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Arsenical cobalt or skutterudite, from Skutterude, near Modum, Norway

before 1889

Graphite Electrode

2022

Copper ore from the Bell Mine

before 1889

Cupellation furnace

1696-1700

Wrought iron lock (mid 18th century)

three gold-plated cable dies

1979

Sample of Bessemer Steel

1860

Cupriferous sandstone from Schweinkopf

before 1889

Cobalt ore from New Caledonia

before 1889

Bar of copper produced by Parkes' process

Touch needles for the assay of gold

Set of metallurgical specimens

1970-1990

Sample, one of two

1872

Nickel based superalloy turbine blade

2000

Alloy of lead containing five per cent of aluminium

before 1889

Lignite from Sasso Forte

before 1874

Iron ores from Cherbourg

before 1889

Model of modern Bessemer Converter

Specimen of 79% Fe-Mn, 1882-1884

1882-1884

Steel specimens showing the effects of fracture and various ways of heating and cooling

before 1889

"Trenchard" coal, Forest of Dean

1843-1889

White iron showing plates of iron carbide

Solenoid magnetic valve

Tin-plate box issued as a souvenir of the opening of the tin plate development at Ebbw Vale

Top and bottom coal

1843-1889

Prepared composition of Juleff's Cornish crucibles

before 1889

"Arley Mine" coal, Wigan, Lancashire

1843-1889

Tested clays from Rockingham Clay Works, Hampshire

before 1889

Wire nails with zinc plated finish, c. 1980

1980

Bronze plaque

Petroleum oil cannel coal, Bathgate, Wallerawang, New South Wales, Australia

before 1873

Fracture from small ingot showing columnar growth

Iron ore from Providence

before 1889

Tensile testbar

1882-1884

Coke used at the Thondu Iron Works, Glamorganshire

before 1889

Hanoverian peat

1843-1889

Piece of wrought iron found at Wortley Top Forge

Specimen illustrating Sherardizing process

Light coke, from South Staffordshire thick coal

before 1889

Light coke from the Heathen coal. South Staffordshire

before 1889

Nickel assay charging tray

Nant-y-glo and Blaina coal

1843-1889

Tensile testbar

1882-1884

Hartley kerosene shale, New South Wales, Australia

1843-1889

Iron ore from the Carboniferous Limestome of Pembrokeshire

before 1889

Alloy of nickel and copper

before 1889

Fatigue fracture in a rivetting snap

Molybdate of chromium. Prepared by Dr. Percy in 1851

before 1889

Undulating markings on brass

1848

Orpiment from France

before 1889