Model ship, Twin-Screw Steamship `Scotia', made by William Denny & Brothers Ltd of Dumbarton for the London & North Western Railway in 1921. In glass and wooden case. The model represents the steamship ‘Scotia’, which operated on the Irish Sea ferry service from Holyhead to Dun Laoghaire. From 1923 the ‘Scotia’ was owned and operated by the London, Midland & Scottish Railway. It was sunk in June 1940 after being bombed by German aircraft during the Dunkirk evacuations. Model reputed to have been displayed in Wolverhampton railway station. Model twin-screw steamship 'Scotia', London & North Western Railway/London Midland & Scottish Railway Railway Models 1921
Melloni's apparatus by Elliott Bros., London, England, 1888. Comprising cast iron bed with three sliding uprights and one upright with radial arm carrying two sliding pillars and a counterweight, plus various accessory apparatus: Locatelli's lamp and reflector, spirit lamp with cover on sliding base, reflector with hook and platinum spiral for heat source, thermopile with double cone and with two caps, line thermopile, plain screen, hinged screen, screen with aperture disc, double screen, black mirror, Leslie's cube with holder, copper hood heat source, two plates of rock salt in glass container, glass cell, angled mica plates in fixed mount, angled mica plates in rotatable mount, mica plates fixed perpendicular to the radiation in rotatable mount, mica plates in frame for varying angle of incliation to the radiation, wooden clamp, and wooden table. Melloni's apparatus for demonstrating properties of infrared radiation Heat 1888
Kodak magnesium ribbon holder. Triangular tinplate holder for magnesium ribbon with wooden thumb wheel. Kodak magnesium ribbon holder Photographic Technology 1930s
