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Voltmeter, permanent magnet type, Ayrton and Perry

Electricity and Magnetism

1881-1882

Voltmeter, permanent magnet type, Ayrton and Perry, 1881

Cherrywood tyrolean style tobacco pipe, bottle sha

Smoking

1885-1887

Cherrywood tyrolean style tobacco pipe, bottle shaped bowl with detachable lid on cord, curved cherry and tunnelwood stem, from Merano (?), Austrian or Italian 1887

Vesicular green slag from the blast-furnaces at Newland Iron Works, Ulverston

Metallurgy

before 1889

Vesicular green slagfrom the blast-furnaces at Newland Iron Works, Ulverston, communicated by E. Riley

Coal from Transvaal

Metallurgy

before 1889

Coal from Transvaal

Grigg's electromagnetic machine mounted in box wit

Therapeutics

1880-1890

Grigg's electromagnetic machine mounted in box with room for 2 cells, conical coil cover with multicore, invented and patented by Griggs, made by J.R. Chislett, English, 1880-1890

Henry M Stanley

Photographs

1880

A Woodburytype entitled 'Henry M Stanley', taken by Lock and Whitfield in 1880. This Woodburytype is taken from a series of seven volumes entitled 'Men of Mark'. Published between 1876 and 1883, each volume featured 36 portraits of prominent men of the time.

Gower-Bell telephone transmitter, 1881

Telecommunications

1881

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

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

Telecommunications

1881

Gower-Bell pattern carbon-rod microphone, mounted on thin plywood sheet, made by Scott and Wollaston, England, 1881

Horizontal induction coil with trembler arrangemen

Therapeutics

1880-1890

Horizontal induction coil with trembler arrangement and 4 terminals, on rectangular wooden base, probably English, 1880-1890

Model of Serpentine blade stern propeller

Marine Engines

1880-1883

Model of continuous or endless Serpentine blade steam-ship propeller, patented by McClennan and Owen in 1880, and steel display container, unsigned, British, 1880-1883

Copy of Rudge Phantascope Projector

Cinematography

1930 (1884)

Copy of Rudge projector, c. 1884 and two reproduction glass positives made for replica of Rudge's phantascope (wholeplate black and white positives).

Maskelyne typewriter, c1890.

Printing & Writing

c. 1890

Maskelyne differential spacing visible writing typewriter (series no.3) c. 1890, no. 1585

Memorial stele to the doorkeepr Ruma

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Memorial stele to the doorkeepr Ruma, showing his withered right leg, plaster copy of Egyptian original, 2000-1001BC. Made in Dantes Plad in Copenhagen (Denmark).

Twelve sheets of specimen papers with water-mark:

Papermaking

after 1880

Twelve sheets of specimen papers with water-mark: "The Delhi and London Bank Ltd."

Boy paddling in the sea

Photographs

c. 1890

A Kodak circular snapshot photograph of a boy paddling in the sea, taken by an unknown photographer, c. 1890. The photograph shows a young boy paddling as two little children sit in a boat watching.

Woman, boy and a pram

Photographs

c. 1890

A Kodak circular snapshot photograph of a woman with a young boy and a pram, taken by an unknown photographer, c. 1890. The photograph shows a woman tending to a baby in a pram in the park, as a young boy holds onto the side of the pram.

Beach photographers

Photographs

c. 1890

A Kodak circular snapshot photograph of a beach photographer with his portable darkroom, taken by an unknown photographer, c. 1890. For many years beach photographers were a common sight at the seaside. They took cheap, often technically poor, 'while-you-wait' portraits as souvenirs.

Ear, nose and throat plaster casts, Sutton, England, 1890

Anatomy & Pathology

1890

Collection of 13 plaster casts of diseased ENT organs, made by H. Brook, owned by Mr. Claude Woakes, English

Induction coil mounted on wooden base with tremble

Therapeutics

1880-1890

Induction coil mounted on wooden base with trembler, terminals and 3 way switch, possibly French, 1880-1890

Dorman and Smith lampholder, Manchester, 1888

Lighting

1888

Dorman and Smith lampholder, Manchester, 1888

Wheelwright's dowel or rung rounding plane. Marked

Hand and Machine Tools

1886

Wheelwright's dowel or rung rounding plane. Marked "1886"

Mains cable used in the Deptford Safety test

Electricity Supply

1889

A 10,000-volt mains electricity cable made by Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti. It was used in the safety test at Deptford power station where a chisel was driven into this section of live cable in 1889.

