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Bronze medal commemorating the Hugarian doctors an

Wellcome Medals

1876

Coal from Vancouver's Coal Mines and Land Company'

Metallurgy

before 1873

Ereiniog prepared peat, from Portmadoc, and specimen of charcoal

Metallurgy

before 1875

One of eighty smoked glass slides recording blood pressures, with name, date, notes, etc., English, 1874. Unknown Maker.

1 of 80 smoked glass slides

Ophthalmology

1874

Two of eighty smoked glass slides recording blood pressures, with name, date, notes, etc., English, 1874. Unknown Maker.

2 of 80 smoked glass slides

Ophthalmology

1874

Case, cylindrical - with chain attached lid and funnel - for glass tubes, for Ocean depth-sounding machine, for marine vessel navigation

Navigation

1876

Stanley's 5 3/4-inch improved drawing pen

Mathematics

1876

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

Mathematics

1876

Plotting scale

Mathematics

1876

Plotting scale

Mathematics

1876

Parallel rule, 18 inch, wood, rolling type

Mathematics

1876

A timber slide rule; one slide; boxwood, made by D

Mathematics

1876

One curve (guide) pen

Mathematics

1876

Plotting scale

Mathematics

1876

Parallel rule, 18 inch, wood and ivory, scales on

Mathematics

1876

Cross callipers from excise instruments set

Mathematics

1876

Protractor scale

Mathematics

1876

Proportional compass:- Meeting point pattern

Mathematics

1876

Circular stone medallion, late 19th century, smoke-damaged, of John Hunter, surgeon and anatomist, from a facade in Marylebone. One of a set of five (Hunter, Jenner, Brodie, Cooper, Harvey) from the front of the Western General Dispensary in Conway Street, London.

Circular stone medallion, of John Hunter: Surgeon, from a Marylebone facade

Wellcome (general)

1873

Very delicate spiral bulb thermometer

Heat

1876

Plotting scale

Mathematics

1876

Panel, wooden, Great Western Railway, bearing Royal coat-of-arms, from Queen Victoria's Saloon No 9001, built 1874, broken up February 1912.

Wooden panel, Queen Victoria's saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1874

Thirty two of eighty smoked glass slides recording blood pressures, with name, date, notes, etc., English, 1874. Unknown Maker.

32 of 80 smoked glass slides

Ophthalmology

1874

Thirty one of eighty smoked glass slides recording blood pressures, with name, date, notes, etc., English, 1874. Unknown Maker.

31 of 80 smoked glass slides

Ophthalmology

1874

Fifty three of eighty smoked glass slides recording blood pressures, with name, date, notes, etc., English, 1874. Unknown Maker.

53 of 80 smoked glass slides

Ophthalmology

1874

Fifty nine of eighty smoked glass slides recording blood pressures, with name, date, notes, etc., English, 1874. Unknown Maker.

59 of 80 smoked glass slides

Ophthalmology

1874

Fifty seven of eighty smoked glass slides recording blood pressures, with name, date, notes, etc., English, 1874. Unknown Maker.

57 of 80 smoked glass slides

Ophthalmology

1874

Seventeen of eighty smoked glass slides recording blood pressures, with name, date, notes, etc., English, 1874. Unknown Maker.

17 of 80 smoked glass slides

Ophthalmology

1874

Fifteen of eighty smoked glass slides recording blood pressures, with name, date, notes, etc., English, 1874. Unknown Maker.

15 of 80 smoked glass slides

Ophthalmology

1874

Fifty six of eighty smoked glass slides recording blood pressures, with name, date, notes, etc., English, 1874. Unknown Maker.

56 of 80 smoked glass slides

Ophthalmology

1874

Sixty one of eighty smoked glass slides recording blood pressures, with name, date, notes, etc., English, 1874. Unknown Maker.

61 of 80 smoked glass slides

Ophthalmology

1874

Twenty four of eighty smoked glass slides recording blood pressures, with name, date, notes, etc., English, 1874. Unknown Maker.

24 of 80 smoked glass slides

Ophthalmology

1874

Twenty two of eighty smoked glass slides recording blood pressures, with name, date, notes, etc., English, 1874. Unknown Maker.

22 of 80 smoked glass slides

Ophthalmology

1874

Fourteen of eighty smoked glass slides recording blood pressures, with name, date, notes, etc., English, 1874. Unknown Maker.

14 of 80 smoked glass slides

Ophthalmology

1874

Nineteen of eighty smoked glass slides recording blood pressures, with name, date, notes, etc., English, 1874. Unknown Maker.

19 of 80 smoked glass slides

Ophthalmology

1874

Apparatus for both direct measurement, using a micrometer an

Industrial Metrology

1876

Ruler

Mathematics

1875

Scale model of 8-bladed Guibal

Coal Mining

c. 1875

Original Stephenson Paraboloid Condenser, c.1875

Microscopes

1875

Parrott Hydraulic Pump

Motive Power

1876

Straight-edge, wooden straight-edge used by the engineer who worked on Settle-Carlisle line.

Straight edge used by workers on the Settle-Carlisle line

Tools of the Trade & Personal Accessories

1876

Repeating Theodolite Circles 14 and 10.5cm respect

Surveying

1875

Silvered brass circular slide rule

Mathematics

1876

Polymeter plane table alidade, 1873-1876

Surveying

1873-1876

Patent Log by Reynolds 1875

Navigation

1875

Hans (Polaris ice-drift) and family

Photographs

1875-1876

Ear Mercury Thermometer, 1876

Heat

1876

metal cover for Remington No.1 typewriter

Printing & Writing

1876

Ceremonial Spade, Bradford Halifax & Keighley Railway, metal spade with wooden handle, engraved silver plaque attached to handle: "The First Sod of the Bradford & Thornton and Bradford Halifax & Keighley Railway was turned at Thorton Road, Bradford with this spade by Abraham Briggs Foster Esq. of Queensbury, Yorkshire on 10th March 1874".

ceremonial spade - bradford, halifax and keighley railway

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1874

Alloy of equal parts of silver and thallium. Made

Metallurgy

1876