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Edison Kinetoscope

Cinematography

1894

Main part of Edison Kinetoscope. Invented by Edison's British employee, William Kennedy Laurie Dickson (1860 - 1935), this was the first device to show moving pictures. Painted in white on left side 'Dept II No 584'. Brass plaque on upper front inscribed 'No 509 / Edison Kinetoscope / Manufactured by Edison Mfg Co Orange / NJ USA'.

Iron borings coherer (Branly type), 1894

Radio Communication

1894

Iron borings coherer (Branly type), probably made by Oliver Lodge, England, 1894. Mounted on wooden baseboard.

Brake van, London & South Western Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1894

Brake Van, London & South Western Railway, 10 Ton goods brake van (Road Van) No 99 of 1894 (British Railway No S56055).

Iron borings coherer (Branly type), 1894

Radio Communication

1894

Iron borings coherer (Branly type), probably made by Oliver Lodge, England, 1894. Mounted on wooden baseboard with electric bell components mounted alongside as vibrator for restoring the coherer.

Model of steam yacht 'Giralda'

Water Transport

1894

Whole rigged model of the twin-screw triple-masted schooner yacht the S.Y. 'Giralda' (1894), probably by the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Co., Govan, Scotland, c.1894. With two plastic plaques

Zither switch with open-wire multiple and two-motion ratchet drive, 1894

Telecommunications

1894

Zither switch with open-wire multiple and two-motion ratchet drive, made by the Strowger Automatic Telephone Company, Indiana, United States, 1894.

Flat steel-spring (or watch-spring) coherer, 1894

Radio Communication

1894

Flat steel-spring (or watch-spring) coherer, unknown maker, 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’

Presentation scissors, SS Vienna

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1894

Presentation scissors, with ornate sheath, silver gilt, used for the launch of Great Eastern Railway Twin-Screw Steamship Vienna, Hull, 18 July 1894, presented to Lady Seager Hunt. TSS Vienna was built by Earle's Co. Ltd, Hull, renamed TSS Roulers in 1920 and scrapped 1930.

Radial Flow Parson's Turbine Engines

Marine Engines

1894

Original radial flow Parson's turbine engines, part sectioned, originally fitted to the experimental yacht 'Turbinia' (fitted in 1894 and removed in 1896), by Parsons Marine Steam Turbine Company Limited, Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, England, 1894

Coherer with coarse brass turnings, 1894

Radio Communication

1894

Coherer, coarse brass turnings in long glass tube bent at end, designed or used by Sir Oliver Lodge, England, 1894-1904. Paper label stuck round tube marked in handwriting ‘June 23 1894’.

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

Babylonian clay liver used for divination, c.2050-1750 BC, copy, 1981

Hong Kong plague medal, England, 1894

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

Single-cylinder Oil Engine

Motive Power

1894

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.

Spherical nickel plated brass Troy weight

Weighing & Measuring

1894

One of 16 spherical nickel plated, brass Troy weights, 4lbs Tr., by L. Oertling verified by the Standards Department of the Board of Trade

Hertzian oscillator, 1894

Radio Communication

1894

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’

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE

Earthenware oil jar, Egyptian, probably New Kingdom, 1580-1350BC

Edison Kinetophone (or Phonokinetoscope)

Cinematography

1894

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.

Henrici's harmonic analyser, No 3, 1894.

Mathematics

1894

Henrici's harmonic analyser, No.3 (with three glass spheres) in case with brush, tommy, and reel of wire

Artificial right leg, England, 1894

Orthopaedics

1894

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.

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Mummy of peregrine falcon, Egyptian, 2000-1001 BC

Fay Sholes typewriter

Printing & Writing

c. 1894

Fay Sholes typewriter, c. 1894

Two iron boring coherers (Branly type), 1894

Radio Communication

1894

Two iron borings coherers (Branly type), probably made by Sir Oliver Lodge, England, 1894. Used by Sir Oliver Lodge for signalling to a Thomson marine galvanometer at the British Association meeting at Oxford on 14 August 1894

Mummy of a crocodile, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Mummified crocodile, no provenance, Egyptian, 2000-1001 BCE.

Model of a manual fire engine

Firefighting

1894

model of a manual fire engine, scale 1:4.8, (partly in section), such as was used by the London Metropolitan Fire Brigade. Made by T. Coates Esq., 1894

london & north eastern railway gateshead tender plate

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1894

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

'Magic Photoret' detective camera

Photographic Technology

1894

'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.

Concave Rowland diffraction grating on speculum me

Optics

1894

Concave Rowland diffraction grating on speculum metal, grating area 53 x 23 mm, with scratched markings reading 'Plate prepared at the Astronomical / and Physical Instrument Works / of J A Brashear Allegheny, PA USA / 1894' and 'Ruled on Rowlands first [?] Engine / Johns Hopkins University / Baltimore Md USA / 1894', in wooden case marked 'V.210.' A paper label on the box marked in German indicates (according to the donor) that the grating came from Paschen's laboratory.

s' Gravesande Ring and Ball, 1894

Heat

1894 (apparatus); 1742 (date of experiment)

s' Gravesande ring and ball, by J. J. Griffin & Sons, London, England, 1894. Experiment first described by s' Gravesande in 1742.

