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Snowdon rain gauge, by Negretti and Zambra

1908

Traveller's pocket instrument

1951-1900

Record from a kite ascent

1909

J.S. Dines' original prototype recording theodolite

1910

Cavalry sketching board, 1910

1910

Glass-stoppered bottle containing vanadium

1801-1892 (prepared); 1926 (element replaced)

Glass-stoppered bottle containing bromine

1801-1892 (prepared); 1926 (element replaced)

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

Tranquility Base, The Moon

1969-07

1900 ceramic wall frieze

circa 1910

'Bachelor' griller made by the Cannon Iron Foundry

circa 1910

Air hose

circa 1910

Sanderson field quarter plate camera made by Houghtons Ltd in around 1910

circa 1910

Bottle of 'DIRIGO' only

1909-1910

Telefunken wavemeter, 1908

1908

Enlarged photographs of the planet Mars

1909

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

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

2050-1750 BCE

Shaving bowl

1910

Small stub-stemmed meerschaum tobacco pipe

1950-1900

Gas burner by Townson and Mercer

1910

Atomizer, made by De Vilbiss, USA, 1909

1909

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3

Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.

2500 BCE

Small stone scarab pierced longitudinally with flat base engraved with design of standing harpist and seated figure

2000-1000

Oval copper plaque stamped with Latin cross

1909

Set of 22 trial lenses in case

1910

Small buckle-lock, 1908

1908

Tattooing set consisting of fibre brush and wooden blade-handle

1970-1910

Ediswan weather-proof switch, cast case, 1910

1910

Switch, white porcelain with eccentric motion

1908

Post-nasal curette

1971-1900

Brass saccharometer by R.B. Bate

1915-1825

Lampholder with copper gauze contacts for heater lamps

1910

"Thikflex" lampholder

1910

Bank of four tubular fuses

1909

Pale pink viscose skein

1909-1910

White viscose skein; thick yarn. Labelled "COURTAULDS LIMITED ARROW MILL

1909-1910

Yellow viscose skein; thick yarn. Labelled "COURTAULDS LIMITED ARROW MILL

1909-1910

Old ivory viscose skein

1909-1910

Cylinder watch in case

1801-1825

Coloured sectional drawing, Raffard coupling

1908 0f 1885 invention

Verge repeating watch

1713-1750

Lever watch in pair case with crank roller

1800-1830

Two gutta percha insulated cables from Arnold Perrett's Bonded Stores

1908

Cylinder watch in case with thin horizontal movement

1801-1850

Lever watch in case

1800-1830

Cylinder watch in pair case

1692-1730

Gold Pocket Watch with Crystal Tourbillon Mechanism by Fordsmand, 1910

1910

Harmonograph by Newton, 1909.

1909