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100 K.W. Radial Flow Steam Turbine alternator with Generator, by C. A. Parsons and Company, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, United Kingdom, 1891. Partly sectioned; (Radial flow, for the Cambridge Electric Supply Company installed in 1892)

100 K.W. Parsons' Radial Flow Steam Turbine alternator with Generator, partly sectioned

Motive Power

1891

Amputation set, Europe, 1891-1910

Surgery

1891-1910

'Frog-pistol', 1904-1910.

Laboratory Medicine

1899-1909

Covered mortuary trolley

Anatomy & Pathology

1895-1905

Brical British calculator

Mathematics

1900-1909

Naylor Marsaut miner's safety

Coal Mining

c. 1900

English lever reversing pinion pocket watch with dial

Time Measurement

1900

Briar tobacco pipe bowl, Dublin, 1896-1900

Smoking

1896-1900

Oldham & Son miner's electric

Coal Mining

c. 1910

Longuemare motor cycle carburettor, 1901

Road Transport

1901

Moya visible typewriter, no. 2, c. 1903, serial no

Printing & Writing

1903

A. E. & H. Robinson Gas Engine

Motive Power

1907

Steam locomotive, number 120

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1899
Collapsing camera for 121 rollfilm 1 5/8 x 2 1/2 inch. Fitted with a meniscus lens, sliding plate with three apertures, automatic built in shutter, separate release s for T/I. Brilliant reflecting finder. No 10156. Eastman Kodak, 1904-1909.

No 0 folding pocket Kodak Model A-B camera

Photographic Technology

1902-1906
Folding stand camera for 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 plates. With a W Banks Bolton wide angle lens F: 5 1/2 inches rotating wheel with stops f/17, 23, 35, 46 No. 56. Sliding rising and cross front. Front standard fixed. Rack and pinion focusing on rear panel, double extension. Reversible back with hinged ground glass screen. Vertical swing back. Square bellows. Reynolds and Branson.

Reynolds and Branson quarter plate stand camera

Photographic Technology

1895-1905

London & North Western Railway 1st class corridor brake no. 5155

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1906

Image of Marie Curie with her daughters Eve and Irene

Photographs

1908

Diamond Jubilee brick

Coal Mining

1897 c.

Blackpool - Glorious Sea. Health & Pleasure

Railway Posters, Notices & Handbills

1894-1900

X-ray photography of a woman's hand, Manchester, England, 1896

Arthur Schuster

1896
1852 - current (2009), manufacturer of ceramics, Chodziez, Poland

Chodziez

1897

Henrici's harmonic analyser, No 3, 1894.

Mathematics

1894

Rylands mineral water bottle, c 1900.

Glass Technology

1900

Medal given as a prize for pathology at the Medical College for Women, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1905

Wellcome Medals

1905

Robert Paul's Cinematograph Camera No 2

Cinematography

1896

Prestwich 35mm cine camera

Cinematography

1900-1910

'Pigmy Grand' Odeon hornless gramophone, c 1909.

Sound Reproduction

1909
Single cylinder non-condensing horizontal engine, Corliss valve gear, by John Musgrave & Sons Ltd, Bolton, 1898. Part sectioned to show valves, scale 1:6

Horizontal Engine with Corliss Valve Gear, c. 1898

Motive Power

1898

Frames from 'The Corbett Fitzsimmons Fight'

Cinematography

1897-03-17

Two glass tubes of anti-cholera vaccine mounted on board for display, Europe, 1892

Public Health & Hygiene

September 1892

Bridges-Lee type phototheodolite, 1894-1896

Surveying

1894-1896

Biokam camera projector

Cinematography

1899

Artificial right leg, England, 1894

Orthopaedics

1894

d'Arsonval electric chronometer, Paris, France, 1902

Laboratory Medicine

1902

Model of a Half-Twist Surface by Alexander Crum Brown, c 1900.

Mathematics

c. 1900

Priestman oil engine

Heat Engines (non steam)

1895

Rectory, Southfleet

Photographs

1899-05-25

Launching Cradle of Japanese Battleship 'Shikishima'

Photographs

1898-10-22

Greig Smith-type artery forceps, London, 1895-1902

Surgery

1895-1902

Letter written by Dr Neill Cream while in police custody, England, 1892

Wellcome (general)

1892

An early example of a 'Zip' fastener, 1891-1910

Locks & Fastenings

1891-1910

Zakooska

Photographs

November 1909

Filoscope: David Devant The Mysterious Rabbit

Cinematography

c. 1896

Ampoule of smallpox vaccine in original carton, England, 1907

Public Health & Hygiene

1907

Livingstone medicine chest

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1900-1910
First experimental spinning box for producing continuous viscose filaments, 1901

First experimental spinning box for producing continuous viscose filaments, 1901 and early reels

Plastics and Modern Materials

1901
Cylindrical bottle of 'Tabloid' brand iron and arsenic compound from `Tabloid' medicine chest used by Walter Wellman for Transatlantic balloon flight, 1910, made by Burroughs Wellcome and Co., 1900-1910

Iron and arsenic compound from 'Tabloid' medicine chest used for a transatlantic balloon flight in 1910

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1900-1910
Central-valve high speed steam engine, working model, scale 1:4, sectioned through one cylinder and crank case, Willans and Robinson Limited, Rugby, Warwickshire, England, 1901

Willans central-valve high speed steam engine 1901

Motive Power

1901

Criminal record sheet

Photographs

1901

High street and Post Office, Tadlow

Photographs

1901-05-22