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Bladder from Jacobsen's water bottle

Oceanography

1872

Electrical register for anemometer

Meteorology

1872

View on the Railway Incline - Ceylon

Photographs

ca. 1865

Harrison Flat-Bed Knitting Machine

Textile Industry

1870-1875

Brass landscape lens

Photographic Technology

1870-1875

Crookes' Radiometer, 1876

Heat

1876

Captive Ascents

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1878-1880

Hugon Gas Engine, 1867

Heat Engines (non steam)

1867

2nd Version Of Study After The Elgin Marbles', 1867

Photographs

1867

My Son Eugene Of The RA', about 1867

Photographs

c. 1867

Original Abbe apertometer, "made 1871"

Microscopes

1871

John Derbyshire Vase

Glass Industry

1876

Group from Sordello by Browning', 1867

Photographs

1867

Siemens syphon recorder, 1867

Telecommunications

1867

Dissected Cube puzzle

Mathematics

1870

Knott and Wood makers plate

Coal Mining

c. 1880

Plate, ceramic, white with red pattern round rim, depicting Joseph Pease in centre, inscribed 'Railway Jubilee Commemoration held at Darlington September 27th 1875, statue of the late Joseph Pease unveiled by the Duke of Cleveland KG Sept 27th 1875'.

Ceramic commemorative plate, Railway Jubilee

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1875

Box for standard Argand burner

Optics

1875-1876

Summit of the Manirung Pass, 18600 feet - Spiti

Photographs

ca. 1865

Locomotive worksplate, "Manning Wardle & Co No 517 BEM Leeds 1875", cast brass, oval, ex Class M 0-6-0ST "Stanley", built March 1875 for Scott & Edwards, Melmerby, contractors to the Brading-Bembridge Branch, Isle of Wight, worked Bembridge Branch under contract to Isle of Wight Railway until October 1898 when renamed "Bembridge", sold to War Department July 1916 and transferred to Fouant Military Railway, Wiltshire, scrapped 1920.

Brass worksplate no 517, Manning Wardle & Co

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1875

Portable Gaiffe induction coil, with silver-chlori

Therapeutics

1870-1880

Coal from New South Wales; ref: Mines and Mineral

Metallurgy

before 1873

Coal from New South Wales, from the Bulli Colliery

Metallurgy

before 1873

Lignite from Nicaragua

Metallurgy

before 1865

"Top coal", Henlis Coal and Firebrick Works, Newpo

Metallurgy

before 1874

Coal from New South Wales, from a ten feet seam, L

Metallurgy

before 1873

Labuan coal from the north-west of Borneo, analyse

Metallurgy

before 1872

Medal of Grand Prix, Exposition Universelle plaster cast

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1867

Rhomboidal Triacontahedron

Mathematics

1876

Arctic Highlanders, Cape York, Greenland (Bow of Discovery)

Photographs

1875-1876

Circular slide rule

Froude

1877

Cross callipers from excise instruments set

Mathematics

1876

Dring & Fage patent maximum and minimum thermometer, 1865-1875

Meteorology

1865-1875

Sir Robert Christison's Cistern Thermometer, 1871

Oceanography

1871

Vectis, Lowndes, steel and ebony, folding type, by

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1867-1874

Very delicate spiral bulb thermometer

Heat

1876

Parallel rule, 18 inch, wood, rolling type

Mathematics

1876

Equilateral prism, crown glass, by Ladd, London, c

Optics

1872

Plotting scale

Mathematics

1876

Nicol prism, in cylindrical brass mount

Optics

1870

Bung rod and slide from excise set

Mathematics

1876

Chemical Combustion Furnace by J. Orme & Co., 1870s

Experimental Chemistry

1870-1879

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Walrus, Carpenter and Oyster

Cinematography

1870s

Magic lantern slide depicting Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Walrus, Carpenter and Baby Oysters

Cinematography

1870s

Horn cigar holder with silver mount at end and joi

Smoking

1870-1871

Locomotive nameplate `Jubilee', brass, possibly original, ex 0-4-4 ST locomotive built by Black, Hawthorn & Co., 1880, scrapped c.1965.

Locomotive nameplate - Jubilee

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1880

Grout 'Tension' bicycle, 1871. This could easily be mistaken as simply an early example of James Stanley’s ordinary bicycle (aka the penny-farthing), however this has a significant difference. The large wheel uses the W. H. J. Grout patent of 1870 making this a ‘Tension’ bicycle. The tension of the spokes can be adjusted by tightening or loosening the screws at the end of the spokes, improving the rider’s control of the bicycle. The tension patent was also used in tricycles which boasted the capability of easily riding up hills while other riders with non-tension tricycles had to dismount and push.

'Tension' bicycle

Road Transport

1871

Locomotive numberplate, cabside, oval, brass, Great Northern Railway No.132, ex F2 Class 0-4-2 WT, built Doncaster 1870, scrapped June 1908.

Brass numberplate No.132, Great Northern Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1870

'Boneshaker' bicycle

Road Transport

1869

Coal brought to England by HMS Discovery

Metallurgy

1876