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Sample chemicals from research undertaken by chemists in Owens College Chemistry Department, c. 1860s-1880s. Glass jar containing pine oil .

Sample chemicals

Scientific Instruments & Research

1865; 1865; 1864; 1880

Sample chemicals from research undertaken by chemists in Owens College Chemistry Department, c. 1860s-1880s. Glass jar containing ammonium sulphide.

Sample chemicals

Scientific Instruments & Research

1865; 1865; 1864; 1880

Sample chemicals from research undertaken by chemists in Owens College Chemistry Department, c. 1860s-1880s. Label reads 'WO2', identified as Tungsten dioxide. Housed in presentation case no. 1.

Sample chemicals; Tungsten Dioxide

Scientific Instruments & Research

1865; 1865; 1864; 1880

Sample chemicals from research undertaken by chemists in Owens College Chemistry Department, c. 1860s-1880s. Glass jar containing Vanadium sulfide.

Sample chemicals

Scientific Instruments & Research

1865; 1865; 1864; 1880

Sample chemicals from research undertaken by chemists in Owens College Chemistry Department, c. 1860s-1880s. Unlabelled sealed tube with side-arm containing yellow gas, possibly sulphide.

Sample chemicals

Scientific Instruments & Research

1865; 1865; 1864; 1880

Sample chemicals from research undertaken by chemists in Owens College Chemistry Department, c. 1860s-1880s. Tungsten - black powder. Housed in presentation case no. 1.

Sample chemicals; Tungsten

Scientific Instruments & Research

1865; 1865; 1864; 1880

Sample chemicals from research undertaken by chemists in Owens College Chemistry Department, c. 1860s-1880s. Double ended sealed glass tube with flat mid-section. Appears to contain what appears to be a brown coloured gas, not labeled.

Sample chemicals

Scientific Instruments & Research

1865; 1865; 1864; 1880

Sample chemicals from research undertaken by chemists in Owens College Chemistry Department, c. 1860s-1880s. Glass jar, once contained butyl benzoate, bottle now empty.

Sample chemicals

Scientific Instruments & Research

1865; 1865; 1864; 1880

Sample chemicals from research undertaken by chemists in Owens College Chemistry Department, c. 1860s-1880s. Glass jar containing NaO, Rh2O3 - 6SO2.

Sample chemicals

Scientific Instruments & Research

1865; 1865; 1864; 1880

Sample chemicals from research undertaken by chemists in Owens College Chemistry Department, c. 1860s-1880s. Jar containing glass vial of tungsten nitride.

Sample chemicals

Scientific Instruments & Research

1865; 1865; 1864; 1880

Sample chemicals from research undertaken by chemists in Owens College Chemistry Department, c. 1860s-1880s. Tungsten dichloride - a solid grey dust like substance, crystallized. Housed in presentation case no. 2.

Sample chemicals; Tungsten Dichloride

Scientific Instruments & Research

1865; 1865; 1864; 1880

Tungsten di-oxychloride. Sample chemical from research undertaken by chemists in Owens College Chemistry Department, c. 1860s-1880s. Contained in a glass sphere and displayed in a domed case together with three other samples of tungsten.

Sample chemicals

Scientific Instruments & Research

1865; 1865; 1864; 1880

Sample chemicals from research undertaken by chemists in Owens College Chemistry Department, c. 1860s-1880s. Vanadium oxidichloride - a solid, set substance of mottled green, black and white. Housed in presentation case no. 1.

Sample chemicals; Vanadium Tribromide

Scientific Instruments & Research

1865; 1865; 1864; 1880

Tungsten mono oxychloride. Sample chemical from research undertaken by chemists in Owens College Chemistry Department, c. 1860s-1880s. Contained in a glass sphere and displayed in a domed case together with three other samples of tungsten.

Sample chemicals

Scientific Instruments & Research

1865; 1865; 1864; 1880

Mounted plan and elevation of a 40 HP condensing steam engine. Drawing no 1215. Galloways & Sons, 1868.

Plan of Galloways & Sons condensing steam engine

Sample chemicals

Scientific Instruments & Research

1865; 1865; 1864; 1880

Sample chemicals from research undertaken by chemists in Owens College Chemistry Department, c. 1860s-1880s. Glass jar containing CeO C2O3 + 6aq Oxalate of lime.

Sample chemicals

Scientific Instruments & Research

1865; 1865; 1864; 1880

Sample chemicals from research undertaken by chemists in Owens College Chemistry Department, c. 1860s-1880s. Tungsten dioxybromide, a red powder. Housed in presentation case no. 1.

Sample chemicals

Scientific Instruments & Research

1865; 1865; 1864; 1880

Sample chemicals from research undertaken by chemists in Owens College Chemistry Department, c. 1860s-1880s. Glass jar containing vanadium trisulphate.

Sample chemicals

Scientific Instruments & Research

1865; 1865; 1864; 1880

Stanford's New Map of Metropolitan Railways and Miscellaneous Improvements, sanctioned in 1866; also the Railways in Operation, and those Sanctioned before 1866, as far as Croydon, Hounslow, and Barnet; with a list of the plans [printed map] / Edward Stanford (publisher, 6 Charing Cross, London). 1866 Sept. 1 sheet folded within boards. Scale 2" : 1m. Post sessional edition]

Stanford's New Map of Metropolitan Railways and Miscellaneous Improvements, sanctioned in 1866 ....

