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Cardboard models of Second Order Surfaces, 1901.

Mathematics

1901
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

Reversing thermometer in Magnaghi frame, by Negret

Oceanography

1896
Folding bellows camera for 116 rollfilm 2 1/2 x 4 1/4". Simple lens, US 116-128. Wollensak Optical Co shutter T/I/B. Brilliant reflecting finder on baseboard, reversible. Sliding focusing, with 3 position preset stop. Patent 20 September 1910.

No 2A Folding Buster Brown camera Model A

Photographic Technology

1910
Trespass notice, Midland Railway, signed Alexis Charles 1899, white letters on red background

Notice, Midland Railway

Railway Infrastructure

1899
Cast iron sign, South Eastern & Chatham Railway, Warning. Trespassing. 1901. C. Sheath.

Cast iron notice, South Eastern & Chatham Railway

Railway Infrastructure

1901
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

Sample of loading coil for Dover - Cap Grisnez submarine telephone cable, 1910

Telecommunications

1910

Card Sample Display Case

Textile Industry

c.1900

paper tensile tester

Papermaking

c.1900

Packaging for the No 1 Brownie Model B camera

Photographic Technology

c. 1908

Goerz Anschutz Press Camera

Photographic Technology

1895-1905

Holmes-type stereoscope

Photographic Technology

c. 1905

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

Building Construction

2000-1001 BCE
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
Medicine chest, style 251, by Burroughs Wellcome and Company Limited, London, England, 1910. Supplied to the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910 (Wellcome ref R.165). The chest has a hinged lid with two fold-out compartments. Printed inscriptions on the sides read 'Burroughs Wellcome & Co.' and, on the reverse, 'British Antarctic Expedition 1910'. Burroughs Wellcome and Company Limited, English, c. 1910.

Medicine chest used by Captain Scott

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1910
Bottle labelled "Tabloid' brand Ipecacuanha Deprived of its Emetic Principle'. The bottle is black in colour, opaque, and square in shape. 'Ipecac: sine Emet: Gr. 5' 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 ipecacuanha

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1910
Square paper packet, with attached label reading 'Needles'. Burroughs Wellcome and Company Limited, English, c. 1910.

Paper packet labelled to contain needles

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1910
Leather instrument holder. Flat and square in shape, with leather straps. Burroughs Wellcome and Company Limited, English, c. 1910.

Leather instrument holder

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1910
Paper wrapped parcel, labelled 'Mustard Plasters' and 'Supplied by Wellcome Burroughs & Co., London'. Bound with string. Burroughs Wellcome and Company Limited, English, c. 1910.

Parcel labelled to contain mustard plasters

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1910
Bottle, labelled "Tabloid' brand Ammoniated Quinine'. The bottle is black in colour, opaque, and square in shape. 'Ammontd. Quinine' 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 Ammoniated Quinine

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1910

Priestman oil engine

Heat Engines (non steam)

1895
Stoppered glass bottle 1/3 full of white compressed pills. Labelled "Tabloid' Ammonium Bromide gr. 5 (0.324 gm)'. Stored inside the Livingstone medicine chest. Produced by Burroughs Wellcome and Company Limited, England, 1900-1910.

Glass bottle containing white pills

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1900-1910
Stoppered glass bottle painted with red, opaque coating, containing unknown quantity or unknown substance. Labelled "Soloid' brand Corrosive Sublimate (Hydarg. Perchlor) gr. 7.3 (0.473 gm)' . Stored inside the Livingstone medicine chest. Produced by Burroughs Wellcome and Company Limited, England, 1900-1910.

Glass bottle containing "Soloid" corrosive sublimate

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1900-1910
Stoppered glass bottle, 1/3 full of black compressed pills. Labelled "Tabloid' brand Cathartic Compound'. Strip of textile or rubber adhersive plaster adhered around the neck of the bottle. Stored inside the 'Livingstone' medicine chest. Produced by Burroughs Wellcome and Company Limited, England 1900-1910.

Glass bottle containing pills

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1900-1910
Folding camera for 122 rollfilm 3 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches. Fitted with a Bausch and Lomb rapid rectilinear lens, US 4- 128. F.P.K automatic shutter, T/B/I with pneumatic release valve, sliding rising and cross front, sliding focusing, brilliant reflecting rotating finder with spirit level and hood. No 635-A. Eastman Kodak, 1903-1908.

No 3a folding pocket Kodak model A

Photographic Technology

1903-1908
Folding camera for 101 rollfilm 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches. Fitted with a Bausch and Lomb rapid rectilinear lens, US 4-128. Automatic shutter T/B/I with pneumatic release valves. Sliding focusing with preset stops. Brilliant reflecting finder on baseboard with hood. Eastman Kodak, 1904-1909.

No 2 folding pocket Kodak model C

Photographic Technology

1904-1909
Metal cover inscribed ‘Muirhead & Co / Westminster / No 15,959’ for commercial model of a wheel or steel-disc coherer (thin-film detector), Muirhead and Company, Beckenham, London, England, 1902. For use by the Lodge-Muirhead Wireless and General Telegraphy Syndicate Ltd.

Wheel or steel-disc coherer (thin-film detector), 1902

Radio Communication

1902
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

GBN toy magic lantern

Cinematography

1905
Small fitted wooden box with space for three components (one only present) from commercial model of a wheel or steel-disc coherer (thin-film detector), Muirhead and Company, Beckenham, London, England, 1902. For use by the Lodge-Muirhead Wireless and General Telegraphy Syndicate Ltd.

Wooden box from wheel or steel-disc coherer (thin-film detector), 1902

Radio Communication

1902

Model of the PS 'Charlotte Dundas'

Marine Engines

1903
Experimental Lodge-Muirhead wireless telegraph receiver, designed and built by Robert Pickersgill Howgrave-Graham, British, about 1905.

Experimental Lodge-Muirhead wireless telegraph receiver, 1900-1910

Radio Communication

1900-1910

'Frog-pistol', 1904-1910.

Laboratory Medicine

1899-1909

Debrie 'Le Parvo' 35mm Cine Camera

Cinematography

1908

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

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1895
Base from Strowger calling dial, made by the Automatic Electric Company, United States, 1900

base for Strowger calling dial, 1900

Telecommunications

1900

English 'invisible fused' bifocal spectacles with

Optics

1905

Williamson Cinematograph Camera

Cinematography

c. 1910

'Livingstone' medicine chest covered in cow hide

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1900-1910

Birtac 17.5mm Camera/Projector

Cinematography

1898

stock exchange printing telegraph, 1907

Telecommunications

1907
Piece of compressed lint, oblong shaped and wrapped with label reading "Tabloid' brand Pleated Compressed Lint'. Stored in The 'Livingstone' 'Tabloid' medicine chest. By Burroughs Wellcome and Company Limited, England 1900-1910.

Compressed lint from 'Livingstone' medicine chest

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1900-1910
Stoppered glass bottle, 1/4 full of compressed pills. Labelled "Tabloid' Ipacauanha'. Found inside the Livingstone medicine chest. By Burroughs Wellcome and Co., England, 1900-1919.

Bottle of compressed ipacauanha pills

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1900-1910
Metal insert from upper part of field surgical pannier set, complete, British, 1905 pattern101919

Insert from a field surgical pannier set

Surgery

1905

Commander Clare Royse on Tricycle

Photographs

1901-10-04

Rifle Match

Photographs

1897-08-19

The Bungalow

Photographs

1899-06-07

Cambridge Station

Photographs

c. 1900

Pauline in the Dinghy

Photographs

1899-08-26