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Rectangular Vesta matchbox

Plastics and Modern Materials

1897

Two iron boring coherers (Branly type), 1894

Radio Communication

1894

Model of a manual fire engine

Firefighting

1894

Edison phonograph cylinder duplicator, c 1897

Sound Reproduction

1897

Collection of models of hygienic sanitary appliances

Domestic Appliances

1895

Folding stand camera for 3.25x4.25 inch plates; Lancaster patent lens with iris disphragm: f/10; rising and cross front, swing back; track and pinion focusing on lens panel; ground glass screen in Lancaster patent swing-out mount.

Lancaster 1893 Instantograph camera

Photographic Technology

1893

Tender plate, LNER, "London & North Eastern Railway, 8096, Gateshead Works 1894", brass, oval, ex 0-6-0 Class J21.

london & north eastern railway gateshead tender plate

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1894

Edison Class M phonograph, c. 1895.

Sound Reproduction

1895

Locomotive and tender, 4-8-0, 3' 6" gauge, wood burning, with 8-wheel double-bogie tender, built by Sharp Stewart in 1896 for the Cape Government Railway, later South African Railways. Locomotive number 390, later SAR 993, order number E1073 and T1073. Subsequently operated by Zambezi Sawmills Railway (also known as the Mulobezi Railway). Operated on the Mulobezi to Livingstone line. Length 51 4"; width 8'; height 12'.

Cape Government locomotive and tender 4-8-0, 1896

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1896

'Magic Photoret' pocket watch detective camera for 2 inch diameter circular film, six exposures, 12 x 12mm. Pinhole lens rotating shutter, single speed, hole for pin stop as for time exposure, Circular film held in back of camera front rotates to six positions. Patents July 25th 1893 Nov 28. 1893. Magic introduction company. 1894. Designer William K L Dickson. Takes six hexagonal photographs on a 'disc' of film.

'Magic Photoret' detective camera

Photographic Technology

1894

Shew's Xit Eclipse quarter plate camera, made by J F Shew & Co. London. Collapsing A form, wooden camera for RR lens, rotating aperture plate f/8,11,16,32. Rotary shutter T/I. Helical screw and lever focusing inf.- 1 1/2 yards. Shew removable , reflecting finder. No focusing screen. (M477)

Eclipse plate camera

Photographic Technology

1896

Concave Rowland diffraction grating on speculum me

Optics

1894

Dynamo in display case

Electricity Supply

1896

s' Gravesande Ring and Ball, 1894

Heat

1894 (apparatus); 1742 (date of experiment)

Maskelyne "Victoria" typewriter (series A no.8), 1

Printing & Writing

1897

Painting, oil on canvas, 'Perth Station, Coming South' by George Earl, 1895. Depicts a busy platform with passengers preparing to board a train for London at the close of the shooting season. The scene is set in about 1885, before the station was enlarged. There are crowds of passengers with hunting dogs, including pointers and setters, and among the luggage are grouse, blackcock and stags' antlers. Station porters carry luggage, a boy sells The Scotsman newspaper and passengers bid farewell to their friends and families. There are signs for the Highland and Caledonian Railways, waiting rooms and notices forbidding smoking. Signed and dated by the artist at bottom right. Framed and glazed.

Perth Station, Coming South

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1895

Two photographs, (7"x5"), from a collection of 51 photograph

Photographs

1897

Tiled mural, North Staffordshire Railway, tiled mural depicting Bridge Inn at Hanley, NSR loop line train 1897, blue tiles with brown border.

Tiled mural, North Staffordshire Railway

Railway Infrastructure

1897

Main body of Lumiere Cinematographe, no. 271, 1896.

main body of Lumiere Cinematographe

Cinematography

1896

Three embossing and hot foil stamping dies, 1985

Printing & Writing

1895

Monotype Size A Composition caster

Printing & Writing

1897

Terrestrial globe with Japanese place names

Astronomy

1893

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

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1895

Model of Murdock's steam locomotive

Road Transport

1894

Brass cylinder weight used for testing individual's perception of weight. Number '4' engraved on the base. Cambridge Instrument Co., Cambridge, 1893

Weight, from weight perception apparatus

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1893

Brass cylinder weight used for testing individual's perception of weight. Number '2' engraved on the base. Cambridge Instrument Co., Cambridge, 1893

Weight, from weight perception apparatus

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1893

Brass cylinder weight used for testing individual's perception of weight. Number '0' engraved on the base. Cambridge Instrument Co., Cambridge, 1893

Weight, from weight perception apparatus

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1893

Circus Horses Bathing

Photographs

1897-09-02

Case for weight perception set

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1893

Metal model of a chimney with a spike on top. Part of a collection of small models of sanitary appliances, to be used for instruction in hygiene, in cabinet

Model chimney

Domestic Appliances

1895

Yellow metal model of a cross section of pipes feeding into a cistern. Sticker marked 48. Part of a collection of small models of sanitary appliances, to be used for instruction in hygiene, in cabinet

Model of pipes feeding into cistern

Domestic Appliances

1895

Bronze coloured metal of a grate with 6 slits. Part of a collection of small models of sanitary appliances, to be used for instruction in hygiene, in cabinet

Model grate

Domestic Appliances

1895

Beige metal model of a pipe with another pipe coming out of it. Sticker with ink 106, crossed out in pencil 107. Part of a collection of small models of sanitary appliances, to be used for instruction in hygiene, in cabinet

Model pipe with two heads

Domestic Appliances

1895

Turner's square

Hand and Machine Tools

1895

Wolfmuller Petrol Motor Bicycle, 1894

Road Transport

1894

Parson's no. 2 geared turbine fitted to a launch, with two explanatory diagrams

Marine Engines

1897

Lantern slide of sea waves by Birt Acres

Cinematography

c. 1893

James White Lord Kelvin's pate

Electricity Supply

c. 1895

Carriage vestibule door, Belfast & County Down Railway, ex royal saloon No. 153, c. 1897.

Carriage vestibule door, Belfast & County Down Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1897

Uterine probe, Playfair, aluminium

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1901-950

Crandall no 3 typewriter, 1893

Printing & Writing

1893

Framed samples of Chardonnet artificial silk, 1896.

Plastics and Modern Materials

1896

Pocket Kodak Box Camera

Photographic Technology

1896

Brass cylinder weight used for testing individual's perception of weight. Number '10' engraved on the base. Cambridge Instrument Co., Cambridge, 1893

Weight, from weight perception apparatus

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1893

Asquith Hydraulic Hoist

Lifting & Mechanical Handling

1895

Metal model of a chimney like structure, khaki green. Sticker marked 25A. Part of a collection of small models of sanitary appliances, to be used for instruction in hygiene, in cabinet

Model of hygienic sanitary appliances

Domestic Appliances

1895

Wooden box lid. Part of a collection of small models of sanitary appliances, to be used for instruction in hygiene, in cabinet

Box lid

Domestic Appliances

1895

Cream model of a cross section of a cistern. Sticker marked 44. Part of a collection of small models of sanitary appliances, to be used for instruction in hygiene, in cabinet

Model of cistern cross section

Domestic Appliances

1895

Khaki green metal circle, possibly broken off another part. 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

Metal model of a straight pipe, beige. Sticker 102. Part of a collection of small models of sanitary appliances, to be used for instruction in hygiene, in cabinet

Model pipe

Domestic Appliances

1895