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Crookes X-Ray Photographic Negative

X-rays

1896-01-20

Portable assay balance in fitted case

Experimental Chemistry

1895

Gulley trap model

Sewerage & Sanitation

1896

Glazed ware Drain Fitting, 1896

Sewerage & Sanitation

1896

Glass Engraved to Commemorate a Mining Accident, 1896

Mining & Ore Dressing

1896

Foot x-ray photograph by George Hugh Gabb

X-rays

1896-02-15

Pamphlet announcing 'The Rontgen Rays Demonstration, June 7th, 1896'

X-rays

1896

Ferranti consumption meter

Electricity Supply

c. 1895

Amulet, metal, coin with head of Queen Victoria an

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1894
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

Bell Double Pole Post Office Telephone Receiver (c

Electricity and Magnetism

1894

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

Chemical balance by Sartorius in glazed wooden cas

Experimental Chemistry

c. 1894

box roll-film camera

Photographic Technology

c.1895
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

Henderson type surveying Alidade, British, 1893

Surveying

1893

Lantern slide of sea waves by Birt Acres

Cinematography

c. 1893

Pear shaped Crookes' tube with cross engraved on i

Electricity and Magnetism

1896

Railway commemorative Mug

Railways

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
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
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
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

A lantern slide of Ilfracombe

Cinematography

c. 1893
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
Locomotive and tender, 4-8-0, 3' 6" gauge, wood burning, with 8-wheel double-bogie tender, built by Sharp Stewart in 1896 for the Cape Government Railway, later South African Railways. Locomotive number 390, later SAR 993, order number E1073 and T1073. Subsequently operated by Zambezi Sawmills Railway (also known as the Mulobezi Railway). Operated on the Mulobezi to Livingstone line. Length 51 4"; width 8'; height 12'.

Cape Government locomotive and tender 4-8-0, 1896

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1896
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
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

China plug and socket by Neale, 1895

Electricity Supply

1895

H.G. Wells as a young man

Photographs

c 1893

Pocket Kodak Box Camera

Photographic Technology

1896
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
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

Spherical nickel plated brass Troy weight

Weighing & Measuring

1894

Arc light rectifier

Electricity Supply

c.1894

Crookes X-Ray Photographic Negative

X-rays

1896-01-20

Record for gramophone by HMV, 1897.

Sound Reproduction

1897

Invitation to 'The Rontgen Rays Photography Demonstration, June 7th, 1986

X-rays

1896

Photograph of a half tone print

Radiomedicine

1896

Minimum alcohol thermometer, by James Joseph Hicks, 1895

Meteorology

1895

cylindrical slide rule

Weighing & Measuring

1897

Globe typewriter, 1896, serial no.3754

Printing & Writing

1896
Original carton for Kombi camera. Alfred C Kemper, Chicago.

Carton for The Kombi Camera

Photographic Technology

1893
Locomotive worksplate, "Neilson & Co 5037 Glasgow 1896", brass, oval, ex Midland & Great Northern Railway "D" class 0-6-0 No 63, subsequently London & North Eastern Railway "J40" class No 063, built 1896, withdrawn February 1937.

Worksplate, Neilson & Co.

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1896