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Mathematics: The Winton Gallery

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Weights from the Castlereagh Collection for Elsinore (Denmark). Boxed set of 10 flat square brass weights for weighing gold and silver

Weights from the Castlereagh Collection for Elsinore (Denmark)

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1819
Weights from the Castlereagh Collection for Ostend (France). Boxed set of 9 brass cylindrical knobbed weights for the metric livre and 8 flat grain weights.

Castlereagh Collection weights

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1818
Cheese-shaped brass weight for a commercial pound from the Castlereagh Collection for Lubeck (Germany).

cheese-shaped brass weight

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1818
Set of 11 small flat brass grain weights and a set of 9 brass nested cup weights weights for the metric livre from the Castlereagh Collection for Antwerp (Belgium).

brass grain weights

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1818
Boxed set of incomplete (8 missing) brass knobbed cylindrical weights for the Reval pound from the Castleragh Collection for Riga and Reval (Russia).

brass knobbed cylindrical weights

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1818
Set of 5 grain weights for weighing gold or silver from the Castlereagh Collection for Madrid (Spain).

grain weights

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1818
Boxed set of brass knobbed cylindrical weights for the commercial pound of Riga along with set of 7 nested brass cup weights in case for gold and silver, from the Castleragh Collection for Riga and Reval (Russia).

brass knobbed cylindrical weights

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1818
Square brass weight for one commercial pound.

square brass weight

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1818
Set of 9 brass nested cup weights for a pound of two marks from the Castlereagh Collection for Maranham (Brasil).

Nested cup weights, brass

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1818
Set of 9 brass nested cup weights for 1 Mark from the Castlereagh Collection for Malaga (Spain).

nested cup weights

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1818
Set of 19 assorted apothecary, grain and other weights from the Castlereagh Collection for Libau (Russia).

apothecary, grain and other weights

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1820
Sets of brass nested cup weights without case for 2 Portugese Pound from the Castlereagh Collection for Rio Janeiro (Brazil).

Nested cup weights, brass

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1818
Brass bell weight both dated 1818 from the Castlereagh Collection for Hamburg (Germany).

brass bell weight

Weighing & Measuring

1818
Weights from the Castlereagh Collection for Bordeaux (France). Boxed set of 6 small flat brass weights of the metric system for gold and silver.

Weights from the Castlereagh Collection for Bordeaux (France)

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1818
Weights from the Castlereagh Collection for Corunna, Galicia (Spain). Set of 8 nested brass cup weights for the commercial pound of Galicia.

Weights from the Castlereagh Collection for Corunna, Galicia (Spain)

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1820
Julius Totalisator Equipment odds machine.

Julius Totalisator

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1933
Set of 8 brass nested cup weights with case for weighing gold and silver from the Castlereagh Collection for Valencia (Spain).

Nested cup weights, brass

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1818
Weights from the Castlereagh Collection for St Petersburg (Russia). Set of 8 cylindrical knobbed brass weights in fitted wooden block with 7 flat brass grain weights.

Weights from the Castlereagh Collection for St Petersburg (Russia)

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1818
Burroughs accounting or bookkeeping automatic (electrically driven) for pound Sterling by Burroughs, UK, serial no. C3-787064.

Burroughs accounting or bookkeeping automatic (el

Mathematics

1930-1940
Set of 7 domed octagonal brass weights, from the Castlereagh Collection for Constantinople (Turkey), unsigned, Constantinople, Turkey, 1800-1818

Set of 7 domed octagonal brass weights, from the Castlereagh Collection for Constantinople (Turkey)

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1818
Human skull, possibly for phrenological use, from the British Phrenological Society.

Human skull, possibly for phrenological use

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

before 1937
Set of 7 nested flat brass circular weights for weighing sovereign gold coins in bulk (2-200).

Nested cup weights, brass

Weighing & Measuring

1890-1898
General Hannyngton's slide rule, formerly belonging to the inventor

General Hannyngton's slide rule

Mathematics
Board with scale for machine for finding the roots of cubic equations both real and impossible

Board with scale for machine for finding the roots of cubic equations

Mathematics
Compartmentalised plush and silk-lined leather covered case for a set of 33 geometric solids, early 19th Century.

