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Mathematics: The Winton Gallery

Explore the objects on display in Mathematics: The Winton Gallery and discover the fundamental role mathematicians, their tools and ideas have played in building the world we live in.

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Weights from the Castlereagh Collection for Philadelphia (USA). A set of 4 rectangular brass troy weights.

Weights from the Castlereagh Collection for Philadelphia

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1818
Weights from the Castlereagh Collection for Bahia (Brasil). Set of 8 nested brass cup weights for a Marco of 8 oncas for gold and silver.

Weights from the Castlereagh Collection for Bahia

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1818
Weights from the Castlereagh Collection for Venice (Italy). Set of 8 brass nested cup weights and hinged case with wooden screw lid box for the Pound Mark.

Weights from the Castlereagh Collection for Venice

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1820
Triumphator Calculating Machine, serial no.360699 CRN2

Triumphator Calculating Machine

Mathematics

1945-1965
Weights from the Castlereagh Collection for Trieste (Italy). Set of 8 brass nested cup weights with hinged case for the Venetian Mark in a boxwood turned case with lid.

Weights from the Castlereagh Collection for Trieste

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1820
Monromatic model electric calculating machine by Monroe Calculating Machine Company Inc., IQ 213 Serial No. 493640

Monromatic model electric calculating machine by Monroe Calculating Machine Company Inc.

Mathematics

1960-1965
Set of 7 flat square grain weights from the Castereagh Collection for Genoa (Italy).

Castlereagh Collection weights

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1820
Monroe calculating machine, miniature model LN 160 X

Miniature Monroe calculating machine

Mathematics

1960-1965
Hamann Manus R manual calculating machine with automatic division, serial no. 42478, by DeTeWe Communications GmbH, Berlin, Germany, 1953-1955

Hamann Manus R manual calculating machine with automatic division

Mathematics

1953-1955
Boxed set of moneychanger's scale with 8 coin weights and 6 flat grain weights, from the Castlereagh Collection for Libau (Russia).

moneychanger's scale

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1820
Set of 10 brass knobbed cylindrical metric weights with 3 flat grain weights in hinged wooden case from the Castlereagh Collection for Paris (France).

brass knobbed cylindrical metric weights

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1818
Weights from the Castlereagh Collection for Stockholm (Sweden). Boxed set of 4 square tapering brass knobbed weights for the Mint Mark and the commercial pound.

Weights from the Castlereagh Collection for Stockholm

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1818
Weights from the Castlereagh collection for Leghorn (Italy). Rectangular brass pound weight for gold & silver.

Weights from the Castlereagh collection for Leghorn

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1818
Burroughs hand operated Class 2 1300 bookkeeping machine with keyboard for Sterling currency, serial No. E2-1379306, by Burroughs Adding Machine Co., United States of America, 1925-1935

Burroughs hand operated Class 2 1300 bookkeeping machine with keyboard for Sterling currency

Mathematics

1925-1935
Keystone-shaped mahogany box for brass sextant with polished frame and limb, by Jesse Ramsden, London, England, 1790-1800.

Keystone-shaped mahogany for brass framed sextant.

Navigation

1790-1800
Single cup weight of 1 Mark from the Castlereagh Collection for Madrid (Spain).

Castlereagh Collection weights

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1818
Pallet 2 of 12 -Part of Manchester University Differential Analyser, consisting of 16 feet central frame, 4 integrators, 2 input tables, output table, camera. The Manchester Differential Analyser is an analogue computer designed to solve a class of mathematical functions called differential equations. This machine was built by the Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company and completed in 1935 for the Physics Department at Manchester University. The machine was based on an American design, powered by electric motors, and uses mechanical components to model mathematical relationships. The central device is a disc-and-wheel device integrator which performs mathematical integration.

