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Portable chemistry set

Experimental Chemistry

1880

Kelvin's harmonic analyser

Mathematics

1878

Kuo Tajen

Photographs

1880

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Tinfoil phonograph, 1880

Sound Reproduction

1880

Protector Lamp Co. miner's unb

Coal Mining

c. 1880
Brass locomotive bell, on teak base, from 5000th locomotive built by Baldwin locomotive works for the Philadelphia Railway, USA, 1880.

baldwin locomotive bell

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1880
Locomotive nameplate `Jubilee', brass, possibly original, ex 0-4-4 ST locomotive built by Black, Hawthorn & Co., 1880, scrapped c.1965.

Locomotive nameplate - Jubilee

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1880

Very early Edison carbon filament lamp.

Lighting

1879

Mummy of a crocodile, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Submarine cable laid across the River Medina, Isle of Wight, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

John Scott Russell

Photographs

1878

Hoare Bi-unial Magic Lantern

Cinematography

1880

Spectroscope of type used by Kirchhoff & Bunsen

Optics

1880

Ebonised clock from the Manchester Reform Club

Time Measurement

c. 1880

Ordinary Cycle 'The Windsor'

Road Transport

1878
Brass plate of London, Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive inscribed "Brighton Works 1878"

Brass plate of London, Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1878
Combination ejector for automatic vacuum brake, standard type, patented by J. Gresham in 1878-1881, sectioned, on stand.

gresham combination ejector for vacuum brake

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1878-1881
Locomotive Worksplate, Fox Walker & Co (Bristol) No. 410, ex works November 1878, 0-6-0 saddle tank locomotive inside cylinder, new to North Pembrokeshire & Fishguard Railway "Margaret", to Great Western Railway February 1898 No. 1378, sold to Gwendraeth Valley Railway as No. 2 in 1910, to Kidwelly Tinplate Co. Ltd in 1923, out of use from 1941, now preserved at Scolton Manor Museum, near Haverfordwest.

fox walker & co worksplate

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1878

Specimens illustrating the unintentional welding t

Metallurgy

before 1880
Track gauge, London & North Western Railway, wooden track gauge with brass ends, spring loaded, spirit level in centre marked:- "L & NW Rly. Permanent Way Dept. No.8", made by Stanley, London, for standard gauge track.

Track gauge, London & North Western Railway

Tools of the Trade & Personal Accessories

1880

Professor Huxley

Photographs

1880

Sir Phillip Cunliffe Owen

Photographs

1880

William Powell Frith

Photographs

1880

Charles Robert Darwin

Photographs

1878

Rackwork polarising magic lantern slide

Cinematography

c. 1880

Photograph of gibbous Moon

Astronomy

1880

Tinfoil phonograph, made by Brehmer Bros., Philade

Sound Reproduction

1880
Ship's bell, brass, Great Western Railway, inscribed "Pembroke", from the Paddle Steamship/Twin-Screw Steamship Pembroke, allocated to the Irish service from Milford, converted in 1895, transferred to Weymouth and ran on the Channel Islands service, built by Laird Bros, 1880, withdrawn and broken up 1925.

ship's bell pembroke

Railway Shipping

1880

W. H. Bailey & Co Hot-Air Engine

Motive Power

1880

Magic lantern slide: Lion

Cinematography

1880

Hall typewriter in portable walnut case, 1881

Printing & Writing

1881
Walking stick, made from telegraph wires which passed over the old Tay Bridge before the Disaster of 1879, made by John McKay a labourer of Tayport Harbour, (broken).

Walking stick made from telegraph wires from Tay Bridge

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1879

Whitworth Lathe No. 626

Hand and Machine Tools

1880

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1991-1786 BCE

Uterine probe, Playfair, aluminium

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1901-950

Solar Corona 1878 July 29, Wyoming, glass transpar

Astronomy

1878

Memorial stele to the doorkeepr Ruma

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Henry M Stanley

Photographs

1880
Gower-Bell telephone transmitter, Post Office pattern with porcelain mouthpiece, made by Scott and Wollaston, England, 1881

Gower-Bell telephone transmitter, 1881

Telecommunications

1881

Gower-Bell pattern carbon-rod microphone, mounted on thin plywood sheet, 1881

Telecommunications

1881

Model apparatus for transmitting pictures by telegraph, 1881

Telecommunications

1881

Underground oil-filled telegraph cable system, 1880

Telecommunications

1880

Antiseptic machine, England, 1879

Surgery

1879

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

Building Construction

2000-1001 BCE

Seal and stamp - Newhaven Gas and Coke Company

Gas Industry

1879

Photographic brooch

Photographs

c. 1880

Maximum Mercury and Minimum Alcohol Thermometer by J.J. Griffin & Sons, 1880

Heat

1880

Richard Owen

Photographs

1878

Anthony Trollope

Photographs

1878