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Ceramic pipe used as a cable conduit

1940-1960

Section through cast iron pipe bronze welded

Brass pipe, with ivory nozzle, used for hydrostatic demonstration

Gauze pipe and threaded plug from the incomplete turbojet engine

Iron tabocco pipe

1880-1925

Serpentine and pewter tobacco pipe

1890-1930

Eight inch length of seven inch raised seam lead pipe

Sectioned thermostatic Steam Trap, 1" diameter pipe

pipe

Cast Iron Water Pipe from Water Street

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

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

1807

'Y' shaped pipe connector

1945-1955

Taper Hydraulic Pipe

1899

Ceramic pipe used as a cable conduit

1940-1960

Piece of 2 in. diam. corrugated steel pipe

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

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

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

Wooden framed organ pipe, parchment sides

1800-1850

Copper pipe, with ring attachment at one end

Serpentine stone tobacco pipe

1880-1915

Wooden tobacco pipe

1890-1925

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

Part sectioned pipe with joint, showing improved streamlined branch construction

pipe

Wooden tobacco pipe

1900-1935

Pipe, clay, 6 1/2" long

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

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

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

Old English cast leadwork from Hampton Court Palace, 3 ft length of 3.5" lead pipe with raised burnt seam and overcast joint

Old English cast leadwork from Hampton Court Palace

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

Pump, pipe, gauze from Croll Testimonial

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

15 various sized samples of sectioned steel pipe showing method of threading ends for joining lengths together.

Samples of Sectioned Steel Pipe.

Cast iron uptake (?) pipe with square flanges, cast iron elbow with one square flange and rodding point and two covers that fit the rodding point, a larger cover for the rodding point on a stove uptake, and a rectangular cast-iron cover probably from the oil-box of a machine bearing

Cast iron uptake (?) pipe with square flanges

Cast Iron Hot Water Pipes with elbows and loose flange clamp connectors, c.1882

Cast Iron Hot Water Pipes with elbows and loose flange clamp connectors

1882

Length of 8" nom bore steam pipe approx. 2' radius made of steel welded construction with 8" riveted branch and welded flanges illustrates examples of joints and early welds

Length of 8" nom bore steam pipe

Ten foot length of old two inch cast-round lead pipe in three sections joined together by cast lead joints

Ten foot length of lead pipe

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

Eduction pipe - 2 pieces joined with spigot of faucet expansion joint

Eduction Pipe

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

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

pipe

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

String firebag

1850-1920

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

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

Brass pipe in six sections with T-joint

1761

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

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

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

Stone water pipe section