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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

Debrie Parvo 35mm cine camera

Cinematography

1908

Leatherette injection kit

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1901-1910

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

C. F. Casella & Co. Rain gauge, 1908

Meteorology

1908

Prince Bonaparte's collection of elements

Experimental Chemistry

1801-1892 (prepared)
1892-present (2008), electric company, American

General Electric

1892
Model valve gear, Walschaerts radial valve gear, scale 1:4, working, represents the valve gear as arranged on a locomotive built about 1883 for a French Railway company, made by the Science Museum in 1901.

walschaerts valve gear model

Railway Models

1900

Drafting compendium signed `Brevete S.G.D.G.', c.

Mathematics

1897-1903

Clement-Desormes' Apparatus, 1900-1906

Heat

1900-1906

Sledge-meter used on the Terra Nova Expedition, 1900-1910

Surveying

1900-1910

Model of an 8 element 'Belleville' marine steam boiler

Marine Engines

1896-1897

Galloway Boiler

Motive Power

1893

20lb 'Imperium' counter scales

Weighing & Measuring

c.1905

Vulcanite cigar holder with amber mouthpiece, in c

Smoking

1894-1895

Parsons' Auxetophone reproducer

Sound Reproduction

1903

Vacuum tube for spectrum analysis containing krypt

Electricity and Magnetism

1904

Fay Sholes typewriter

Printing & Writing

c. 1894

Lord Kelvin's magnetic deflector, c.1901, by Kelvi

Navigation

1901

Fleuss vacuum pump (two cylinders)

Vacuum Technology

1900-1910

The Perkin Medal 1907

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1907

Yost No.10 typewriter, c. 1905

Printing & Writing

c. 1905

Anderson's improved slide rule

Mathematics

c. 1904

Brass Bell Weights

Weighing & Measuring

1895-1905

H.M.V. gramophone soundbox, 1901.

Sound Reproduction

1901

Telefunken wavemeter, 1908

Radio Communication

1908

Platt Brothers Cotton Gin

Textile Industry

1901

Dumpy level in case

Scientific Instruments & Research

c. 1910

Glass photographic plate showing an x-ray image of

X-rays

1896-1899

Bottle, clear glass, for tincture of iodine, proba

Medical Glass-ware

1900-1910

Pathephone No.1, La Jeunesse gramophone with Pathe

Sound Reproduction

1906-1908

Bunsen's Ice Calorimeter, 1900-1906

Heat

1900-1906

Kodak No 4 Folding Pocket Camera Model A

Photographic Technology

1908

On the private railway at Sand Hutton

Photographs

1910

Negative Discharge

Photographs

1892

Salter Improved No.6 typewriter 1895-1900

Printing & Writing

1895-1900
Headboard, Great Western Railway, shield, ex royal headboard for King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, mounted on GWR Atbara Class 4-4-0 locomotive No 3374 "Britannia", 1902.

Headboard, Great Western Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1902

Car clock, brass mounted. S. Smith & Son Ltd., 9 S

Road Transport

1906

Casts of Chinese zodiac figures (Tang dynasty)

Asian Medicine

1871-1900 (copy); 618-907 CE (original)

Model of Thornycroft Schulz boiler as fitted in warships of the British Navy

Marine Engines

1903-1904

The Front, Hastings

Photographs

1899-03-01
Trackside sign, cast iron, Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway, Public Notice, 'All persons are warned not to trespass', white on black, c1900.

Cast iron trackside sign, Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway

Railway Infrastructure

1900

Woman with a spinning wheel

Photographs

1899

Launch Of HMS 'Albion' At Blackwall

Photographs

1898-06-21
Thermometre stored inside a cylindrical metal case. Thermometre numbered in black, and the glass restricts at one end. Visibly contains mercury at the narrow end. The case is formed of two parts that slot together, the lid of which is slightly dented. Burroughs Wellcome and Company Limited, English, c. 1910.

Thermometer in cylindrical metal case

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1910

Woman with hourglass

Photographs

c. 1900
Bottle, labelled "Tabloid' brand Sulphonal'. The bottle is black in colour, opaque, and square in shape. 'Sulphonal' written in white lettering beneath the neck of the bottle. Sealed with a round stopper. Burroughs Wellcome and Company Limited, English, c. 1910.

Glass bottle labelled to contain sulphonal

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1910

HMS 'Albion' Just Before Launching

Photographs

1898-06-21

Stereoscopic Spark Drum Camera

Photographic Technology

1904
Square model with a hole in it. Sticker marker 123. Part of a collection of small models of sanitary appliances, to be used for instruction in hygiene, in cabinet

Model of hygienic sanitary appliance

Domestic Appliances

1895