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Surveyor's transit theodolite.

Surveying

1876

Photograph of an objective prism of Merz

Astronomy

1876

Patent Stanley drawing pricker

Mathematics

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

Brass rolling centrolinead, with selection of 11

Mathematics

1876

True-course finder

Navigation

1876

Prism with two compartments for liquids, angle 43

Optics

1876

10-Inch JuniorTrig 0902 Aristo slide rule from the

Mathematics

1970-1875
Bridge notice, Midland Railway, signed James Williams, 1875, white letters on red

Notice, Midland Railway

Railway Infrastructure

1875
Locomotive Worksplate, Hudswell Clarke & Rodgers (Leeds), 1876, brass, rectangular.

hudswell clarke worksplate

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1876

Model illustrating the Surface of Luminous Waves

Mathematics

1876

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

Navigation

1876

Packets of smallpox vaccination points, London, 1873

Public Health & Hygiene

1873

Trammel for drawing ellipses, 1876.

Mathematics

1876
Parallel rule, 6-inch, ivory and electrum, ordinary pattern, (single parallelogram)

Parallel rule, 6-inch, ivory and electrum, ordinar

Mathematics

1876

Isograph

Mathematics

1876

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

Cinematography

1876

John Everett Millais

Photographs

1876

William Rutherford's freezing microtome

Microscopes

1873-1876

Drawing pen for red ink, 5 5/8 inch, Great Turnsti

Mathematics

1876
Lever escapement watch by George Blackie in a gold engine-turned case. White enamel dial with a subsidiary seconds dial and up-and-down indicator. Helical balance-spring. Signed ‘Geoe. Blackie fecit 392, Strand, London No. 742’. Engraved on the back plate ‘Nelthropp prize winner 1873’. Hallmarked for 1873.

Gold lever watch by George Blackie

Clockmakers

1873
Plaster model to illustrate the torsion of a rectangular prism.

Plaster model to illustrate the torsion of a rectangular prism

Mathematics

1876

Model showing the Torsion of a Prism having Ridges

Mathematics

1876

Catalan collection of semi-regular polyhedra

Mathematics

1876

Memorial stele to the doorkeepr Ruma

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

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

Wellcome (general)

1873

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales

Photographs

1876-07-17

The Earl of Shaftesbury

Photographs

1876

Samuel Plimsoll

Photographs

1876

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1991-1786 BCE

Ship's biscuit, England, 1875

Wellcome (general)

1875

Uterine probe, Playfair, aluminium

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1901-950

Set of thirteen rock crystal weights: 50 grammes to 0.1 gramme, in ebony case

Weighing & Measuring

1876

'Prima Donna' folding eyeglasses with oval lenses

Optics

1874

Hofmann's gas Demonstration Apparatus.

Experimental Chemistry

1875-1876

James Young Simpson

Wellcome (general)

1874

Barktrometer for measuring the density of tanning liquor

Experimental Chemistry

1876
Rail section, Midland Railway Settle & Carlisle pattern 81 lb bullhead, laid Thackley Tunnel 1873, finally scrapped 1901 at 43½ lb weight, mounted on original profile plate on mahogany panel with engraved brass plaque recording history, c1901.

Rail section, Midland Railway

Railway Infrastructure

1873

Part of sow from lead smelting in the Rachette Fur

Metallurgy

1873

Seismochronograph designed by Arnold von Lasaulx, c. 1876

Geophysics

1876

Square pavement brick from Babylonia (Southern Iraq), 2nd millennium BC.

Building Construction

2000-1001 BCE

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

Mathematics

1876

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

Mathematics

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

Prison record sheet

Photographs

1873
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

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

Navigation

1876

Two glass revenue hydrometers by Tagliabue, New Yo

Experimental Chemistry

1875

Orion Nebula

Astronomy

1876