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

Building Construction

2000-1001 BCE

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

The "Perfect Vise"

Hand and Machine Tools

1890

Perfect vice, by J Parkinson and Son, Yorkshire, England

Basic crystalline slag

Metallurgy

before 1889

Basic crystalline slag, very similar to the last

Ladies keyless watch with duplex escapement

Time Measurement

1890

Waterbury, series N, ladies keyless watch with duplex escapement, c.1890

Muirhead Clark standard cell

Electricity and Magnetism

1888

Muirhead Clark standard cell

Parsons' steam turbine generator, 1884.

Motive Power

1884

Parsons' original Steam Turbine generator,1884

Williams typewriter, double-type bar machine, no.

Printing & Writing

1890

Williams typewriter, double-type bar machine, no. 3986, c. 1890

Carbon filament light bulb wit

Lighting

c. 1888

Carbon filament light bulb with pale blue glass, c. 1888

Meteoric iron, rusted portion reduced by carbonic oxide gas

Metallurgy

before 1889

Meteoric iron, rusted portion reduced by carbonic oxide gas, conducted by R. Smith, on portions of the largest meteorite in the British Museum and on the rust derived from it

Tombs of English killed at Tel-el-Kebir near the station

Photographs

1882-12-06

A photograph entitled 'Tombs of English killed at Tel el Kebir near the station', taken by an unknown photographer in December 1882. The photograph shows British graves on the battlefield of Tel-el-Kebir, Egypt.

Massive cinnabar, very rich in the ore

Metallurgy

before 1889

Massive cinnabar, very rich in the ore

Gas burner assembly

Optics

1881

Gas burner assembly from Anvil Point lighthouse, Swanage, 1881.

Kelvin quadrant electrometer

Electricity and Magnetism

1890

Kelvin quadrant electrometer

North African market

Photographs

c. 1890

A Kodak circular snapshot photograph of a North African market scene, taken by an unknown photographer, c. 1890. A cloaked figure stands in the foreground, whilst a tourist in a hat looks at the camera.

Regent Quadrant, London

Photographs

c. 1890

A photograph entitled 'Regent Quadrant, London', published by George Washington Wilson, c. 1890. The Quadrant is an arcade on Regent Street in London. Passengers on the horse drawn omnibus in the foreground sit under a huge sun shade with the words 'Metropolitan Railway' on it. A shop on the left advertises on the left is a Goldsmith and Mourning Jeweler.

Cairo

Photographs

1882-12

A photograph of people in a street in Cairo, Egypt, ' taken by an unknown photographer in December 1882.

Drawing room interior

Photographs

1888

A Kodak circular snapshot photograph of the drawing room at 11 Montague Place, London, taken by an unknown photographer in 1888. The photograph shows a typical mid-Victorian drawing room.

Photographic brooch

Photographs

c. 1880

An intricate brooch containing photographs of five family members mounted into four of five individual oval sections, taken by an unknown photographer, in about 1880. The father of the family appears at the top of the brooch. In the centre are the youngest boy and a girl, to the right, a young boy, and at the base an older boy. All the photographs have been hand coloured in blue, drawing attention to clothing and background. The empty mount to the left of the brooch may have contained the photograph of the mother of the family.

53 herbarium sheets of plants collected by Joseph Lister, 1883

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1883

53 herbarium sheets of plants collected by Joseph & Agnes Lister during a trip abroad to the Austro-Hungarian Empire (modern day Slovakia and Hungary). The majority of the specimens were collected during a trip in 1883.

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE

Earthenware oil jar, Egyptian, probably New Kingdom, 1580-1350BC

Wooden model of footstep bearing for a water turbine

Kinematics

1890

Wooden model of footstep bearing for a water turbine designed to work whilst submerged.

Pig-iron from Madras, called grey

Metallurgy

before 1889

Pig-iron from Madras, called grey

Chloride of mercury or calomel. Found at Altwasser, Hungary

Metallurgy

before 1889

Chloride of mercury or calomel. Found at Altwasser in Upper Hungary

Twice roasted ore-furnace regulus, "Kupferstein," Hettstedt

Metallurgy

before 1889

Twice roasted ore-furnace regulus, "Kupferstein," Hettstedt

Crystals in a metal slag, Swansea, 1883

Metallurgy

1883

Crystals in a metal slag, Swansea, 1883

Champion iron ore from Lake Superior

Metallurgy

before 1889

Champion iron ore from Lake Superior, smelted for Bessemer iron at the Dunbar Furnace, Pennsylvania

Grigg's electromagnetic machine, conical induction

Therapeutics

1880-1890

Grigg's electromagnetic machine, conical induction coil mounted on wooden base with brass fittings, made by Chislett, Plymouth, English, 1880-1890

Isobel and Pauline Adams in Pram

Photographs

c. 1890

A photograph entitled 'Isobel and Pauline Adams in Pram', taken by Edgar Tarry Adams, c. 1890. Two of Adams' children, Pauline and Isobel, sit in a pram wearing matching bonnets.