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Bronze medal to commemorate the death of D. Rokitansky, the Czechoslovakian pathologist, artist Jauner, 1878

Bronze medal to commemorate the death of Rokitansky

Wellcome Medals

1878

Zoetrope strip entitled 'The Cure', by the London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company, about 1880. Paper and ink with watercolour wash.

Zoetrope strip: 'The Cure'

Cinematography

c. 1880

Zoetrope strip entitled 'Steeplechase', by the London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company, about 1880. Paper and ink with watercolour wash.

Zoetrope strip: 'Steeplechase'

Cinematography

c. 1880

Zoetrope strip entitled 'Celarius Waltz', by the London Stereoscopic and Photographic Company, about 1880. Paper and ink with watercolour wash.

Zoetrope Strip 'Celarius Waltz'

Cinematography

c. 1880

Wrought iron segment from Beaumont's 1880 Channel Tunnel heading

Wrought iron segment from Beaumont's 1880 Channel

Civil Engineering

1880

Vacuum tube to show that cathode rays would cause phosphorescence after turning a corner

Vacuum tube to show that cathode rays would cause

Electricity and Magnetism

1880

Book, "Historical Notes on the Bradford Corporation", by William Cudworth, Bradford, Thomas Brear, 1881. Contains nineteen Woodbury type plates

Historical Notes on the Bradford Corporation

Photographs

1881

Bradbury Universal Feed Lockstitch Repairing and Bootmaking Sewing Machine 1876

shoe maker's sewing machine

Textiles Machinery

1878

Bronze medal presented to the Duke of Galliera for his munificence to the sick, Italy, 1880

Bronze medal presented to the Duke of Galliera for

Wellcome Medals

1880

Piece of phosphorized wrought iron found in the slag from a basic converter, at the Staffordshire Steel and Ingot Iron Company, Bilston, communicated by F.W. Harbord

Sample of Phosphorised Wrought Iron, 1878

Metallurgy

1878

Doubleday and Humber tricycle, 1878

Doubleday and Humber tricycle

Road Transport

1878-1880

Kelvin's harmonic analyser for tidal computations, 1878

Kelvin's harmonic analyses for tidal computations,

Geophysics

1878

Guidebook, London & South Western Railway, "Illustrated Tourist Guide", 1879, places to visit, cost new 1d, 32 pages.

illustrated tourist guide

Library Collections

1879

Silver gelatin print from a photostat, entitled 'Occident Trotting Stride 17ft 9in' by Edweard Muybridge, Plate IX from 'The Horse in Motion', copy made 1931 from original 1878 photograph.

Occident Trotting

Cinematography

1931 (1878)

Silver medal, commemorates Jeno Zichy, artist A.Scharff, medal Hungarian, 1879

Medal commemorating Jeno Zichy

Wellcome Medals

1879

Silver Medal South London Photographic Society. Awarded E Dunmore, Artisitic Competition, 1881. 42mm diameter.

Silver Medal South London Photographic Society

Printed Materials & Ephemera

1881

Cycle ball bearings, (unspecified)

Bicycle ball bearings

Road Transport

c. 1880

Criminal photographic studio posing chair. Wooden with metal head support at the back. Manufactured in Germany, about 1880.

Criminal Posing Chair, c 1880

Photographic Technology

c 1880

Tailboard form folding wooden camera for 5 x 4 inch plates. Fitted with a Ross achromat lens No.17737 in sliding mount. Sliding rising front. Rack and pinion focusing on ack. Upward hinging ground glass focusing screen. Baseboard locked by sliding panel.

Late wet plate folding camera

Photographic Technology

1880

Medal of Paris Universal Exhibition, 1878. Plastic, red; 47 mm diameter, 6mm deep. Obverse: Coat of arms RF [republique francaise], Pax, 1878. Reverse: Exposition Universelle Paris; exhibition building.

Medal, Paris Universal Exhibition, France, 1878

Coins, Medals & Tokens

1878

Painted(?) bronze effect, medal awarded to N. Joueanton, by Union of South-West Pharmacists, French, 1878

Painted(?) bronze effect, medal awarded to N. Joue

Wellcome Medals

1878

Stevengraph, unmounted, "The Good Old Days", illustrating mailcoach, c. 1870.

The Good Old Days - stevengraph

Miscellanea & Curiosities

c. 1879

Paper (newsprint), listing: 'Stevengraph pure silk woven pictures', stevengraph works, Coventry and stevengraph, "The Good Old Days". Depicting Royal Mail Coach. Silk picture in card frame, woven by Thomas Stevens, Coventry and London. 8"x5 1/4"

The Good Old Days

Miscellanea & Curiosities

c. 1879

Tube of oxide of zinc formed on a cupel in which zinc was heated in a muffle, produced at the Metallurgical Laboratory, Jermyn Street, 1880

Tube of oxide of zinc formed on a cupel in which z

Metallurgy

1880

Medal, silver, probably membership of the Society of the Waters of Trouville, France by Meissenbourg based on Ingres, French, 1879

Medal, silver, probably membership of the Society

Wellcome Medals

1879

2 small circular medals with silk ribbons, commemorates Association of French Ladies, France, 1879

2 small circular medals with silk ribbons, commemo

Wellcome Medals

1879

Medal, silvered bronze, Michel Eugene Chevreul, centenary(?), O. Roty, artist

Medal, silvered bronze, Michel Eugene Chevreul, ce

Wellcome Medals

1880

Human skin, tattooed with figure of soldier with bugle, probably French, dated 1881

Human skin, tattooed with figure of soldier with b

Anatomy & Pathology

1881

Large wooden crate containing a number of machine parts for Lathe no. 626, including 21 change wheels (cogs) of varying sizes. Approximately 30 machine parts in total including a tin of bolts and gauges. Lathe no. 626 is a precision screw-cutting lathe dating from about 1880.

