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Chislett's conical electro-magnetic machine, 1873

Electricity and Magnetism

1880

Salsbury, cycle-hub oil lamp.

Road Transport

c.1880

Carbon filament lamp made by Swan Electric Light Co. Ltd

Lighting

c. 1881

Gettysburg - 3rd Day...

Photographs

1882-12

Modern tube protector, 1880

Telecommunications

1880

Citadel and Mosque of Mohamed Ali

Photographs

1882-12

Provision shop in Cairo

Photographs

1882-12

Lady Strangford's Hospital

Photographs

1882-12

Goods invoice for cotton yarn transported on the London & North Western Railway through Liverpool Road Station on 16 June 1882.

London and North Western Railway goods invoice

Thomas Hughes

Photographs

1880

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Demonstration equipment showing expansion of brass and iron

Heat

1880

Model steam locomotive, scale 1:12, live steam, 0-6-6-0, double Fairlie locomotive, no. 284, 1879 on machined brass and mahogany bridge stand with integral turntables and rollers to demonstrate articulation when running, prototype not known but possibly built by Avonside of Bristol. Purchased by the Science Museum from Regent Street Polytechnic.

Fairlie steam locomotive model

Railway Models

1879

print. steel engraving. Blanchard's Descent, plate

Art

1879

Thermometer, fahrenheit with ring-shaped bulb, in

Clinical Diagnosis

1880

Hydrometer by W. Geissler, Amsterdam, 1881.

Experimental Chemistry

1881

Lowne's patent colliery air me

Coal Mining

c.1880

Microscope attachment for oblique illumination, c.

Microscopes

1880

Morse sounder, c.1880. Double plate sounder., in wooden case with needle and dial at the top. Last used over railway telegraph circuits to transmit Morse code through a reversal of the current to distinguish dot from dash. The needle moved to left and right.

Morse code sounder used over railway telegraph circuits

Telecommunications

c.1880

Flat bottomed "egg-bottle", embossed Saunders Ltd.

Glass Technology

1880

Pig-iron produced at the Summit Foundry, West Brom

Metallurgy

1881

Hydrometer set in wooden case by J.F. Van Deene, A

Experimental Chemistry

1882, 1899

Carbon arc lamp

Lighting

c.1881

Locomotive worksplate, brass, oval, Lilleshall Co, Engineers, 1880, Shropshire.

lilleshall & co worksplate

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1880

"Rough sketch of James Nasmyths' apparatus by whic

Astronomy

1879

Jug, 2 pint, silver plated, Great Eastern Railway, made by Elkington & Co, Birmingham, 1882; curved shape, "GER" in script letters surmounted by dragon's wing.

Silver plated jug, Great Eastern Railway

Passenger Comforts

1882

Locomotive Worksplate, "The Weardale Steel Coal & Coke Co. Limited, Tudhoe Iron Works, rebuilt 1909", brass, oval, ex 0-6-0ST OC originally built by Black Hawthorn (704/1882) No. 19, scrapped at Easington.

locomotive worksplate

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1882

Tinfoil phonograph, 1880

Sound Reproduction

1880

Mustard grinder, Swedish, c.1880

Domestic Appliances

1880

Telephone receiver 1881, earpiece marked 'United T

Telecommunications

1881

Crompton 6" voltmeter no.179- c.1882, 0 - 300v.

Electricity Supply

c. 1882

Experimental television apparatus, 1882:- telephon

Telecommunications

1882

Experimental television apparatus, 1882:- electrom

Telecommunications

1882

Knott and Wood makers plate

Coal Mining

c. 1880

Pint measure, bronze, inscribed: 'County of Hertford, 1879, Imperial Pint'

Weighing & Measuring

1879

Length of red silk ribbon worn as a belt to promot

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-120

Dissection(?) set, leatherette, dated 1880, French

Surgery

1880

Snuff mull in form of ram's head on three castels, oval, two compartment silver box with cairngorm, by J. Robertson and Son, 101 Princes Street, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1881-1882.

Snuff mull in form of ram's head on three castels,

Smoking

1881-1882

Wray Rectilinear Lens

Photographic Technology

1880

Air meter, No 162, in wooden c

Coal Mining

c.1880

Biram-type anemometer

Coal Mining

c. 1880

Condensing lenses and prism

Scientific Instruments & Research

1879

Brass upright stand and plate to support apothecar

Pharmacy-ware

Pre-1882

Spectroscope of type used by Kirchhoff & Bunsen

Optics

1880

Rag Cutting Table

Papermaking

c.1880

Notice, Severn Bridge Swing Bridge, 'Rules for Working', painted wood, 765mm x 1090mm, 1879.

Wooden notice, Severn Bridge Swing Bridge - 'Rules for Working'

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1879

Lowdown Suite W.C. pedestal and tank, the "Darnley

Domestic Appliances

1882

Spandrel, Eastern & Midlands Railway, cast iron, interlocking initials, ex Norwich City Station, opened 2nd December 1882, closed 2nd March 1959.

Eastern & Midlands Railway cast iron spandrel

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1882

Tinfoil phonograph, made by Brehmer Bros., Philade

Sound Reproduction

1880

Artificially crystallised copper. Boston Silver Sm

Metallurgy

1880