Graphite Electrode
2022
Copper ore from the Bell Mine
before 1889
Ordinary copper ore from Alderley Edge, Cheshire
before 1889
Cupriferous sandstone from Schweinkopf
before 1889
Cupellation furnace
1696-1700
Arsenical cobalt or skutterudite, from Skutterude, near Modum, Norway
before 1889
Wrought iron lock (mid 18th century)
Vesicular slag from the blast-furnaces at Russell Hall Iron Works
1861
Another basic slag similar to the last
before 1889
Blast-furnace slag
before 1889
Iron-slag from the Province of Borgarfjordr, Iceland
before 1889
Sample of Bessemer Steel
1860
Section Model of a Blast Furnace, 18th Century
1701-1800
Experimental steel alloys made by Michael Faraday (1820-1824)
1820-1824
Bronze "bow" type fibula brooch
Bronze cooking pot, Roman
Nickel based superalloy turbine blade
2000
Set of metallurgical specimens
1970-1990
Bog iron ore from old lake deposits in Holland
before 1889
Lamb and Flag' Cornish tin.
Soldier's helmet made in manganese steel, 1882-1884
1882-1884
Crystalline slag from tin smelting at Redruth
before 1889
Bog iron ore from Holland
before 1889
Nodule of clay ironstone, containing massive iron pyrites in large crystals
before 1889
Bog iron ore, from Ireland
before 1889
Touchstone and gold alloy needles
Pair of folding aluminium binoculars and leather case
Portion of one of the iron clamps from the Parthenon at Athens
before 1889
Adamantine boron, prepared and communicated by H. St. Clair Deville
before 1889
Small pieces of iron used in the "Welch Furnace"
before 1889
Model of Bessemer Converter, c. 1865
1860-1869
Models of metal crystal structures, ball and spoke and polystyrene versions
1974
Blast furnace slag
before 1889
Two links of an anchor chain forged from puddled iron with cast iron stubs, late 18th to mid 19th century
1780-1869
Replica of Iron Age saw found in Glastonbury
Lodestone or magnetic iron ore from Brazil
before 1889
Miniature knife, by Michael Faraday, 1819-1824
1819-1824
Crucible for melting bronze
Earthy red haematite from Somersetshire
before 1889
Blister steel from last cementation heat in England at Daniel Doncaster Ltd.
1951
Model of modern Bessemer Converter
"Refinery slag" from Sutton Copper Works
1871
Cannel coal
1843-1889
"Metal slag" from the fourth operation in copper smelting
1865
Specimen of iron ore, from the Sudan
Demonstration kit of shape memory alloys containing 25 samples in box
1996
Mottled pig-iron, almost entirely white
before 1889
Pink-coloured iron slag, found on the road near Pontypool Iron Furnaces, South Wales
before 1889
Stone samples suitable for use as touchstones for assaying gold, Czech Republic
1978-1995
Ballast pig-iron from Portsmouth Dockyard
before 1889