Whitworth Lathe No. 626

Hand and Machine Tools

1880

Dessert fork, silver plated. Ex BR(LMR) officers mess, Euston - 1948-1990. No railway markings on fork. Made by Elkington & Co., Birmingham, 1879. Overall: 19 mm x 184 mm x 23 mm, 0.05kg.

Silver plated dessert fork, ex BR(LMR) officers mess, Euston - 1948-1990

Passenger Comforts

1879

Travel Guide, London & North Western Railway, "Tourist Guide", 1879, incorporating timetable and information, cost 1d, 32 pages, soft cover.

travel guide - tourist guide

Library Collections

1879

Cast iron fire grate with convection surround, by T. Potter and Son, London, 1880, from the Workhouse, Edgware

Cast iron fire grate with convection surround, by

Domestic Appliances

1880

Photograph, mounted print, paper on card, "York Station England - Prof. Men & Others Engaged on the Works", photographer unknown, circa 1878, acquired by John Haslam, 1879. John Haslam worked for the NER Architect's Office, and was assistant engineer on the construction of York Station and the other railway buildings between 1874 and 1879. In 1879 he moved to Australia to work for South Australian Railways in Adelaide. He may be included in this group photograph of 48 men in front of an incomplete part of York Station (second row, second from left).

York Station England - Prof. Men & Others Engaged on the Works

Photographic Collections (Railway)

c. 1878

Stevengraph, in card frame, marked Stephenson's "Triumph," Sixty Miles an Hour. The first train ran on 27 September 1825 from Stockton to Darlington. Woven in the York Exhibition, 1879, depicting 2-2-2 locomotive "Lord Howe" and two carriages.

Stephenson's "Triumph,"

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1879

Photograph of Roberts' tide predictor no. 1, 1879

Geophysics

1879

Two telephones from, Pair of Bell telephones made for the Princess of Wales in 1878 by personnel of H.M.S. "Thunderer"

Two telephones from, Pair of Bell telephones made

Telecommunications

1878

Crompton switch, 1880

Electricity Supply

1880

Bronze medal, struck in memory of Robert Friedrick Wilms, dated 24 Sep. 1880, by E. Weigand, German, 1880

Bronze medal, struck in memory of Robert Friedrick

Wellcome Medals

1880

Chemical balance by F. Sartorius, 1879 in wooden case.

Chemical balance

Weighing & Measuring

1879

Box for actress's travelling case. Glass with silver lid. Made by Thomas Whitehouse. Overall: 34 mm x 87 mm x 55 mm.

Silver and glass box for actress's travelling case

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1878

One of four Electrotype copies of a set of 4 avoirdupois weights, 7 lbs. Supposed to be of the date of Edward III. The originals are the property of the City of Winchester

Electrotype copy of a 7 lb avoirdupois weight, one of four

Weighing & Measuring

1878

'Ross' folding bellows field or stand camera for negatives 6 1/2 x 8 1/2. Double extension, square leather bellows, rising front and cross movement, swing and reversing back. Rack and pinion focusing. Back assembly slides on two brass struts. Fitted with a Ross Rapid Symmetrical lens of 12.5" f.1 with Waterhouse stops. Mahogany with brass fittings. Ross & Co c.1880.

'Ross' folding bellows field or stand camera

Photographic Technology

1880

Bookform double dark slide. Ross & Co 1880

bookform double darkslide

Photographic Technology

1880

Mould used for making hand made paper, c. 1880 (water-mark: "The Delhi and London Bank Ltd.")

Mould used for making hand made paper, c. 1880 (w

Papermaking

1880

Sir A. Garrod Thomas' Edinburgh M.D hood, by Christie and Kilpatrick, 104 South Bridge, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1878.

Sir A. Garrod Thomas' Edinburgh M.D hood, by Chris

Surgery

1878

Cake of blown metal and cinder from the Blaenavon Works, South Wales, produced in the Thomas-Gilchrist process.

Fragment of Metal and Cinder from Iron Making, 1878

Metallurgy

1878

Egyptian funerary statue of man and wife, granite, Old Kingdom, from plain of Memphis

Egyptian funerary statue of man and wife, granite

Classical & Medieval Medicine

4000-1000 BCE

Circular silver medal, with red enamelled cross on front, possibly commemorates war service, with the Red Cross(?), Russian, 1878

Circular silver medal, with red enamelled cross on

Wellcome Medals

1878

Bronze medal to commemorate the 300th anniversary of an unidentified establishment in the Netherlands, (Regenten?), by J. Elion and C. Kochussen, Netherlands, 1878.

Bronze medal

Wellcome Medals

1878

Circular copper medal, commemorates the 50th anniversary of Belgium's independence, and is a souvenir of a Brussels veterinary Congress, Belgian, 1880

Circular copper medal, commemorates the 50th anniv

Wellcome Medals

1880