, the other is instructions for the use of indicator, this relates to the Balsa triangular component (1905-30/4)

Information card for ‘The McInnes-Dobbie steam and gas engine indicators’

Motive Power

1888 (design date)

Siemens obach galvanometer, 1875-83

Electricity and Magnetism

1888

Puluj electric radiometer

Electricity and Magnetism

1888

Top section of branch fuse with two grooves running parallel along the width. The top also has a small hole in the middle.

Top section of branch fuse

Electricity Supply

1888

"Napier's Rods" in case with descriptive leaflet, arranged by J. Blater; published by Trubner & Co. 1888

"Napier's Rods" in case with descriptive leaflet,

Mathematics

1888

Map, Railway Clearing House, Scotland, 1888, coloured, published by J Airey, Railway Clearing House.

Map, Railway Clearing House, Scotland, 1888, coloured, publi

Railway Maps & Plans

1888

Model showing the mode of development of skew bevel wheels

Model showing the mode of development of skew beve

Kinematics

1888