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Birtac 17.5mm Camera/Projector

Cinematography

1898

Ensign Optiscope Number 6 projector

Cinematography

c. 1905

Steam locomotive, number 1217, Great Eastern Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1905

Photograph of a radiograph of hand taken by Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, Germany, 1895

Radiomedicine

1895

Brown & Sharpe automatic lathe

Hand and Machine Tools

c. 1897

Merryweather manual fire engine

Firefighting

1898-1902

Karl Ferdinand Braun's 'Braun tube', 1897

Electronic Components

1897

Poster, Great Western Railway, See Your Own Country First

Railway Posters, Notices & Handbills

1908

Bowl of Briar tobacco pipe, "Masta" patent, 1902-1904

Smoking

1902-1904

'Magic' marmalade cutter

Domestic Appliances

c. 1904

Animatograph camera by Robert Paul

Cinematography

1895-1909

Motor fire engine with Hatfield pump made by Merryweather and Sons

Firefighting

1904

Vertical Steam Engine, 1891

Motive Power

1891

Wright, Elsie

1901 - 1988

first patient to receive insulin injections

Thompson, Leonard

1908 - 1935

Skegness is SO Bracing

Railway Posters, Notices & Handbills

c.1908

Electromagnetic (e/m) cathode ray tube, by Sir Joseph John Thomson, Cambridge, England, 1896. Part of the J.J. Thomson's original e/m cathode ray tube apparatus, for measuring the velocity of the cathode rays and the ratio of the mass of the carriers to the charge carried by them.

J J Thomson's Electromagnetic Tube used in the Discovery of the Electron, about 1896

Nuclear Physics

1896

W Butcher magic lantern

Cinematography

1900

Hertzian oscillator, 1894

Radio Communication

1894

Medicine chest, style 251, by Burroughs Wellcome and Company Limited, London, England, 1910. Supplied to the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910 (Wellcome ref R.165). The chest has a hinged lid with two fold-out compartments. Printed inscriptions on the sides read 'Burroughs Wellcome & Co.' and, on the reverse, 'British Antarctic Expedition 1910'. Burroughs Wellcome and Company Limited, English, c. 1910.

Medicine chest used by Captain Scott

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1910

Goerz Anschutz Press Camera

Photographic Technology

1895-1905

The Grange (Mr Cutlack's house), Littleport

Photographs

1902-12-17

'Orthometre', eye measuring device for criminal identification system, Paris, France, 1895

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1895

Short's 'Filoscope' Flip Book 'The Train'

Cinematography

1897

Harmonograph by Newton, 1909.

Mathematics

1909

Quadruple expansion launch steam engine of the condensing type

Marine Engines

1898

Horn for Edison 'Fireside' phonograph, c.1909

Sound Reproduction

1909

1895-1980s, manufacturer of medicinal lozenges, England

Iron Jelloids Company Limited

1895

Demi-Mail phaeton

Art

1903

Oak funeral bier donated to the parish of Shrivenham by Rear Admiral Sir Charles Dury in memory of his late wife, Frances Ellen Whitehead

Road Transport

1900

Moy and Bastie 35m Patent Cinematograph Camera

Cinematography

1909-1910

Kinora viewer

Cinematography

c. 1908

Packaging for the No 1 Brownie Model B camera

Photographic Technology

c. 1908

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE

Edison Kinetophone (or Phonokinetoscope); Kinetoscope with cylinder phonograph, an early attempt at creating a sound-film system; early motion picture exhibition device, designed for films to be viewed individually through an aperture on the top of the cabinet.

Edison Kinetophone (or Phonokinetoscope)

Cinematography

1894

Tin of amyl nitrite capsules, London, England, 1910

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1910

Werner Motor Cycle, 1899

Road Transport

1899

Urban Bioscope 35mm cine camera

Cinematography

c. 1910

Alembic and cucurbit in blue glass, Isfahan, Iran

Experimental Chemistry

1900

A Singer model 66 lock stitch oscillating hook sewing machin

Textiles Machinery

1908-1909

Chemical balance

Weighing & Measuring

1895-1905

Optical bench demonstration model of telescope and

Science Teaching

1895-1905

No. 1 Brownie Box Camera

Photographic Technology

1900-1905

Griffiths, Frances

1907 - 1986

Double focus X-ray tube

Radiomedicine

1896

Photographic negative of electrical discharge

Photography

1892

Edison "Home" phonograph, Model A with accessories, 1898

Sound Reproduction

1898

Marks Tey Station With Mr L Sydney Bracher

Photographs

1899-06-06

Electrostatic Generator

Electricity and Magnetism

1895-1905

Plaster Surface Model by Alexander Crum Brown, c 1900.

Mathematics

c. 1900