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Locomotive nameplate, "Engineer Walsall", brass, originally ex London & North Western Railway "Samson" class No. 2151 "Baltic", built November 1874, carried this plate 1901-1923, then fitted to London & North Western Railway "Waterloo" class 2-4-0 No 2420 (originally No 609 "Earl of Chester", built April 1893), scrapped February 1928 as LMS No.5094.

Nameplate, London & North Western Railway "Engineer Walsall"

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1893

Two photographs, (7"x5"), from a collection of 51 photograph

Photographs

1897

Four photographs, (7"x5"), from a collection of 51 photograp

Photographs

1897

Crandall no 3 typewriter, 1893

Printing & Writing

1893
Desk, Highland Railway, ornate roll-top desk with engraved silver plaque: "Presented to David Jones Esq. Locomotive Engineer by the Employees of the Locomotive, Carriage & Wagon Depts., Highland Railway on his retirement...." 31st October 1896.

highland railway desk presented to david jones on his retirement

Railway Furniture

1896
One of three fluorescent screens for use with x-ray installation, c. 1896-1897.

uorescent screens for use with x-ray installation, 1896-1897

X-rays

1896-1897

Slide-wire Potentiometer for industrial use (1893

Electricity and Magnetism

1893

Circular silver medal, commemorates unknown Hungar

Wellcome Medals

1895

Ford typewriter, machine no. 618, c. 1895

Printing & Writing

1895

Railway commemorative Mug

Railways

1895

Chemical balance by Sartorius in glazed wooden cas

Experimental Chemistry

c. 1894

Water turbine and generator

Motive Power

1894
Locomotive worksplate, "Neilson & Co. 4542 Glasgow 1893", cast brass, oval, ex London & South Western Railway 0-4-2 A12 "Jubilee" class No 643, built March 1893, withdrawn July 1947.

Worksplate, Neilson & Co.

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1893
Stained glass panel, 1895, ex Manchester Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway Gorton Works, demolished 1957, illustrating MS&LR coat-of-arms.

Stained glass panel, Manchester Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1895

China plug and socket by Neale, 1895

Electricity Supply

1895
Actinometer watch-type meter, full size, in engine-turned silver case. Hallmarked AW 'X' for 1897. Round meter with white face and insturction booklet.

Wynne's Infallible Exposure Meter in silver case

Photographic Technology

1897
Original enamel tin packing for Wynne's Infallible Exposure Photographic Exposure Meter, with chamois leather pouch, card of plate speeds and instruction book, marked 'June 1921'.

Wynne's Infallible Exposure Meter in silver case

Photographic Technology

1897
Watch type actinometer in solid silver case hallmarked for Birmingham. Gothic in style 't', 'A.W.' 1893. Back engraved with crowned A monogram and the Prince of Wales feathers. With rose, thistle and shamrock decoration. Wynne.

Queen Alexandra's Wynne's Infallible exposure meter

Photographic Technology

1893

Photograph of a half tone print

Radiomedicine

1896
Circular metal canister for film magazine used in 'Magic Photoret' detective camera unexposed films. Magic introduction company. 1894.

Canister for 'Photoret' Film Magazine

Photographic Technology

1894
'Magic Photoret' pocket watch detective camera for 2 inch diameter circular film, six exposures, 12 x 12mm. Pinhole lens rotating shutter, single speed, hole for pin stop as for time exposure, Circular film held in back of camera front rotates to six positions. Patents July 25th 1893 Nov 28. 1893. Magic introduction company. 1894. Designer William K L Dickson. Takes six hexagonal photographs on a 'disc' of film.

'Magic Photoret' detective camera

Photographic Technology

1894

Pear shaped Crookes' tube with cross engraved on i

Electricity and Magnetism

1896
Locomotive Worksplate, LNER, "London & North Eastern Railway 9291, 1894", cast metal, oval, N5 0-6-2 tank locomotive GCR 9, by Beyer Peacock (3624) November 1894, renumbered 5753 in 1924, 9291 in 1946, British Railways 69291, withdrawn November 1955.

Locomotive worksplate, London & North Eastern Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1894
Medal, silver, with ribbon awarded to Private T. Hughes Shrophire Light Infantry by the Hong Kong Community for services rendered during the plague of 1894, Hong Kong, 1894

Medal awarded to Private T. Hughes

Wellcome Medals

1894

Edelmann moving magnet milli-ammeter

Electricity Supply

c. 1897

Pocket Kodak Box Camera

Photographic Technology

1896

Lanchester Car No.2

Road Transport

1897

A lantern slide of Ilfracombe

Cinematography

c. 1893

Lantern slide of sea waves by Birt Acres

Cinematography

c. 1893

A lantern slide of Woolacombe

Cinematography

c. 1893

Lantern slide of a seascape by Birt Acres

Cinematography

c. 1893

Lantern slide of a Cathedral by Birt Acres

Cinematography

c. 1893

Lantern slide of a cottage by Birt Acres

Cinematography

c. 1893

Lantern slide of the Bristol Channel by Birt Acres

Cinematography

c. 1893

Stethoscope

Sound Reproduction

1895

Bell Double Pole Post Office Telephone Receiver (c

Electricity and Magnetism

1894
Carriage vestibule door, Belfast & County Down Railway, ex royal saloon No. 153, c. 1897.

Carriage vestibule door, Belfast & County Down Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1897

box roll-film camera

Photographic Technology

c.1895
Serving dish cover, silver plated, North Eastern Railway, plain with button finial, garter "NER Refreshment Rooms Darlington", by Elkington & Co, 1896.

Silver plated cover for serving dish, North Eastern Railway Refreshment Rooms, Darlington

Passenger Comforts

1896

Glazed ware Drain Fitting, 1896

Sewerage & Sanitation

1896
Small flat metal pendant in form of four-leaf clover, charm for general good luck, brought about by 1515, engraved symbols and date 1893, French, 1893

Metal pendant in form of four-leaf clover

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1893

McVitie Weston valve collection, Perrin tube valve

Electronic Components

1895

Small pear shaped x-ray tube of English manufactur

X-rays

1896

Record for gramophone by HMV, 1897.

Sound Reproduction

1897
Stained glass panel, Manchester Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway, ex Gorton Works boardroom, Manchester, 1895, illustrating the coats-of-arms of East Retford.

stained glass panel from gorton works

Railway Infrastructure

1897
Stained glass panel, Manchester Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway, ex Gorton Works boardroom, Manchester, 1895, illustrating the coats-of-arms of Birkenhead.

stained glass panel from gorton works

Railway Infrastructure

1895
Stained glass panel, Manchester Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway, ex Gorton Works boardroom, Manchester, 1895, illustrating the coats-of-arms of Stockport.

stained glass panel from gorton works

Railway Infrastructure

1895

H.G. Wells as a young man

Photographs

c 1893

Spherical nickel plated brass Troy weight

Weighing & Measuring

1894

Arc light rectifier

Electricity Supply

c.1894