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L&YR locomotive, number 1008

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1889

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

Electronic Components

1889

The Demon Detective camera

Photographic Technology

1889

Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

Textile Industry

1889

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

Electronic Components

1889

Spark gap or knob coherer, 1889

Radio Communication

1889

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

Electronic Components

1889

Lancashire Boiler

Motive Power

1889

Alloy of 90 copper and 10 tin. A bronze

Metallurgy

before 1889

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Faraday's Disc Electrical Generator

Electricity and Magnetism

1889

Key which has lain for some time in the bed of the Thames

Metallurgy

before 1889
active 1928-1954, laboratory apparatus; laboratory instrument maker, London, England

Griffin and Tatlock Limited

1889 - 1999

Model of an Egyptian boat in XII Dynasty Tomb

Water Transport

1991-1783 BCE

Lead obtained from the smelting of coarsely powdered galena, "Schliegwerkeblei"

Metallurgy

before 1889

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

Bog iron ore from old lake deposits in Holland

Metallurgy

before 1889

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE

Carbonate of lead, "cerussite," from the Evening Star Mine, Leadville, Colorado

Metallurgy

before 1889

Kodak No. 2 Camera, 1889

Photography

1889

Black glassy slag for crushing and washing

Metallurgy

before 1889

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1991-1786 BCE

Orpiment from France

Metallurgy

before 1889

Copy of model of a sheep's liver. Original Babylonian, c. 2050-1750 BC.

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

Samples of crystals used in the development of ASDIC transducers, 1917-1918

Acoustics

1917-918

Bog iron ore from Olfen, Westphalia

Metallurgy

before 1889

Copper ore from the Bell Mine

Metallurgy

before 1889

Adamantine boron, prepared and communicated by H. St. Clair Deville

Metallurgy

before 1889

Natural graphite from Ceylon, for making " black-lead" crucibles

Metallurgy

before 1889

Mummy of a crocodile, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Ordinary copper ore from Alderley Edge, Cheshire

Metallurgy

before 1889

Beck Field camera

Photographic Technology

c. 1889

Clay ironstone cemented in charcoal

Metallurgy

before 1889

Coal from the Albion Mines

Metallurgy

before 1889

Ballast pig-iron from Portsmouth Dockyard

Metallurgy

before 1889

Product of the first process of tin refining. From the Mellanear Tin Smelting Works

Metallurgy

before 1889
1889-1957, manufacturer of comptometers, Chicago, United States

Felt and Tarrant Manufacturing Company

1889 - 1957
1889-1926, camera and cinema equipment manufacturer, Dresden, Germany

Ernemann Werke

1889 - 1926

Square bar of steel tilted from ingot no.2 at welding heat

Metallurgy

before 1889

Northampton iron ore showing the origin of the ferric oxide by the weathering of the carbonate

Metallurgy

before 1889

Silver dollar of Charles II of Spain, struck in Mexico, 1781

Metallurgy

before 1889

Foundry furnace slag produced at the Royal Marienhutte Iron Works

Metallurgy

before 1889

Incrustation of zinc oxide from the Halsbrucke Furnace, Germany

Metallurgy

before 1889

Counterfeit British coin

Metallurgy

before 1889

Raw roasted black copper, "Rohrost-Schwarzkupfer"

Metallurgy

before 1889

Gold from 2,000 grains of lead obtained from litharge

Metallurgy

before 1889

Northampton iron ore, used at the Dowlais Iron Works, 1870

Metallurgy

before 1889

Best selected copper, melted under charcoal and cast into an ingot mould

Metallurgy

before 1889

Cobalt and nickel speiss

Metallurgy

before 1889

Nickel regulus

Metallurgy

before 1889