Compartmentalised plush and silk-lined leather covered case

Mathematics
Burroughs class 5 automatic (electrically driven) adding machine, serial no. 1518036.

Burroughs class 5 automatic (electrically driven)

Mathematics

1940-1950
Set of 8 brass nested cup weights for silver & gold with 12 flat carat weights from the Castlereagh Collection for Fiume, Istria (Italy).

Nested cup weights, brass

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1818
Set 7 flat grain weights from the Castlereagh Collection for Malaga (Spain).

flat grain weights

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1818
Hooped commercial pound weight for Riga from the Castleragh Collection for Riga and Reval (Russia).

hooped commercial pound weight

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1818
Set of a two metric hexagonal iron weights with rings for the Metric Livre from the Castlereagh Collection for Nantes (France).

metric hexagonal iron weights

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1818
Brass knobbed weights for 1 Marco from the Castlereagh Collection for Lisbon (Portugal).

brass knobbed weights

Weighing & Measuring

1818
Set of 9 brass nested cup weights of 2 Marco from the Castlereagh Collection for Lisbon (Portugal).

Nested cup weights, brass

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1818
Set of 8 brass nested cup weights for one Mark from the Castlereagh Collection for Minorca (Spain).

Nested cup weights, brass

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1818
Set of 9 brass nested cup weights for 128 Ducato dated 1818, from the Castlereagh Collection for Gothenburg (Sweden).

Nested cup weights, brass

Weighing & Measuring

1818
Set of 9 perforated weights from the Castlereagh Collection for Libau (Russia).

Castlereagh Collection weights

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1820
Set of 9 brass nested cup weights and case with wooden box for a commercial pound of 16 ounces from the Castlereagh Collection for Valencia (Spain).

Nested cup weights, brass

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1818
Set of 7 flat brass grain weights from the Castlereagh Collection for Valencia (Spain).

Castlereagh Collection weights

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1818
Weights from the Castlereagh Collection for Boston (USA). Boxed set of 6 cylindrical brass weights for the Troy and Avoirdupois system in a leather bound lockable case.

Weights from the Castlereagh Collection for Boston (USA)

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1818
Set of 10 brass nested cup weights for the Mark dated 1818, from the Castlereagh Collection for Hamburg (Germany).

Nested cup weights, brass

Weighing & Measuring

1818
Lagomarsino-Numeria manual calculating machine, model 5903, serial no. 072327; made in Italy

Lagomarsino-Numeria manual calculating machine

Mathematics

1960-1970
Model of a main pier of the Thames Barrier, scale 1:50

Model of a main pier of the Thames Barrier, scale

Civil Engineering
Weights from the Castlereagh Collection for Civita Vecchia (Italy). Boxed set of 14 brass cylindrical knobbed weights with 7 flat brass grain weights for the Roman pound of 12 ounces.

Weights from the Castlereagh Collection for Civita Vecchia (Italy)

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1818
Set of 7 small flat brass weights for the Roman Pound of 12 ounces from the Castlereagh Collection for Ancona (Italy).

brass flat weights

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1818
Brass sextant with polished frame and limb, by Jesse Ramsden, London, England, 1790-1800. Fitted with hinged stand instead of handle, which can be fitted to threaded hole on the lid of the case. Consists of inlaid silver 129° scale (-2° to 147°) with 20’ divisions, a silver vernier reading to 20”, three filter shades (two red, one green), three horizon shades (two red, one green) and scale magnifier on swivel arm (missing). Fitted with threaded telescope bracket (with detachable dovetail) for telescope (123 mm, set focus?) inverted image, four cross-wires and sight tube (51 mm).

Brass framed sextant.

Navigation

1790-1800
Human skull, no mandible, bone fitted, depression in left frontal bone, teeth worn, covered with labels, possibly used for phrenology, probably European, 18th or 19th century

Human skull, no mandible, bone fitted, depression

Anatomy & Pathology

1701-1900
Weights from the Castlereagh Collection for Smyrna (Turkey). Set of 9 tapering square bronze weights with handles for the Turkish Oke (Oka).

Weights and original correspondence from the Castlereagh Collection for Smyrna (Turkey)

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1818
Pallet 8 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 5 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 7 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
Human skull, marked with phrenological divisions, from the British Phrenological Society.

Human skull, marked with phrenological divisions

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

before 1937