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Thomson's (Lord Kelvin) First Tide Predicting Machine, 1876

Geophysics

1876

NER 0-6-0 '1001' class steam locomotive and tender, No 1275, 1874

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Steam locomotive, 'Beattie Well Tank'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1873

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

Clinical Diagnosis

1876

replica of Bell's 1876 'iron-box' receiver, 1959

Telecommunications

1876

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

Packet of 39 vaccination points for smallpox vaccination used at Bristol Station, London, England, 1873

Public Health & Hygiene

1873

model sykes lock and block signalling system

Railway Models

1875

Catgut suture cord preserved in oil

Surgery

1875

Packet of 36 vaccination points for smallpox vaccination used at Pimlico Station, London, England, 1873

Public Health & Hygiene

1873

Packet of 50 vaccination points for smallpox vaccination used at Liverpool Station, London, England, 1873

Public Health & Hygiene

1873

Packet of 30 vaccination points for smallpox vaccination used at Blackfriars Station, London, England, 1873

Public Health & Hygiene

1873

Packet of 39 vaccination points for smallpox vaccination used at Tottenham Court Chapel Station, London, England, 1873

Public Health & Hygiene

1873

Bronze ticket medal for admission and commemoratio

Wellcome Medals

1876

Pyrophone

Acoustics

1873-1876

Saint's sewing machine, 1874.

Textiles Machinery

1874

Model (scale 1:4) of pair of "Janney" couplings; model (scale 1:8) old pattern couplings

Railway Models

1873

Lithograph of Daniel Spills Ivorideworks by Daniel Greenaway, 1875

Art

1875

Model of Stonehenge

Astronomy

1873

Joule's original calorimeter ('paddle-wheel apparatus') used in determining the mechanical equivalent of heat. Copper mixing vessel with vane and spindle

mechanical equivalent of heat apparatus

Heat

1876

Industrial 0-4-0ST locomotive "Bauxite", built by Black, Hawthorn & Co Ltd, 1874.

Steam locomotive, 'Bauxite'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Isle of Man Railway "Pender" Locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1873

Magic lantern slide showing a portrait of Charles Dickens

Cinematography

1875

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1875

August psychrometer (two thermometers with brass s

Meteorology

1876

'The Goblin Court', Royal Polytechnic Institution lantern slide

Cinematography

1875

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE

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

Cinematography

1876

Boxwood fathom marker, for Ocean depth sounding machine, used for marine vessel navigation

Navigation

1876

Crossley Brothers Gas Engine

Motive Power

1874

Crookes' Radiometer, 1876

Heat

1876

Repeating Theodolite, Horizontal and vertical circles

Surveying

1875

Rimless clip eyeglasses with smoke flat lenses and

Optics

1874

Dmitri Mendeleev

Unattributed

1876

Trammel for drawing ellipses, 1876.

Mathematics

1876

John Everett Millais

Photographs

1876

Stone slab with seven holes for cosmetic ointments, Egypt, 1991-1786 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1991-1786 BCE

Mummy of a crocodile, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Brass Burstow's patent Ellipsograph by W.F.Stanley

Mathematics

1876

Orion Nebula

Astronomy

1876

Analytical chemical balance in glazed cabinet.

Experimental Chemistry

1874-1876

'The Goblin Court', Royal Polytechnic Institution lantern slide

Cinematography

1875

Notice, cast iron, Midland Railway, Bridge weight limits, signed by James Williams, April 28th 1875, black letters on white background

Cast iron bridge notice, Midland Railway

Railway Infrastructure

1875

Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Model, of Stonehenge (1873), showing original stones position

Astronomy

1873

Sholes and Glidden typewriter No.2906, 1874-76

Printing & Writing

1874-1876

Folding arm protractor, 6 inch; brass, divided in half degrees on silver, reading by vernier to one minute of arc. Distance between points about 12 inches

Folding arm protractor, 6 inch; brass, divided in

Mathematics

1876

Barktrometer for measuring the density of tanning liquor

Experimental Chemistry

1876

Abbe type Liquid Refractometer, by Carl Zeiss, Jena, German,1876

Optics

1876