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Public telephone sign

Telecommunications

c.1905

Knife-Edge Beam Scale

Weighing & Measuring

1907

‘Griffith’ foot-operated vacuum cleaner (Patent No. 21,304), designed by Walter Griffith, unsigned, Europe, 1905

‘Griffith’ foot-operated vacuum cleaner

Domestic Appliances

c. 1905

Model (scale 1:24) shewing a 3' shaft arrangement of Parson's marine turbines.

Model of Parson's marine turbines

Water Transport

c. 1907

Smith Premier No. 5 typewriter, c.1906

Printing & Writing

1906

Model ship, Single-Screw Steamship `Whitby Abbey', Hull & Netherlands SS Co. Ltd., North Eastern ports, prototype built by W. Gray & Co., West Hartlepool, 1907, broken up 1936. Requisitioned by the Admiralty between February 1915 and December 1919 and commissioned as an Armed Boarding Steamer. Served in the Gallipoli campaign. Known to have had two sister ships, Melrose Abbey, built 1929 and Jervaulx Abbey, built 1908.

model single-screw steamship whitby abbey

Railway Models

1907

Medal given as a prize for pathology at the Medical College for Women, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1905

Wellcome Medals

1905

Bosch magneto electric , make and break, sparking

Road Transport

c.1906

Poster for a Bioscope show

Cinematography

1905-09-23

F.N. 3 h.p. 4-cylinder motor cycle, 1905

Road Transport

1905

Locomotive worksplate, Hawthorn Leslie & Co, Newcastle, No. 2697 of 1907, 0-6-0T outside cylinders, ex Plymouth Devonport & South West Junction Railway locomotive "A S Harris", to Southern Railway No. 756 in January 1923, British Railways 30756, withdrawn October 1951.

locomotive worksplate

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1907

Small, hollow wooden cylinder to connect the mouth or ear piece for an early Bell telephone instrument used at Lloyds station, patented by Alexander Graham Bell, unknown maker, British, 1906. The mouth/ear piece and connector are not original and were added by the museum in 1906, weight 3.36 g

Connector for mouth or earpiece for early telephone by Alexander Graham Bell, 1906.

Telecommunications

1906

Handle for use with trephine, Mayer and Meltzer, from field surgical pannier set, complete, British, 1905 pattern101919

Handle for trephine drill

Surgery

1905

Metal box from field surgical pannier set, British, 1905 pattern101919

Metal box from field surgical pannier set

Surgery

1905

A seaside promenade

Photographs

c. 1905

A. E. & H. Robinson Gas Engine

Motive Power

1907

Locomotive Worksplate, "The Hunslet Engine Co Ltd Leeds No 901 - 1906", brass, oval, 2-6-2T outside cylinder 1ft 11.5in gauge "Russell", to North Wales Narrow Gauge Railway, 1922 NWNGR became Welsh Highland Railway, loan to Festiniog Railway 1934-1937 as No. 12, to Brymbo Steel Co Hook Norton in 1942, to Pike Bros, Fayle & Co Ltd, Norden Clay Mines Dorset in 1948, preserved by Birmingham Railway Club (display at Talyllyn), Hunslet Engine Co rebuilt 1969, now at Portmadoc.

locomotive worksplate

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1906

Frank Richard and George Philip Wells

Photographs

c 1905

Funnel made of yellowed transparent cellulose nitr

Plastics and Modern Materials

1905

Pendulum, from time recorder

Telecommunications

1905

Memorial stele to the doorkeepr Ruma

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Nameplate and number plate from Great Western Railway 4-6-0 locomotive no. 2920 "Saint David", built September 1907, withdrawn October 1953, recovered from British Rail Engineering Ltd., Swindon.

Nameplate and numberplate, Great Western Railway - "Saint David"

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1907

Adix adding machine

Mathematics

c.1905

Backstreet in Calais or Dunkirk

Photographs

c. 1905

Criminal record sheet

Photographs

1906

Roller-Blind Shutter

Photographic Technology

1905

light bulb - lamp, incandescent: tantalum

Lighting

1905

20lb 'Imperium' counter scales

Weighing & Measuring

c.1905

Metal lever associated with a surgical instrument from a surgical pannier, 1905 pattern

Lever-type surgical instrument

Surgery

1905

Mahogany velvet lined case for surgical instrument set from surgical pannier, 1905 pattern

Case for surgical instruments

Surgery

1905

'60 seconds' thermometer in a metal case made by Anderson and Buchanan, Glasgow from a field surgical pannier set, complete, British, 1905 pattern101919

Thermometer from a field surgical pannier set

Surgery

1905

Benton-Waldo punch-cutter

Printing & Writing

1907

Rotator for Geissler tubes up to about 9 inches lo

Electricity and Magnetism

1905

4.5 h.p. 'Minerva' Vee-twin Cylinder Motor Cycle Engine, 1906

Road Transport

1906

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

Insert from a field surgical pannier set

Surgery

1905

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

Building Construction

2000-1001 BCE

Marston Golden Sunbeam bicycle, 1906-1907 fitted with 2-speed epicyclic gear patent 6683/1904

Golden Sunbeam bicycle

Road Transport

1906-1907

Time results recorded on paper

Telecommunications

1905

Junior typewriter, c. 1907

Printing & Writing

1907

Kelvin-White portable volt and amperemeter

Electricity and Magnetism

1906

Nobel Medal, Prize for Physics

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1906

Market Place in Dunkirk

Photographs

1906-09-08

1:6 scale model of Koenig and Bauer's stop cylinder printing press size no 10b, made by Hunters Limited, Fleet Street, London in 1905. The original Koenig and Bauer's printing press on which the model was scaled was 52" x 35.5" in size and weighed 6.75 tonnes, with details provided in an 1897 Koenig and Bauer catalogue.

Scale model of Koenig and Bauer's stop cylinder printing press

Printing & Writing

1905

Monotype Epidiascope

Printing & Writing

1907

Victory

Photographs

1906-04-03

Insert from surgical instrument case, 1905

Insert from surgical instrument case

Surgery

1905

Box labelled 'Tin A' from field surgical pannier set, complete, British, 1905 pattern101919

Box from surgical pannier

Surgery

1905

Canvas with leather and metal straps bag from field surgical pannier, British, 1905 pattern101919

Canvas bag from field surgical pannier set

Surgery

1905

Leather box with blue silk lining for a Potain-type aspirator from a surgical field pannier, pattern 1905

Box for a Potain type aspirator

Surgery

1905

Lena Ashwell

Photographs

1907