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Magazine box camera for notched cut films 2 1/2 x 3 /12 inches. Fitted with a beck Steinheil Orthostigmat lens No. 10395 US 8-255, four apertures in rotating plate. Rotary shutter 5/10/20/40/ aperture and shutter setting visible through lens. Shutter set through panel in base. With two reflecting finders, spirit level in film change handle with two Taylor Taylor Hobson double levels added. Covered in stitched calf leather with gilt fittings. R & J Beck.

De Luxe frena camera

Photographic Technology

c. 1892

Brass stereotaxic apparatus, English, c. 1905.

Surgery

1900-1910

Sir Charles Tomes’ LLD robes, London, England, 1909

Surgery

1909

Miniature mortar and pestle, silver, c 1901.

Pharmacy-ware

1900

One Frame of Bromide Prints From Films by Robert Paul, c 1897

Cinematography

1895-1899

Jackson type X-ray tube, United Kingdom, 1896

Radiomedicine

1896

HMS 'Albion' Just Before Launching

Photographs

1898-06-21

The Front, Hastings

Photographs

1899-03-01

Woman with a spinning wheel

Photographs

1899

Launch Of HMS 'Albion' At Blackwall

Photographs

1898-06-21

Woman with hourglass

Photographs

c. 1900

part of 35mm film 'Tom Merry, Lightning Cartoonist, Sketching Kaiser Wilhelm II

Cinematography

1895
Stoppered glass bottle, empty but with pink residue inside the bottle. Labelled "Tabloid' brand Codeine and Benzoic Acid Compound (Without cocaine) (Codeine, Gr. 4 1/2 per ounce)'. Hand written inscription on label reading 'l. q. h. for cough'. Stored inside the 'Livingstone' medicine chest. Produced by Burroughs Wellcome and Company Limited, England, 1900-1910.

Glass bottle containing codeine and benzoic acid pills

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1900-1910

Photograph of the emission nebula, Eta Carina (12 hour exposure)

Astronomy

1909

Well's Kettle Torch Lamp, 1910

Lighting

1910

Potain type sphygmomanometer, Paris, France, 1898-1910

Clinical Diagnosis

1898-1910

Kinora Cinematographic Viewer with picture reels

Cinematography

1908

Rectangular Vesta matchbox

Plastics and Modern Materials

1897

Two iron boring coherers (Branly type), 1894

Radio Communication

1894

Mummy of a crocodile, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Medicine chest used on Scott’s Antarctic Expedition of 1910, England, 1900-1910

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1900-1910

Man and woman in a Ford motor car

Photographs

c. 1910

Unknown woman

Photographs

c. 1900

Turning Capstan at Deal

Photographs

c. 1900

Criminal record sheet

Photographs

1903

Napier Arms Public House

Photographs

c. 1900

Woman with vase of flowers

Photographs

1899

Study of Man Fishing by River

Photographs

c. 1900

Small wooden box to hold calf lymph, England, 1900-1910

Public Health & Hygiene

1900-1910

Heart shaped basket made entirely from cloves

Classical & Medieval Medicine

before 1907
Model steam locomotive, `Lady of Lynn', Great Western Railway, `Saint' class 4-6-0 No.2906, prototype built 1906, 1/16 scale.

Lady of Lynn

Railway Models

1906

Recording drum, part of Galitzin seismograph.

Geophysics

1910

Lee and Turner Three-Colour Projector

Cinematography

1902
Glass bottle labelled "Tabloid' brand Quinine, Belladonna and Camphor'. The bottle is black in colour, opaque, and square in shape. 'Quin: Bellad: Camph.' written on the object 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 as containing quinine, belladonna and camphor

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1910

Intermediate Monarch Gramophone

Sound Reproduction

1908
Bottle labelled "Tabloid' brand Laxative Vegetable'. The bottle is black in colour, opaque, and square in shape. 'Lax: Veg:' written on the object 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 as containing laxative vegetable

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1910
Working model (Scale 1:4) of Martin's patent swathe-turner 1903-4, embodying Boehm's coupling for parallel axles, 1834.

Model of Martin's Patent Swathe-turner

Agricultural Engineering

1907
Plaque, London & North Western Railway, wooden plaque with "Five Seats" notice attached, inscribed "18 killed 44 injured. Shrewsbury Railway Disaster. Oct 15th 1907".

Commemorative plaque, Shrewsbury accident - London & North Western Railway

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1907
Receiving ‘jigger’ or oscillation transformer with single layer split secondary coil and superimposed moveable two-part primary coil, used by the Marconi Company, probably made by Marconi's Wireless Telegraphy Company, Chelmsford, Essex, England, 1899

Receiving ‘jigger’ used by the Marconi Company, 1899

Radio Communication

1899
LSWR dining car no.72 was built in 1907 renumbered 4134 in 1912. It was in use as a Diner until 1923 when ‘Ironclad’ Dining Cars came into service. It was then relegated to secondary service and gained the Southern Railway number of 7834 remaining in service to 1930. In 1931 it was rebuilt, losing its clerestory roof and became a ‘Nondescript’ saloon. In 1943 it was sold to the USATC and rebuilt as an Ambulance Car and given the number 201. At the end of the Second World War this saloon along with USATC 202 and 204-7 went to the Longmoor Military Railway and from there to the Bicester Military Railway where it acquired the Army number 3018. Here it was converted to an Inspection Saloon, losing its gangway along with rebuilding inside and gaining end windows 16th May 1978 it was used to convey HM. the Queen around the Bicester site

Inspection Saloon ex. Bicester Military Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1907
1907-1992, Button Makers, Birmingham

Buttons Ltd

1907

Esbach type albumenometer, Europe, 1895-1905

Clinical Diagnosis

1895-1905

Williamson Cinematograph Camera

Cinematography

c. 1910

Model of a manual fire engine

Firefighting

1894

stock exchange printing telegraph, 1907

Telecommunications

1907

Portable Aitken type Dust Counter, 1900-1908

Meteorology

1900-1908

Hines' 'Patent Weight and Quantity Calculator', c.1908.

Mathematics

c.1908

Diagram of Simple Trick Valve

Jones, T and TG

1905
Glass bottle labelled "Tabloid' brand Phenacetin Compound'. The bottle is black in colour, opaque, and square in shape. 'Phenacetin Co.' written on the object 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 phenacetin compound

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1910

Edison phonograph cylinder duplicator, c 1897

Sound Reproduction

1897