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Brass pipe, with ivory nozzle, used for hydrostatic demonstration

Sectioned thermostatic Steam Trap, 1" diameter pipe

Serpentine and pewter tobacco pipe

1890-1930

Iron tabocco pipe

1880-1925

Pipe, jade (broken). 5 3/4" long

Cast Iron Water Pipe from Water Street

'Y' shaped pipe connector

1945-1955

Taper Hydraulic Pipe

1899

Gauze pipe and threaded plug from the incomplete turbojet engine

Section through cast iron pipe bronze welded

pipe

Right angled pipe from a model of Maudslay's 1807 table engine (scale 1:24)

1807

Ceramic pipe used as a cable conduit

1940-1960

Stone Water Pipe

Wooden Pipe

Wooden Water Pipe

1" Dewrance's Bronze Cone Union for iron pipe, sectioned

Copper pipe with brass union at one end, and a T-piece with tap at the other

Pipe, clay, 6 1/2" long

Serpentine stone tobacco pipe

1880-1915

Wooden tobacco pipe

1890-1925

Wooden framed organ pipe, parchment sides

1800-1850

Wooden tobacco pipe

1900-1935

Three canvas pipe sections, for the Harold Hume Piffard Aeroplane E.N.V. Aero-engine

Part sectioned pipe with joint, showing improved streamlined branch construction

Ivory opium pipe, with repoussé brass pipe bowl mount and terracotta bowl

Copper pipe, with ring attachment at one end

Wooden Water Pipes

Stone Pipe

Piece of 2 in. diam. corrugated steel pipe

pipe

Glass pipe, with cork bottle stopper at one end and rubber hose attached to the other, from Dennstedt's electric combustion furnace

Ceramic pipe used as a cable conduit

1940-1960

Pipe, mass-produced, painted bright red, used for smoking tobaccos or other contents of smoker's choice, labelled 'Tattoo', possibly the name of the maker, made in Holland, c.1999.

Pipe, mass-produced, painted bright red

1999

six/seven pieces of water logged elm(?) pipe, circa1600. It was used to drain the moat at Clayton Hall, Clayton. manufacturer unknown

pipe

Part sectioned pipe with joint, showing improved method of making streamlined branches in pipe systems, with 2 tools used to form flange for joint

Part sectioned pipe, with two tools used to form flange

Short piece of pipe covered with Leroy's patent 1865, non-conducting composition for boilers

Short piece of pipe covered with Leroy's patent 1865, non-conducting composition for boilers

Short piece of pipe covered with fossil meal non-conducting composition

Short piece of pipe covered with fossil meal non-conducting composition

String firebag, containing pipe, stone, tinder and steel, from Rajastan, India, 1850-1920

String firebag

1850-1920

Four foot length of stone water pipe, twelve inch internal diameter, with octagonal stone collar joint

Stone water pipe section

Eight inch length of Roman lead pipe about four inches diam. with overcast longitudinal seam, from the old Roman baths at Bath

Eight inch length of Roman lead pipe about four inches diam. with overcast longitudinal seam

Large pipe; part of chain haulage system. Used at Old Medow Colliery.

Pipe for haulage system

Smoker's pipe - made from bakelite and shaped like an airship with gondoler and fins and a bowl of briar inserted in the top

Smoker's pipe

1910-1940

Vacuum pipe from Beamline 16.5 of the Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, Daresbury, Cheshire, in use from 1993 to 2008. Used to isolate the vacuum in the beamline

Vacuum Pipe from Beamline 16.5, Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory

Section of atmospheric pipe from South Devon Railway mounted on wooden presentation plaque. Includes illustration of a passenger train on Brunel's atmospheric railway passing along Brunel's sea wall at Dawlish in South Devon, with inscription underneath.

Section of atmospheric pipe from South Devon Railway mounted on wooden presentation plaque

Cast iron pipe from Lower Chelburn reservoir, north of Littleborough, which was constructed as a feeder reservoir for the Rochdale canal.

Cast iron pipe from Lower Chelburn reservoir

Three foot six inch length lead pipe formed by continuous extrusion process in 1930, together with small drawing illustrating process

Three foot six inch length lead pipe

1930

Rectangular lead rain water pipe with plinth bend 4" x 3" section, with lead scroll work ears, about 202 overall length, all joints flame burnt

Rectangular lead rain water pipe with plinth bend

Brass pipe in six sections with T-joint, plugged end and cap

Brass pipe in six sections with T-joint

1761

Pump, pipe, gauze from Croll Testimonial. This is part of the Croll Testimonial ceremonial centrepiece.

Pump, pipe, gauze from Croll Testimonial