Manchester University Differential Analyser

Mathematics

1935
Pallet 6 of 12 -Part of Manchester University Differential Analyser, consisting of 16 feet central frame, 4 integrators, 2 input tables, output table, camera. The Manchester Differential Analyser is an analogue computer designed to solve a class of mathematical functions called differential equations. This machine was built by the Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company and completed in 1935 for the Physics Department at Manchester University. The machine was based on an American design, powered by electric motors, and uses mechanical components to model mathematical relationships. The central device is a disc-and-wheel device integrator which performs mathematical integration.

Manchester University Differential Analyser

Mathematics

1935
Pallet 9 of 12 -Part of Manchester University Differential Analyser, consisting of 16 feet central frame, 4 integrators, 2 input tables, output table, camera. The Manchester Differential Analyser is an analogue computer designed to solve a class of mathematical functions called differential equations. This machine was built by the Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company and completed in 1935 for the Physics Department at Manchester University. The machine was based on an American design, powered by electric motors, and uses mechanical components to model mathematical relationships. The central device is a disc-and-wheel device integrator which performs mathematical integration.

Manchester University Differential Analyser

Mathematics

1935
Pallet 4 of 12 -Part of Manchester University Differential Analyser, consisting of 16 feet central frame, 4 integrators, 2 input tables, output table, camera. The Manchester Differential Analyser is an analogue computer designed to solve a class of mathematical functions called differential equations. This machine was built by the Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company and completed in 1935 for the Physics Department at Manchester University. The machine was based on an American design, powered by electric motors, and uses mechanical components to model mathematical relationships. The central device is a disc-and-wheel device integrator which performs mathematical integration.

Manchester University Differential Analyser

Mathematics

1935
Set of 7 brass nested cup weights for the metric Livre from the Castlereagh Collection for Nantes (France).

Nested cup weights, brass

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1818
Set of 9 brass flat grain weights and a boxwood case from the Castlereagh Collection for Lisbon (Portugal).

brass flat grain weights

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1818
Set of 10 flat grain weights from the Castlereagh Collection for Maranham (Brasil).

Castlereagh Collection weights

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1818
Boxed set of 14 cylindrical brass knobbed weights for the Roman Pound from the Castlereagh Collection for Rome (Italy).

cylindrical brass knobbed weights

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1818
Comptometer by Felt & Tarrant Manufacturing Co., USA, c. 1920

Comptometer by Felt & Tarrant Manufacturing Co.

Mathematics

1920-1925
Set of incomplete set of 5 brass nested cup weights from the Castlereagh Collection for Nice (France).

Nested cup weights, brass

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1818
Set of 9 nested cup weights with hinged case for the Peso Sottile, a pound of 12 ounces from the Castereagh Collection for Genoa (Italy).

nested cup weights

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1820
Set of 11 brass nested cup weights equal to 4 Marks from the Castlereagh Collection for Amsterdam (Netherlands).

Nested cup weights, brass

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1818
Madas calculating machine, model 10R 1269 by H.W. Egli Limited, Zurich, Switzerland and bag.

Madas calculating machine

Mathematics

1960-1970
Electromechanical calculating machine by Heinrich Diehl GmbH, Nuremberg, model EVM 18, " Archimedes Lizenz", serial no. 18851

Electromechanical calculating machine by Heinrich Diehl GmbH

Mathematics

1955-1965
Guinevere, Random Number Selector, used for drawing the British National Lottery, 1994

Guinevere, Random Number Selector

Computing & Data Processing

1994
TCI Tachymat with recording attachment by Wild Heerbrugg A.G., Switzerland, c. 1977. The earliest form of total station.

Part of Tachymat total surveying station, Swiss, 1972-1982

Surveying

1975-1979
Weights from the Castlereagh Collection for Tunis (Tunisia). Set of 10 circular flat brass weights for the Rotul (commercial pound).

Weights from the Castlereagh Collection for Tunis

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1818
Set of 8 brass nested cup weights for the Castilian Mark for weighing gold or silver from the Castlereagh Collection for Madrid (Spain).

