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Guard's chronometer, Birmingham & Derby Junction Railway

1834-1844

'Railway Time' clock

1840-1880

Footstool/spittoon, South Eastern & Chatham Railway

Ring Balance Pressure Difference Indicator/Recorder, c1980

1980

Aerotensiometer

1950-1955

Conventional Aircraft flight instruments sectioned to show Design

1955-1975

Encapsulated gas motor

1965-1975

D.C. Bias indication meter 0 +/- 60 units

1918-1930

Air velocity sensor and measuring head

1940-1960

Sectioned microwave device

1950-1965

Gas Angle relief valve set at 200 lbs

1970

Wind tunnel calibration balance

1940-1960

Arithmetical medal and numerical pocket piece

1753

Lummer-Brodhun type differential photometer by Alex.Wright & Co.

1920-1959

Guard's timepiece, Barber & North, York No.19985

Sundial, brass, baseplate 7 1/4in. by 6in.

1671-1700

Sundial, brass, originally silvered

1701-1800

Inscribed sundial

1701-1725

Ordinary Mercury-in-Glass Fahrenheit Thermometer

1855-1913

Sundial with compass

1671-1700

Pocket Watch by Jodin in Gold Engraved Case, 1715-1790

1715-1790

Sunshine recorder card form type 4530, template, 1926

1926

Sunshine recorder card form type 4511 N, template, 1920

1920

Mercury thermometer in brass frame, 1775-1785

1775-1785

Hipp chronoscope with small galvanometer and key

1888

Multi-Stage Sand Glass, Unsigned, 1740-1840

1740-1840

Sun-dial, brass, with crescent-shaped hour circle

1701-1800

Sand Glass in Tipping Iron Mount, Unsigned, 1780-1850

1780-1850

Hemispherical sundial

1580

Essence box

1801-1900

Aircraft oil pressure gauge 0-40lbs

1910-1920

Medal, brass alloy. A Wild West Show shooting medal presented to S.F. Cody in its original case - 1893. Diameter 68mm

1893

AEG electrical time clock

1940-1945

Part of a tyre valve cover from the 1935 Sir Malcolm Campbell Bluebird

1935

Switch, Time GW8 MK1. 45/8/TS

1950-1960

Laryngeal mirror

1850-1910

Universal ringdial brass (part silvered)

1701-1800

Hipp chronoscope with small galvanometer and key

1888

Small galvanometer.

1888

Gendle balloon balance, Met O 97. for pilot balloon, for Royal Navy Meteorological Service

Bashforth's Chronograph with screens

1865-1875

Sunshine recorder card form type 4532, template, 1926

1926
Chair, Great Central Railway, straight back, re-upholstered in green leatherette, G.C.R. inlaid in brass on back.

Chair, Great Central Railway

Mantel clock, ornate black marble case, arabic numerals, brass plate inscribed "Presented to Mr. R. Dawson by the Gentleman Farmers and others in the neighbourhood of Shipton on his retiring as Stationmaster which he has filled so satisfactorily for a period of 32 years. February 27th 1894".

Mantel clock, presented to retiring stationmaster of Shipton

Ligature sterilizer consisting of metal stand, glass spirit lamp, glass tube, waterbath with serrated-ended glass plate, stand inscribed Arnold and Sons, London, English, 1890-1910

Ligature sterilizer consisting of metal stand

1890-1910
Collimator Sight

Collimator Sight

1940
Clock with pedestal case and ten weights, including 2 lead counterpoises, by Fuwa Gembei, Nagoya, Aichi, Chubu, Japan

Japanese clock with pedestal case and ten weights

Terrestrial achromatic telescope with ten-sided mahogany body tube, objective lens engraved 'Dollond, Inuenter, London' on dust cover, and five-lens eyepiece engraved 'Cole. Maker. No.136. Fleet. Street. London.' on barrel

Terrestrial achromatic telescope with ten-sided mahogany body tube

1760-1769
Plane diffraction grating with 14,438 lines per inch ruled on Rowland's engine at Johns Hopkins University on a plate prepared at the Astronomical and Physical Instrument Works of J.A. Brashear at Allegheny in 1890, on oxidised brass mount with circular rack and pinion for rotating grating, and three levelling screws

Plane diffraction grating with 14

1890
Ring Balance Pressure Difference Indicator/Recorder, by ICI Billingham, England, 1980. "D" type, no.D211 range 0-15 cms Hg max working pressure 350 atmospheres

Ring Balance Pressure Difference Indicator/Recorder, c1980

1980