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Bronze medal to commemorate the 11th International Medical Congress, Rome, 1894, by Johnson, Italy, 1894

Bronze medal to commemorate the 11th International

Wellcome Medals

1894

Bennet gold-leaf electroscope

Electricity and Magnetism

1894

Substandard electric current balance, No.366, by James White, Glasgow, in glazed metal case with box of weights and fittings

Substandard electric current balance, No.366, by J

Electricity and Magnetism

1894

Circular bronze medal, commemorates Dr. Paul Tillaux, an member of the French Academy of Medicine, designed by J.c. Chaplain, French, 1894

Circular bronze medal, commemorates Dr. Paul Tilla

Wellcome Medals

1894

Alabaster bottle, Egyptian, probably New Kingdom, 1580-1350BC

Alabaster bottle, Egyptian, probably New Kingdom

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE

Page five from photographic album of Kodak circular snapshots, 'Elsham Paddocks' taken by an unknown photographer 1894.

Kodak Circular Snapshots

Photographs

1894

One of 16 spherical nickel plated, brass Troy weights, 1lb Tr., by L. Oertling verified by the Standards Department of the Board of Trade

Spherical nickel plated brass Troy weight

Weighing & Measuring

1894

One of 16 spherical nickel plated, brass Troy weights, 1/2 dr. (Avoirdupois), by L. Oertling verified by the Standards Department of the Board of Trade

Spherical nickel plated brass Troy weight

Weighing & Measuring

1894

One of 16 spherical nickel plated, brass Troy weights, 4oz. Tr., by L. Oertling verified by the Standards Department of the Board of Trade

Spherical nickel plated brass Troy weight

Weighing & Measuring

1894

One of 16 spherical nickel plated, brass Troy weights, 8 dr. (Avoirdupois), by L. Oertling verified by the Standards Department of the Board of Trade

Spherical nickel plated brass Troy weight

Weighing & Measuring

1894

Apparatus for breaking iron bars by force produced by contraction through cooling, by J. J. Griffin & Sons, London, England, 1894.

Apparatus for breaking iron bars by force produced

Heat

1894

Newman & Guardia Universal camera Model Special B for plates 3 1/4" x 4 1/4". Uses the Zeiss Protar lens F.6.3 125mm f.1. With rising front and cross movement and bellows extensions. With changing box, 3 1/4 x 3 1/4". Made of mahogany at the back of the camera. With Anastigmat F.8 125mm. f.1. 1894.

Newman & Guardia Universal camera Model Special B

Photographic Technology

1894

Framed document, presented to Sir George Buchanan by the Royal Society, England, 1894. ie, a print: photomechanical engraving; image (sight) 9.5x20.5cm in wood frame, 15.7x27.3x2cm. Reproducing obverse and reverse of medal, 54mm diameter. Text reads: "In grateful recognition of the honour conferred upon GEORGE BUCHANAN, by the founding of a medal, bearing his effigies, to be awarded by the Royal Society for services to Public Health. May, 1894." Portrait, H profile to L; reverse, three winged muses

George Buchanan Medal

Wellcome Medals

1894

Specimen jar of saussurea lappa root, ladwar, from India, 1901-1930

Specimen jar of saussurea lappa root, ladwar, from

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1901-193

Portrait medal of W.T. Gairdner, Professor of Medicine at Glasgow University, bronze, 1984

Portrait medal of W.T. Gairdner, Professor of Medi

Wellcome Medals

1894

Plan, sections and elevations for bridge at 75 miles 34 chains of Manchester Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway Extension to London, scale 1/8" to 1 foot, linen, coloured.

Plan of Manchester, Sheffield & Lincolnshire Railway

Railway Maps & Plans

1894

Winter plate electrical machine, 36 inch, with a conductor on a separate stand

Winter plate electrical machine, 36 inch, with a c

Electricity and Magnetism

1894

Human skin, tattooed with wreathed inscription and flower, probably French, dated 1894

Human skin, tattooed with wreathed inscription and

Anatomy & Pathology

1894

Prize medal, silver 47mm, issued by the Catholic University School of Medicine, Ireland, awarded to P.O'G. Lalor, for medical jurisprudence, 1894

Prize medal, silver 47mm, issued by the Catholic U

Wellcome Medals

1894

Circular, silver-plated bronze medal commemorates The Danish novelist Vilhelm Bergsoe and his book "Piazza del Del popolo", designed by S.Lindahl, Danish(?) 1894

Circular, silver-plated bronze medal commemorates

Wellcome Medals

1894

White metal medal commemorating 500th anniversary of exploits of Don Henrique by Molarinho, Spanish or Portuguese, 1894

White metal medal commemorating 500th anniversary

Wellcome Medals

1894

Bronze medal to commemorate the 11th International Medical Congress, Rome, 1894, by A.O. Ing. Johnson, Italy, 1894

Bronze medal to commemorate the 11th International

Wellcome Medals

1894

Medal, 11th International Medical Congress, showing Aesculapius, Rome, 1894, by A.G. Johnson Inc.

Medal, 11th International Medical Congress, showin

Wellcome Medals

1894

Elegant apparatus said to be an air purifier, presented to Pope Leo 13th, cased, French, 1894, Gisors, Paris, France

Elegant apparatus said to be an air purifier, pres

Surgery

1894

Mounted black & white print of Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway F19 0-6-0 goods locomotive no. 1241 in ex-works condition, taken at Horwich Works. The locomotive was built in July 1894.

Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway F19 0-6-0 goods locomotive (supplied title)

Photographic Collections (Railway)

c. 1894

Ceremonial spade, silver with wooden handle, used for cutting the first sod of the Exeter, Teign Valley & Chagford Railway, 1894.

exeter teign valley & chagford railway ceremonial spade

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1894

83mm diameter brass sprocket wheel, 56 teeth - 16 frames on shaft with worm gear.

Sprocket wheel from Edison Kinetoscope

Cinematography

c. 1894

Table fork, silver plated, Great Western Railway, made by Elkington & Co, Birmingham, 1894; plain, with GWR interlocked monogram on handle. Overall: 22 mm x 189 mm x 23 mm, 0.05 kg.

Silver plated table fork, Great Western Railway

Passenger Comforts

1894

Solid body stereocamera for 45x105mm plates. Two fixed apertures RR type lensess. Guillotine shutter, slow, fast and time settings. Reflecting finder and small tubular finder with graticule line. Push-pull plate changer. Blued brass. No 4623.

Richard Verascope camera, early model

Photographic Technology

c. 1894

Page eight from photographic album of Kodak circular snapshots, polo match taken by an unknown photographer 1894.

Kodak Circular Snapshots

Photographs

1894

Optimus camera made by Perken, Son and Co. Folding bellows box camera for 3 1/2 x 4 1/2 plates. Euryscope rapid detective lens f8-32, F:4 1/2". Thornton-Pickard TI shutter 15-90/sec. Rack and pinion focussing. Swing back. With three wooden double darkslides. (M 4165)

Optimus Camera Deluxe

Photographic Technology

1894

One of 16 spherical nickel plated, brass Troy weights, 1 dr. (Avoirdupois), by L. Oertling verified by the Standards Department of the Board of Trade

Spherical nickel plated brass Troy weight

Weighing & Measuring

1894

One of 16 spherical nickel plated, brass Troy weights, 2lbs Tr. by L. Oertling verified by the Standards Department of the Board of Trade

Spherical nickel plated brass Troy weight

Weighing & Measuring

1894

Set of 16 spherical nickel plated, brass Troy weights, 56 lbs to 1/2 dram, (avoirdupois) by L. Oertling verified by the Standards Department of the Board of Trade

Set of 16 spherical nickel plated, brass Troy weig

Weighing & Measuring

1894

Wollaston's cryophorus, by J. J. Griffin & Sons, London, England, 1894.

Wollaston's Cryophorus, 1894

Heat

1894

Specimen bottle of strophanthus seeds, South Africa, dated 1894

Specimen bottle of strophanthus seeds, South Afric

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1894

Magnetarium by Wilde, 1894

Terrestrial Magnetism

1894

Relief plaster cast of plaque, Photo Club de Paris, 1984, framed and glazed

Relief Plaster Cast of Plaque, Photo Club de Paris

Printed Materials & Ephemera

1894

Harrison and Dodd's lever and crank gear, with sun and planet elliptical wheels, for cycles, 1894. Patented by J. Harrison and J. Dodd in 1894. Purchased from The Elliptical Cycle Co., Ltd., Peterborough. Maker not indicated although possibly Elliptical.

Harrison and Dodd's lever and crank gear for cycles

Road Transport

1894

Two pieces of skull showing cauterisation scars, probably neolithic with photograph of similar, French, 2000BC(?)-1000BC(?)

Two pieces of skull showing cauterisation scars

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

2000-1000 BCE

Pocket hypodermic syringe, glass and nickel plated brass, reputedly by Wood, York, 1894

Pocket hypodermic syringe, glass and nickel plated

Therapeutics

1894

Bronze medal to commemorate Utrecht University, by Begeer, Netherlands, 1894

Bronze medal to commemorate Utrecht University, by

Wellcome Medals

1894

Copper medal cased to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Hamburg and its Burgermeister in 1894, Dr.J. Versmann, Germany, 1894

Copper medal cased to commemorate the 500th annive

Wellcome Medals

1894

Medal, bronze, to commemorate the International Exhibition of Medicine and Hygiene held in Rome 1894, by Giovanni Giani, Rome, Italy, 1894.

Medal, bronze, to commemorate the International Ex

Wellcome Medals

1894

Medal, bronze, to commemorate the 11th Medical Congress in Rome, 1894, made by Johnson, Milan, Italy, 1894.

Medal, bronze, to commemorate the 11th Medical Con

Wellcome Medals

1894

Medal, bronze, to commemorate the 11th International Medical Congress held in Rome, 1894, made by Johnson, Milan, Italy, 1894.

Medal, bronze, to commemorate the 11th Internation

Wellcome Medals

1894

Bronze medal, to commemorate Dr. Wilhelm Berckh and the 250th anniversary of the Pernesische-Blumenorden Medical Xchool (?), of which he was president. Made by Ludwig Christoph Lauer, Nuremberg, Germany, 1894.

Medal for Dr. Wilhelm Berckh and 250th anniversary of Pernesische-Blumenorden Medical School

Wellcome Medals

1894

Watt balance, No.363, by James White, Glasgow, in glazed metal case with box of weights and fittings

Watt balance, No.363, by James White, Glasgow, in

Electricity and Magnetism

1894

Pendant, bronze medal, with design, a reproduction of Antonius Pius (130-143 A.D.) medal, by Angelo Cappucio and Stephano Johnson, Milan, commemorating 11th International Medical Congress in Rome, Italian, 1894

Pendant, bronze medal, with design, a reproduction

Wellcome Medals

1894

Mummy, infant female, said to be Egyptian, 3000-1000 BCE (see note).

Mummified remains, ancient Egyptian or Peruvian

Classical & Medieval Medicine

3000-1000 BCE