Nested cup weights, brass

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1818
Pallet 12 of 12 -Part of Manchester University Differential Analyser, consisting of 16 feet central frame, 4 integrators, 2 input tables, output table, camera. The Manchester Differential Analyser is an analogue computer designed to solve a class of mathematical functions called differential equations. This machine was built by the Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company and completed in 1935 for the Physics Department at Manchester University. The machine was based on an American design, powered by electric motors, and uses mechanical components to model mathematical relationships. The central device is a disc-and-wheel device integrator which performs mathematical integration.

Manchester University Differential Analyser

Mathematics

1935
Pallet 3 of 12 -Part of Manchester University Differential Analyser, consisting of 16 feet central frame, 4 integrators, 2 input tables, output table, camera. The Manchester Differential Analyser is an analogue computer designed to solve a class of mathematical functions called differential equations. This machine was built by the Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company and completed in 1935 for the Physics Department at Manchester University. The machine was based on an American design, powered by electric motors, and uses mechanical components to model mathematical relationships. The central device is a disc-and-wheel device integrator which performs mathematical integration.

Manchester University Differential Analyser

Mathematics

1935
Pallet 11 of 12 -Part of Manchester University Differential Analyser, consisting of 16 feet central frame, 4 integrators, 2 input tables, output table, camera. The Manchester Differential Analyser is an analogue computer designed to solve a class of mathematical functions called differential equations. This machine was built by the Metropolitan-Vickers Electrical Company and completed in 1935 for the Physics Department at Manchester University. The machine was based on an American design, powered by electric motors, and uses mechanical components to model mathematical relationships. The central device is a disc-and-wheel device integrator which performs mathematical integration.

Manchester University Differential Analyser

Mathematics

1935
Boxed thermometer with brass weight, from the Castlereagh Collection for Constantinople (Turkey).

Boxed mercury thermometer with brass weight, that came from the Castlereagh Collection in the drawer for Constantinople (Turkey)

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1818
Set of 9 nested brass cup weights and 15 small flat weights for a Mark of 8 ounces, both for weighing gold and silver from the Castlereagh Collection for Amsterdam (Netherlands).

nested brass cup weights

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1818
Set of 9 flat grain weights for the metric Livre from the Castlereagh Collection for Nantes (France).

Flat grain weights

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1818
Set of 8 brass nested cup weights for the livre from the Castlereagh Collection for Charante (France).

Nested cup weights, brass

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1820
Set 4 round flat knobbed weights from the Castlereagh Collection for Malaga (Spain).

flat knobbed weights

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1818
Set 9 brass knobbed cylindrical weights for the metric livre with 6 flat brass grain weights in hinged wooden box from the Castlereagh Collection for Paris (France).

brass knobbed cylindrical weights

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1818
Weights from the Castlereagh Collection for Stettin (Poland). Set of 9 brass nested cup weights with hinged case.

Weights from the Castlereagh Collection for Stettin

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1818
Weights from the Castlereagh Collection for Rotterdam (Netherlands). Set of 10 brass nested cup weights in decorated hinged case for eight Dutch Marks.

Weights from the Castlereagh Collection for Rotterdam

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1820
Monroe manual calculating machine, model LN-163, serial no. B206901; with cover; made in Holland and bag

Monroe manual calculating machine

Mathematics

1960-1970
Boxed set of 14 brass cylindrical knobbed weights for the Roman Pound of 12 ounces from the Castlereagh Collection for Ancona (Italy).

cylindrical knobbed weights

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1818
Calculating machine invented by Sir Samuel Morland, 1663, adapted to trigonometrical computation. Made by Henry Sutton and Samuel Kribb, London, 1664.

Calculating machine invented by Sir Samuel Morland

Mathematics

1664
Distended human skull, labelled LN Fowler, for phrenological use, from the British Phrenological Society.

Distended human skull for phrenological use

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

before 1937
Cheese-shaped brass weight for a commercial pound from the Castlereagh Collection for Lubeck (Germany).

cheese-shaped brass weight

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1818