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New Zealand coal, pitch coal from Shag Point, Otag

Metallurgy

before 1873

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

Optics

1876

Protractor scale

Mathematics

1876

Rimless clip eyeglasses with smoke flat lenses and

Optics

1874

Edelmann's mirror galvanometer

Electricity and Magnetism

1876

Components, Holtz induction electric machine

Electricity and Magnetism

1876

Siemens compound relay, 1876

Telecommunications

1876

photograph, Herschel's Prismatic Apparatus

Art

1876

Shaly lignite from the Dranista Coalfield, Katerin

Metallurgy

before 1874

Point, one of three, for enlarged sectional compass dividers

Mathematics

1876

True-course finder

Navigation

1876

Case with accessories for No.1 microscope

Microscopes

1874

Receipt from John Neal, 1876

Art

1876

photograph, Gravesande's Pneumatic Pump

Art

1876

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

Cinematography

1876

William Rutherford's freezing microtome

Microscopes

1873-1876

Dissected cone

Mathematics

1876

photograph, Transit of Venus Altazimuth

Art

1876

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

Wellcome (general)

1873

Ship's biscuit, England, 1875

Wellcome (general)

1875

'The Goblin Court', Royal Polytechnic Institution lantern slide

Cinematography

1875

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

Mathematics

1876

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

Mathematics

1876

Prison record sheet

Photographs

1873

Thomas Henry Huxley

Charles Henry Jeens

1876

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1875

Copper ore from Fronteriza Mine, Spain, presented

Metallurgy

1874

Plotting scale

Mathematics

1876
Walschaerts radial valve motion (right hand side) from 0-4-4-0T double Fairlie locomotive 'Snake', No. 238 Class 'B', built by Avonside Engine Co., Bristol, 1874 for Otago Provincial Council, New Zealand, believed to be one of the first locomotives to be built in Great Britain with Walschaert's valve gear, after a boiler accident in c.1881 the valve gear and cylinders were incorporated into a steam crane.

Walschaert's valve gear from double Fairlie locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1874

Coal from New South Wales, Greta Colliery, 35 mile

Metallurgy

before 1873

Case, for replica of Forel plemyrameter

Geophysics

1873; 1916-1926

James Young Simpson

Wellcome (general)

1874

Coal from New South Wales; ref: Mines and Mineral

Metallurgy

before 1873

Plotting scale

Mathematics

1876

Tube for Symons barometer

Meteorology

1874

Portable Sikes' hydrometer by Dring and Fage, 19 a

Experimental Chemistry

1873

piece of metal rescued from the abbots ripton accident

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1876

Physiological Mercury Thermometer, 1876

Heat

1876

Coal from Vancouver's Coal Mines and Land Company'

Metallurgy

before 1873

Stanley's 5-inch improved drawing pen

Mathematics

1876

Piece of highly carburised steel, from Messrs. Fri

Metallurgy

1876

Delineator (Perspective instrument)

Mathematics

1876

Point, one of three, for enlarged sectional compass dividers

Mathematics

1876

photograph, Ramsden's Small Theodolite

Art

1876

photograph, Gramme's Machine

Art

1876

photograph, Gyrometric Governor

Art

1876

photograph, Fixed Harbour

Art

1876

photograph, Gramme's Machine for demonstrating

Art

1876

photograph, Air-pump with two barrels

Art

1876

photograph, Double Needle Telegraph

Art

1876