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Steam locomotive, 'Beattie Well Tank'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1873

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

Geophysics

1876

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

Public Health & Hygiene

1873

Pyrophone

Acoustics

1873-1876

Gold lever watch by George Blackie

Clockmakers

1873

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

Clinical Diagnosis

1876

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

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

Telecommunications

1876

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

Catgut suture cord preserved in oil

Surgery

1875

model sykes lock and block signalling system

Railway Models

1875

Bronze ticket medal for admission and commemoratio

Wellcome Medals

1876

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

Railway Models

1873

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

Lithograph of Daniel Spills Ivorideworks by Daniel Greenaway, 1875

Art

1875

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

Mounted photographs of the Sun

Astronomy

1876

Hofmann's lecture-room eudiometer (U tube on stand)

Experimental Chemistry

1876

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

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE

Repeating Theodolite, Horizontal and vertical circles

Surveying

1875

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1875

Crossley Brothers Atmospheric Gas Engine

Motive Power

1874

Packets of smallpox vaccination points, London, 1873

Public Health & Hygiene

1873

Thermometer screen, with a minimum alcohol thermometer

Meteorology

1875

8" experimental compass in wood and glass display box

Navigation

1873-1876

Hofmann's apparatus for shewing the synthesis of w

Experimental Chemistry

1876

Plate, ceramic, commemorating golden jubilee of the Stockton-Darlington Railway, September 27th 1875, manufactured by B. Wardle, Middlesbrough, black transfer on white depicting statue of Joseph Pease. Dimensions 8 1/2" diameter.

Commemorative plate, Stockton & Darlington Railway

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1875

True-course finder

Navigation

1876

Saint's sewing machine, 1874.

Textiles Machinery

1874

Seismochronograph designed by Arnold von Lasaulx, c. 1876

Geophysics

1876

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

Cinematography

1876

'The Goblin Court', Royal Polytechnic Institution lantern slide

Cinematography

1875

Meidinger battery cell

Electricity and Magnetism

1876

Parallel rule, 6-inch, ivory and electrum (double

Mathematics

1876

Dr W H Russell

Photographs

1876

Ship's biscuit, England, 1875

Wellcome (general)

1875

Hofmann's gas Demonstration Apparatus.

Experimental Chemistry

1875-1876

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

Cinematography

1876

Portrait of a prisoner

Photographs

1873

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

Mathematics

1876

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

The 'Tachylemme' ready reckoner, c 1876.

Mathematics

c.1876

Parallel rule, 18 inch, ebony and brass ordinary p

Mathematics

1876