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Part of Lower Bridge

Photographs

c. 1871

Making Charpie

Photographs

1868

Close, No 115 High Street

Photographs

1868

Greenhouse study

Photographs

1868

Pheasants and Pigeons

Photographs

1868

Close, No 46 Saltmarket

Photographs

1868

Road to the Plantation

Photographs

c. 1871

Close, No 118 High Street

Photographs

1868

Magic lantern slide: Dancing elephant

Cinematography

1870

Magic lantern slide: Dismembered clown

Cinematography

1870

Seal and stamp - Newhaven Gas and Coke Company

Gas Industry

1879

Photographic brooch

Photographs

c. 1880

Sea water sampler used on the HMS Porcupine Expedition, 1869

Oceanography

1869

Beam compasses, graduated, metal beam 17 1/2" long

Mathematics

1876

Maximum Mercury and Minimum Alcohol Thermometer by J.J. Griffin & Sons, 1880

Heat

1880

Nicol prism, in cylindrical brass mount

Optics

1870

Richard Owen

Photographs

1878

Dr Schliemann

Photographs

1877

Portrait of a prisoner

Photographs

1873

Brass model of power loom (scale 1:4) with improved tappet plates, patentee Bennet Woodcroft, England, 1870-1880.

Brass model of power loom (scale 1:4)

Textiles Machinery

1870-1880

French-nail microphone used by D.E. Hughes together with one small gauze-covered box, probably made by David Edward Hughes, England, 1875-1880

Three-nail microphone, 1875-1880

Telecommunications

1875-1880

Snow's face mask for chloroform anaesthesia

Anaesthesiology

1865-1875

Prison record sheet

Photographs

1873

Sir Joseph William Bazalgette

Photographs

1877

Jules Verne

Photographs

1877

Anthony Trollope

Photographs

1878

Magic lantern slide showing scene from 'Alice's Adventures or The Queen of Hearts and the Stolen Tarts'

Cinematography

1876

Patent model in brass of a pantoscope, invented by Charles Emmanuel of Paris, patented in America [Patent No. 45,954 January 17, 1865] and made by T. Auvray, Paris.

Patent model in brass of a pantoscope, invented by

Astronomy

1865

Hyperbolic paraboloid; a skew quadrilateral turning upon four hinges with parallel axes or pins; the lengths of the strings remain unaltered during deformation.

Hyperbolic Paraboloid string surface model

Mathematics

1872

Plaster model of a surface generated by a semi-circle, 1876.

Mathematics

1876

Dorcas lock-stitch domestic sewing machine

Textiles Machinery

1868

View of Hong Kong Island toward Kowloon

Photographs

ca. 1865

Igniter, for Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir's gas engine, 1860

Heat Engines (non steam)

1865

Model (scale 1:8) of an American locomotive with tender. This is said to represent a locomotive built for the Erie RR in about 1875 and was made by by William R. Lendrum, a machinist in the railway workshops of the Delaware Lackawanna & Western RR in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The tintype photograph on the clack-box is thought to be of Ledrum: the photo on the smokebox is of Ulysses S. Grant, US President 1869-1877.

Scale Model of an American locomotive with tender

Railways

c. 1875

Solar Corona 1871, December 12, Baikul, glass tran

Astronomy

1871

One long pear shaped vacuum tube with Maltese cross shaped anode

Electricity and Magnetism

1879

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

Bell Telephone

Electricity and Magnetism

1878

Galvanised iron canister, for winch wire cable, for Ocean depth sounding machine, used for marine vessel navigation

Navigation

1876

Siphon recorder, 1870

Telecommunications

1870

American refracting telescope, 1870-1880

Astronomy

1870-1880

Proposed benzene structures, late 19th century

Experimental Chemistry

1865

Two glass revenue hydrometers by Tagliabue, New Yo

Experimental Chemistry

1875

Colour print showing the corona around the Sun during a solar eclipse, 1870.

Astronomy

1870

Orion Nebula

Astronomy

1876

Model (Scale 1:8) of Fison's adjustable double furrow plough

Agricultural Engineering

1872

Burette with stopcock, 1876

Experimental Chemistry

1875

Analytical chemical balance in glazed cabinet.

Experimental Chemistry

1874-1876

Door lock, Cambrian Railway, relic of Abergele Disaster of 1868, found among the debris at Crewe Works by J.H. Cousins, Apprentice.

door lock rescued from abergele disaster

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1868

Victory-Kidder rotary printing press 1869

Victory-Kidder printing press

Printing & Writing

1869