Wellcome Medals
1894
Hong Kong Plague Medal 1894, silver medal with silk ribbon, awarded to Private S. Abbey of Shropshire Light Infantry, by the Hong Kong Community for his services during the plague epidemic, by Boucher and Wyon, English, 1894
Sound Reproduction
1897
Early H.M.V. Gramophone, 1897.
Motive Power
Horizontal single-cylinder oil engine, made by Crossley Brothers Ltd, Manchester, c.1894. Single cylinder heavy oil engine, a four stroke principle, horizontal type, with cylinder over hung at rear. Feed oil tank contained in base of casting so this was a self contained unit except for water to cool it.
Weighing & Measuring
One of 16 spherical nickel plated, brass Troy weights, 4lbs Tr., by L. Oertling verified by the Standards Department of the Board of Trade
Radiomedicine
1895
Photograph of a radiograph of a hand, covered with glass, taken by Roentgen, Wurzburg, Germany, 1895
Hand and Machine Tools
c. 1897
Automatic lathe, made by Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Co., Providence, Rhode Island, USA, and installed at the Renolds Ltd factory, Manchester, 1897. Number 0.0.
Electronic Components
Early 'Braun Tube'. Cathode ray tube.
Radio Communication
Small Hertzian oscillator, made by E E Robinson, England, 1894. Used by Oliver Lodge in his lecture before the Royal Institution on 1 June 1894 on ‘The work of Hertz and his successors’
Nuclear Physics
1896
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.
Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry
Orthometre brass eye measuring instrument in velvet lined wooden case, 1895. Designed by Alphonse Bertillon in Paris, France as a criminal identification tool.
Cinematography
Short's Filoscope 'The Train'. Manufactured by The British Mutoscope & Biograph Co Ltd, Henry W Short (patentee/inventor), 1897.
1895-1980s, manufacturer of medicinal lozenges, England
Classical & Medieval Medicine
2000-1350 BCE
Earthenware oil jar, Egyptian, probably New Kingdom, 1580-1350BC
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.
Double focus X-ray tube, 1896.
Part of original 35mm print (7 feet) positive film, "Sea Waves at Dover", made by Birt Acres in 1895. also known as 'Rough Sea at Dover'.
Locomotives and Rolling Stock
1893
Steam locomotive and tender, North Eastern Railway, 4-4-0 No.1621, designed by Wilson Worsdell, built at Gateshead in 1893, withdrawn in 1945.
1896 - 1947
1896-1947, scientific instrument and radio manufacturer, Cambridge
Surveying
Watkin type clinometer, cased, with extra spirit level, made by Elliott Brothers, Strand, London, England, 1895
Meteorology
Recording rain gauge by Negretti and Zambra, 1897.
Domestic Appliances
Model of green chimney like structure, made of metal. Marked in pencil with 24. Part of a collection of small models of sanitary appliances, to be used for instruction in hygiene, in cabinet.
1897 - 2006
1897-2006?, researcher; manufacturer of electronic communication equipment, United Kingdom
1897 - 2012
active 1897-1968, laboratory apparatus and instrument maker, London, England
Road Transport
Queen Victoria's pony bath chair, a one slope chair with a leather apron to cover the riders knees. It was drawn by a pony who was led by a footman for a slower, steadier ride. The Bath chair was originally designed by James Heeth c.1750 and thought to be named after the place of origin, or possibly because the design resembled a bath tube. This one belonged to Queen Victoria, built for an older and more fragile Queen who was finding it more difficult to get around. It was donated in 1936 by HM King Edward VIII with several other Victorian carriages.
Astronomy
Solar Corona 1893 April 16, Brazil, glass transparency no.55 6 1/4 sq, from photo by A. Taylor, diameter of solar disc = 1 1/2"
Gas Industry
Upright type Welsbach type C burner of 1893, with clay orifice. With mantle fork and incandescent mantle.
Printing & Writing
Gardner typewriter, c. 1893
Coal Mining
1897 c.
Brick, coal mining use. Staffordshire blue, 1897, stamped Diamond Jubilee.
Arthur Schuster
X-ray photograph [arthritic bones in a woman's hand] / by Prof. Arthur Schuster c.1896 at Manchester University
1852 - current (2009), manufacturer of ceramics, Chodziez, Poland
Mathematics
Henrici's harmonic analyser, No.3 (with three glass spheres) in case with brush, tommy, and reel of wire
Early Kinematograph apparatus by Robert Paul, London, 1896. One camera with continuous feed.
1894-1896
Bridges-Lee type phototheodolite by J. Hicks, 8, 9 & 10 Hatton Garden, London, England, 1894-96.
Orthopaedics
Wooden right above knee prosthesis made for a 16 year old Boy Soldier in 1894. It was worn continuously by him until he was (very reluctantly) supplied with a new one in 1972. This he wore until his death in 1977 at the age of 99. Supplied by the Army.
1897-03-17
60mm Film strip, made up of five frames of the earliest feature film (and earliest widescreen feature) entitled 'The Corbett Fitzsimmons Fight', directed by Enoch J Rector. Filmed on 17 March 1897 in Carson City, Nevada, USA.
Heat Engines (non steam)
Priestman oil engine, 1895, 3 h.p., 7" diameter x 10" stroke, incomplete, with accessories and spare parts detached, by William Dent Priestman, Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, England, 1895
c. 1896
Optical toy: A filoscope with printed kinetic photographic subject 'David Devant - The Mysterious Rabbit' with picture sheets numbered 3 - 124. These pictures were originally produced by R W Paul around July 1896 for cinematographic projection. Devant's autobiography described the rabbit trick as 'the first animated picture ever taken of a performer...shot by R W Paul on the roof of the Alhambra Theatre... This picture wsa reproduced in a little device called the Filiscope [sic].'
2000-1001 BCE
Mummy of peregrine falcon, Egyptian, 2000-1001 BC
Marine Engines
1896-1897
Model, scale 1:5, of a water-tube 'Belleville' boiler (1895) as fitted on many large British war ships between 1895-1901, the model represents the type of boiler used on HM cruisers 'Powerful' and 'Terrible', by T. & C.J. Coates, Wallington, Sutton, Surrey, England, 1896-1897
Model of Galloway boiler, 1890, scale 1:12. This modification of the Lancashire boiler was patented by William and John Galloway in 1851
Smoking
1894-1895
Vulcanite cigar holder with amber mouthpiece, in case, made in Chester, 1894-1895
c. 1894
Fay Sholes typewriter, c. 1894
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
Cream metal model of an arch. Part of a collection of small models of sanitary appliances, to be used for instruction in hygiene, in cabinet
Beige ceramid model of a funnel, tube coming out at an angle. Sticker marked 57. Part of a collection of small models of sanitary appliances, to be used for instruction in hygiene, in cabinet
Wooden black, slanted recatangle shape (paralellogram). Sticker marked 4. Part of a collection of small models of sanitary appliances, to be used for instruction in hygiene, in cabinet
Wood and metal, appears to be a block of wood with a pipe through it. Sticker marked 122. Part of a collection of small models of sanitary appliances, to be used for instruction in hygiene, in cabinet
Model of a green chimney like structure, that resembles a pencil. Khaki green. Sticker marked 28. Part of collection of small models of sanitary appliances, to be used for instruction in hygiene, in cabinet
Jackson Focus X-ray tube
Part of 35mm negative film, "Tom Merry, Lightning Cartoonist, Drawing Kaiser Wilhelm II", made by Birt Acres in 1895.