Railway Maps & Plans

1866

Dynamo by Ladd, 1867

Electricity Supply

1867

Single thread chain stitch sewing machine by Charles T. Judkins (patented 1865)

Single thread chain stitch sewing machine

Textiles Machinery

1865

Kelvin portable electrometer, 1867 type, by James White. Ex-Antarctic Expedition, 1901

Kelvin portable electrometer, 1867 type, by James

Geophysics

1867

Bed pan, earthenware, by Minton, English, 1865

Public Health & Hygiene

1865

Stereophotograph from the Diableries series, Les Odalisques chez Satan [Odalisques at Satan's], Orientalist scene - Satan is sat under ornate horseshoe arches, surrounded by skeletons and women reclining, dancing and playing a string instrument. Taken by an unknown photographer in about 1866 and published by BK of Paris. Part of a series begun in 1861, these amusing stereoscopic photographs were sculpted and photographed by either Atabert or Hennetier.

Les Odalisques chez Satan

Photographs

c. 1866

Velocipede bicycle, by Michaux, Paris France, 1865-1868. Owned and ridden by James Moore to win reputedly first formal bicycle race, in Parc de St.-Cloud, Paris, 31 May 1868.

Velocipede bicycle, owned and ridden by James Moore to win first formal bicycle race

Road Transport

1865-1868

Miller's wagon c. 1865

Miller's Wagon

Road Transport

1865

Tin ore in satge No.6. East Pool Tin Works, 1868

Metallurgy

1868

Wire made from the sheating of H.M.S. "Fantome," 1867, analysed by Dr. Matthiesen

Wire made from the sheating of H.M.S. "Fantome," 1

Metallurgy

1867

Zoetrope strip of a swan swimming past a windmill.

Zoetrope strip: Swan Swimming Past Windmill

Cinematography

c. 1868

Copper(?) medal, commemorates Raspail and the "Systeme Americain". Artist unknown, medal French, 1867.

Copper(?) medal, commemorates Raspail and the "Sys

Wellcome Medals

1867

Case, square, hinged containing bronze medal, awarded to Hermann Woolley by the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, 1866-1867, designed by L.C. Wyon, supplied by W. J. Taylor, London, English 1866-1867

Case, square, hinged containing bronze medal, awar

Wellcome Medals

1866-1867

Silver badge of membership of the Blackpool Volunter Fire Brigade, Waterwitch branch, in form of a medal, English, 1865

Silver badge of membership of the Blackpool Volunt

Wellcome Medals

1865

Microscope slide displaying the transverse section of a human tendon, labelled ‘Prize Medal, Paris, 1867’, prepared by Arthur C. Cole and Son, England, 1867

Microscope slide displaying the transverse section of a tendon

Microscopes

1867

Microscope slide containing capillaries from the pia mater tissue, labelled ‘Prize Medal, Paris, 1867’, prepared by Arthur C. Cole and Son, England, 1867

Microscope slide containing capillaries from the pia mater tissue

Microscopes

1867

Microscope slide containing human connective tissue, labelled ‘Prize Medal, Paris, 1867’, prepared by Arthur C. Cole and Son, England, 1867

Microscope slide containing connective tissue

Microscopes

1867

Microscope slide containing human unstriped muscular fibre, labelled ‘Prize Medal, Paris, 1867’, prepared by Arthur C. Cole and Son, England, 1867

Microscope slide containing unstriped muscular fibre

Microscopes

1867

Bronze medal to commemorate Sir Joseph Whitworth, by J.S. and A.B. Wyon, England, 1868

Whitworth medal

Wellcome Medals

1868

Meat flat, silver plated, by Elkington & Co., Birmingham, 1867, Southern Railway garter at top, oval, beaded edge, (BTH 1S). Overall: 22 mm x 405 mm x 315 mm, 0.93kg.

Silver plated meat flat, Southern Railway

Passenger Comforts

1867

Three microphotographs, taken by John Benjamin Dancer, catalogue numbers 8, 17 and 61.

Three microphotographs, taken

Photographic Technology

1865

Bottle, clear glass, empty, for cinnamon solution, U.S.A., 1867

Empty glass bottle for cinnamon solution

Medical Glass-ware

1867

Bronze medal to commemorate hospital for the mentally ill, by artist Azzuri and by Bianchi, Italy, 1867.

Bronze medal to commemorate hospital for the menta

Wellcome Medals

1867

Trade token for sterilized water, Italy, dated 1865

Trade token for sterilized water, Italy, dated 186

Wellcome Medals

1865

Sixty nine models of joints in carpentry

Building Construction

1868

One of two carte-de-visite albums originally belonging to George Ferguson Thompson as souvenirs of his stay in Algeria 1867-1868. Album in shape of a book, bound with green leather. Several of carte-visites hand coloured.

Souvenir cart-de-visite album of Algeria, 1868-1869

Photographs

1867-1868

Albumen print cabinet card, by Julia Margaret Cameron, titled "The Guardian Angel". Portrait of Hatty Campbell, 1868. "From life copy right Julia Margaret Cameron" printed on front below image.

The Guardian Angel

Photographs

1868

Section of a silk-throwing machine, 1865

Textiles Machinery

1865

Plaster casts of hands of Mme Brienet of Paris for casting her horoscope in 1866

Plaster casts of hands of Mme Brienet of Paris for

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1866

Egyptian funerary statue of man and wife, granite, Old Kingdom, from plain of Memphis

Egyptian funerary statue of man and wife, granite

Classical & Medieval Medicine

4000-1000 BCE

Medal, bronze, issued by Protestant common cemetery, to J.A. Mullie, Burgomaster of St. Genris, for his Protestant works, by Wiener, Belgian, 1868

Medal, bronze, issued by Protestant common cemeter

Wellcome Medals

1868