Model of Murdock's steam locomotive

Road Transport

1894

Model of Murdock's Locomotive of 1786.

Wolfmuller Petrol Motor Bicycle, 1894

Road Transport

1894

Wolfmuller motor bicycle, 1894.

Memorial stele to the doorkeepr Ruma

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Memorial stele to the doorkeepr Ruma, showing his withered right leg, plaster copy of Egyptian original, 2000-1001BC. Made in Dantes Plad in Copenhagen (Denmark).

Stone slab with seven holes for cosmetic ointments, Egypt, 1991-1786 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1991-1786 BCE

Aragonite slab with 7 holes for cosmetic ointments, each labelled in hieroglyphics, Egyptian, 1991BC-1786BC

Uterine probe, Playfair, aluminium

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1901-950

Uterine probe, Playfair, aluminium, first half 20th century

Welsbach-Kern gas radiator, with fuel, c.1894

Domestic Appliances

1894

Welsbach-Kern gas radiator, with fuel, c.1894

Square pavement brick from Babylonia (Southern Iraq), 2nd millennium BC.

Building Construction

2000-1001 BCE

Square pavement brick from Babylonia (Southern Iraq), 2nd millennium BC

Differential Air Thermometer, 1894

Heat

1894

Differential air thermometer with stop-cock, by J. J. Griffin & Sons, London, England, 1894.

Baudot Distributor for Printing Telegraph

Telecommunications

1894

Distributor unit (No. 2) for Baudot printing telegraph

Hong Kong plague medal, England, 1894

Wellcome Medals

1894

Hong Kong Plague medal 1894, circular silver, ribbon missing, awarded to Private A. Palmer of Shropshire Light Infantry, for services during Hong Kong Plague of 1894, designed by A. Wyon, probably made in England(?), 1894

Street scene

Photographs

c. 1894

A Kodak circular snapshot photograph of a street scene, taken by an unknown photographer, c. 1894. It is likely that the photograph was taken somewhere in the Mediterranean. Two men in bowler hats talk to a man in a fez as a dog in the foreground looks on.

Concave Rowland diffraction grating on speculum me

Optics

1894

Concave Rowland diffraction grating on speculum metal, grating area 84 x 39 mm, with scratched markings reading 'Plate prepared at the Astronomical / Pysical (sic) Instrument Works of / J A Brashear, Allegheny, PA USA / 1894' and 'Ruled on Rowland's / Engine Johns Hopkins University / Baltimore Md / USA / 1894', in wooden case marked 'V.211.', with '15000 per inch' pencilled inside the base. A paper label on the case marked in German indicates (according to the donor) that the grating came from Paschen's laboratory

Cast iron notice, Furness Railway

Railway Infrastructure

1894

Cast iron notice, Furness Railway, 'Caution to Trespassers', white letters on black background

Tangent galvanometer, Gaugain pattern (Helmholtz?)

Electricity and Magnetism

1894

Tangent galvanometer, Gaugain pattern (Helmholtz?). See note.

Ship's Bell for SS Amsterdam

Railway Shipping

1894

Ship's bell, brass, Great Eastern Railway, inscribed "S.S. Amsterdam", from the Twin-Screw Steamship Amsterdam I, built by Earle's Company Ltd, Hull, 1894 and withdrawn 1928.

Worksplate, Sharp Stewart & Co

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1894

Locomotive worksplate, brass, Sharp Stewart & Co No 4046 of 1894, ex Barry Docks & Railway "B1" class 0-6-2T No 75 (Great Western Railway No 257), withdrawn 8/1945.

Door of case for Aron self-winding electric clock

Time Measurement

invented 1892-1894

Door of glass case for Aron self-winding electric clock

Tutton's goniometer, for cutting, grinding and polishing minerals

Optics

1894

Tutton's goniometer, for cutting, grinding and polishing minerals with proper orientations by Troughton & Simms, London, 1894. Designed by Mr. A. E. Tutton

Bell Double Pole Post Office Telephone Receiver (c

Electricity and Magnetism

1894

Bell Double Pole Post Office Telephone Receiver (c.1894), in ebonite case, stamped "G.P.O. 1796"

Water turbine and generator

Motive Power

1894

Water turbine and alternating current hydro-electric generator made by Brush Electrical Engineering Co. Ltd, Lougborough, 1894.

Craven Brothers Manchester Limited worksplate

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1894

Worksplate, "Craven Brothers Manchester Limited, 50 tons 1894". From crane. Brass oval. 33"x23"

Imperial capacity measure

Weighing & Measuring

1894

Nickel plated standard measure of capacity: 1 Fluid Oz