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Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1917

Short Magazine Mark III Lee Enfield .303 rifle (deactivated)

Public Health & Hygiene

c. 1917

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

C.W. transmitter/receiver, Mk.1, 1917

Radio Communication

1917

Burroughs hand operated adding and listing machine

Mathematics

1917

Akeley cine camera

Cinematography

1917

London & North Western Railway railway wagon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1917

Gas alert rattle, England, 1917

Wellcome (general)

1917

Box containing ampoules of Strophanthus extract, England, 1917

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1917

SE5A fighter, 1917.

Aeronautics

1917

Model H motorcycle

Road Transport

1917

Sunspots, American, 12 August 1917.

Astronomy

1917

Clay figure of animal

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1000 BCE

Mummy of a crocodile, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE

Surgical instrument set, Germany, 1917

Surgery

1917

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Two-power artillery periscope

Optics

1917

Field induction telegraph set, 1917 model

Telecommunications

1917

Two glass ampoules of dysentery vaccine, Paris, France, 1917

Public Health & Hygiene

1917

Cooke airship sight

Navigation

1917
Locomotive worksplate, "Nasmyth Wilson & Co Limited No 1247 1917 Patricroft, Manchester", brass, painted red, triangle, ex War Office 2-8-0 No 1704, on loan to Great Western Railway September 1920 to September 1921 and renumbered 6001, sent to store at Stratton September 1921, purchased by Great Western Railway May 1925 and renumbered 3027, withdrawn May 1948.

Worksplate, Nasmyth Wilson & Co.

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1917

Surgical instrument set, Royal Army Medical Corps

Surgery

1917

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1991-1786 BCE

Glass ampoule of dysentery vaccine, Paris, France, 1917

Public Health & Hygiene

1917

Memorial stele to the doorkeepr Ruma

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

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

Building Construction

2000-1001 BCE
Metal horseshoe, mounted on mahogany plaque, was mounted on submarine K.10 when launched in 1917, probably English, 1870-1916

Good luck' horseshoe mounted on submarine K10 at its launch, 1916.

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1917

Balloon theodolite by E.R. Watts & Son, pat.no.114

Meteorology

1917

Glass positive:- Jupiter, V.M. Slipher, Lowell Obs

Astronomy

1917
Liston's amputation knife, by Weiss, London, 1917

Amputation knife, part of RAMC surgical instrument set

Surgery

1917

Wieland der Schmied

Penn-Gaskell Collection

1917
Brass bound mahogany case with sterilizable trays for surgical instrument set, R.A.M.C. military issue, by J. Weiss and Sons Ltd., London, 1917

Surgical instrument case

Surgery

1917

Hypodermic syringe, glass and silver plated brass,

Therapeutics

1917

Pilot Inspecting Aeroplane Propellor

Photographs

c. 1917
Ship's bell, brass, Great Eastern Railway/London & North Eastern Railway, inscribed "T.F.1", from the Single-Screw Steamship Train Ferry No 1/Essex Ferry, allocated to the Harwich-Zeebrugge train ferry service, served as HMS Princess Iris during World War II, reopened the Zeebrugge train ferry service in 1946 as Essex Ferry, built by Armstrong Whitworth & Co Ltd, on the Tyne, 1917, withdrawn and broken up 1957 at Grays.

ship's bell train ferry no 1

Railway Shipping

1917
Locomotive Worksplate, "The Baldwin Locomotive Works No 45172 - 1917. W ^ D . Philadelphia USA. Indent No. DRT 887. Mar 1st 1917", brass, oval, ex works February 1917, supplied new to British War Office (War Department light railways 1040), renumbered to 590 later in 1917, 1923 to Welsh Highland Railway No. 590, June 1934 to June 1937 Festiniog Railway No. 13, scrapped June 1942.

baldwin locomotive worksplate

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1917
Meat flat, silver plated, Lancashire & Yorkshire/London & North Western Joint Railways, made by Elkington & Co, Birmingham, 1917; oval, garter on rim "L&Y & L&NW RY COS". Measurements 25 mm x 300 mm x 220 mm.

Silver plated meat flat, Lancashire & Yorkshire/London & North Western Joint Railways

Passenger Comforts

1917

Cross-shaped amulet

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1917

McVitie Weston valve collection, Marconi vacuum ampere gauge valve

Electronic Components

1917

‘Gloria – Easter Hymn’ by Arthur Middleton on Blue Amberol phonograph cylinder, 1917

Sound Reproduction

1917
Spare blade for amputation saw, by Weiss, London, 1917

Blade for amputation saw

Surgery

1917
Hydrocele trocar and cannula, nickel plated, cannula silver, by Weiss, London, 1917

Hydrocele trocar and cannula

Surgery

1917
Volkmann's double scoop, by J. Weiss and Son, London, 1917

Volkmann's double scoop, from RAMC surgical instrument set

Surgery

1917
Petit tourniquet, brass frame, by Weiss, London, 1917

Petit-type tourniquet

Surgery

1917
Selection of Hagedorn's needles in vulcanite case, by Weiss, London, 1917

Hagedorn's needles in case

Surgery

1917
Bistoury combined with Jordan Lloyd's scope, by Weiss, London, 1917

Bistoury and scope from RAMC surgical instrument set

Surgery

1917
Hernia director, by J. Weiss and Son, London, 1917

Hernia director from RAMC surgical instrument set

Surgery

1917
Trephine, with detachable handle, by Weiss, London, 1917

Trephine from RAMC surgical instrument set

Surgery

1917

Four and half packet of mercurous chloride tablets

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1917