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Old Building, High Street

Photographs

1868

Colour print showing solar prominences

Astronomy

1872

Molecular models

Experimental Chemistry

c. 1875

Slate tobacco jar, United Kingdom, 1877-1879

Smoking

1877-1879

Jacobsen's water bottle in frame

Oceanography

1872

Coal from Sumatra, called "Soengei Doerian" coal

Metallurgy

before 1872

Flexible monaural stethoscope c.1870.

Clinical Diagnosis

1870-1879

Medal, gilded metal, commemorative of Elopatak, 18

Wellcome Medals

1875

Model of breast water wheel with pentrough sluice

Motive Power

1868

Portion of the wheel of a 20 H.P. Thomson "Vortex"

Motive Power

1877

Crookes Radiometer to Illustrate his research, 1872-1879

Heat

1872-1879

Spectroscope of type used by Kirchhoff & Bunsen

Optics

1880

Plotting scale

Mathematics

1876

Hotbed soil thermometer, 1870-1875

Heat

1870-1875

Crank pen for drawing curves, made by W.F. Stanley

Mathematics

1876

Davy Infra-red Reflection Apparatus.

Heat

1876

Parallel rule, 18 inch, ebony and brass ordinary p

Mathematics

1876

Azimuth mirror component

Navigation

1876-1879

Ivoride (cellulose nitrate) mirror made by Daniel

Plastics and Modern Materials

1873

Bricklayer's trowel, Chinese, middle 19th century

Hand and Machine Tools

1874

Labuan coal, Labuan Coal Company, Borneo

Metallurgy

before 1872

Diagonal scale, metal 6 1/2" by 2 1/2"

Mathematics

1876

Steel drawing tracer

Mathematics

1876

John Browning’s, 1875 'Popular' single prism student spectroscope, with case

Optics

1875

Agate drawing tracer

Mathematics

1876

Palladium Hydrogenium

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1869

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

Heat

1880

One curve (guide) pen

Mathematics

1876

Incandescent electric lamp with 'candlestick' cap

Lighting

1879
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

Solar Corona 1871, December 12, Baikul, glass tran

Astronomy

1871

piece of metal rescued from the abbots ripton accident

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1876

Edison's Original Micro-Tasimeter, 1878

Heat

1878

Lord Kelvin’s syphon recorder ink bottle electrification instrument

Electricity and Magnetism

1868

"The Model Ready Reckoner"

Mathematics

1867
Water closet, Bramah pattern, by Tylor of London, c.1880

Water closet, Bramah pattern, by Tylor of London.

Domestic Appliances

1880

Kentish's compound slide rule; boxwood, 4 slides,

Mathematics

1876

Aneroid barometer by Darton, F. Darton & Co., Lond

Meteorology

1875

Cast iron gas standard lamp mo

Lighting

1877

Stanley 5 5/8-inch lifting nib drawing pen, Great

Mathematics

1876

My Favourite Picture Of All My Works. My Niece Julia

Photographs

1867-04

Stanley's 5-inch improved drawing pen, with liftin

Mathematics

1876

Split-lens eyepiece micrometer by Troughton and Si

Astronomy

1870-1874

Clay figure of animal

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1000 BCE

'Road' 6-inch drawing pencil

Mathematics

1876

Bust of Sir William Fairbairn

Motive Power

1875

Proportional compass

Mathematics

1876

Design for a Square DE Landau carriage

Art

1870

Planting and manufacturing of indigo: Indigo factory (beating the Vats)

Oscar Jean Baptiste Mallitte

1877

Handbill, Newcastle Races

Railway Posters, Notices & Handbills

1872