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Planting and manufacturing of indigo: Beating a vat by hand

Oscar Jean Baptiste Mallitte

1877

3 orange cuttle-fish eyes (?), used by the Incas t

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1867

Wharfedale Printing Press, 1870-1880

Printing & Writing

1870-1880

Leather-bound metal compass with ivory handle used

Navigation

1870-1875

Close, No 18 Saltmarket

Photographs

1868

Squadron of 17 Bengal Irregular Cavalry at Fyzabad

Photographs

1868

Bell Street, from High Street

Photographs

1868

Saltmarket, from Bridgegate

Photographs

1868

Wheatstone's Moving Picture Viewer

Cinematography

c. 1870

Thomas de Colmar arithmometer

Computing & Data Processing

1870-1880

Roberts type monaural stethoscope, reputedly English, 1870-1880

Clinical Diagnosis

1870-1880

Professor Huxley

Photographs

1880

Packets of smallpox vaccination points, London, 1873

Public Health & Hygiene

1873
Circular slide rule by Troughton and Simms, designed by William Froude c.1877, with inscription plate and three logarithmic scales, used at the Admiralty Experimental Establishment, by Troughton and Simms, London, 1887

Circular slide rule

Froude

1877

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

Cinematography

1876

Magic lantern slide: Exploding pie

Cinematography

1870

Magic lantern slide: Woman with crinoline frame

Cinematography

1870

Close, No 29 Gallowgate

Photographs

1868

Planting and manufacturing of indigo: Indigo boilers and fecula table

Oscar Jean Baptiste Mallitte

1877

Carnarvon Castle

Photographs

1868

Deformation of a cylinder, surface string model

Mathematics

1872

Gold medal presented to Sir Henry Bessemer by the Emperor Napoleon III in 1867

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1867

Sir Henry Cole

Photographs

1877

Trial model and spare wheels for Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1870

Section of the tree under which Livingstone's viscera were buried, Africa, 1873

Wellcome (general)

1873

'The Goblin Court', Royal Polytechnic Institution lantern slide

Cinematography

1875

Model to Demonstrate Combination of Tidal Constituents, 1872

Geophysics

1872

Coolies

Photographs

c. 1871

Broad Close, No 167 High Street

Photographs

1868

Print. Science is measurement. / C Butterworth sc

Art

1879-1880

Planting and manufacturing of indigo: Press house

Oscar Jean Baptiste Mallitte

1877

three-nail microphone, 1875-1880

Telecommunications

1875-1880

Junker-type inhaler for anaesthesia

Anaesthesiology

1867-1880

Ross 'Wheel of Life' magic lantern slide

Cinematography

c. 1871

Close, No 46 Saltmarket

Photographs

1868

Surface string model, 1872.

Mathematics

1872

Hyperboloid surface string model

Mathematics

1872

Close, No 128 Saltmarket

Photographs

1868

Skew surface with its tangent paraboloid surface string model

Mathematics

1872

Princes Street, from King Street

Photographs

1868

Grover and Baker two-thread chain-stitch sewing machine, 1871.

Textiles Machinery

1871

Common groin

Mathematics

1872

Five O'Clock Tea

Photographs

1868

'Boneshaker' bicycle

Road Transport

1868

Slotting Machine by Joseph Whitworth & Co

Hand and Machine Tools

c.1870
Whitworth's workshop length measuring machine for measuring to an accuracy of 1/40,000 inch.

Whitworth's workshop length measuring machine for

Industrial Metrology

1871

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

Astronomy

1870

Variable punch cards for Analytical Engine

Computing & Data Processing

C. 1870

Silver prize medal for vaccination work, France, 1870-1871

Wellcome Medals

1870-1871

Magic lantern slide showing a portrait of Charles Dickens

Cinematography

1875