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Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

Road Transport

1905

10 hp two-cylinder Rolls-Royce motor car, 1905. Reg. No. AX148; Chassis No. 20162; 10 hp

Original vacuum cleaner, from to Royal Naval College

Domestic Appliances

1905

Original vacuum cleaner, supplied to Royal Naval College, Osborne, c.1905

Model Great Western Railway locomotive, "Gooch"

Railway Models

1905

Model steam locomotive, 1/16 scale, Great Western Railway `Armstrong' class 4-4-0 No 8 'Gooch', 1905, Churchward rebuild of the Dean 'No.7' class of 1894.

Experimental form 1 (Licence to use Wireless Telegraph), 1905

Radio Communication

1905

Experimental form 1 (Licence to use Wireless Telegraph for Experimental purposes) dated 14 November 1905 and made out to Ernest Dundas Gledall Esq BSc, issued by the General Post Office on behalf of the Postmaster General, British, 1905

Public telephone sign

Telecommunications

c.1905

National Telephone Company enamel sign for a public telephone, made in around 1905.

Holmes-type stereoscope

Photographic Technology

c. 1905

Holmes-type stereo viewer (patents 1902, 1903, 1904). 'The mercury stereoscope'. Aluminium lens mount and chased aluminium hood, velvet edged. In heavy carton with 63 dollotype colour printed stereo cards of chocolate box designs, priced. With broken leather strap and carrying handle. Underwood and Underwood.

telephone cable marker

Telecommunications

c1905

Edwardian cast-iron underground telephone cable marker.

Telegraph block instrument, South Eastern Railway

Signalling & Telecommunications

c. 1905

Telegraph block instrument; SER. Walker's rectangular wood-cased Lock and Block with double semaphore-arm block-indicators on vertical wooden post with top-mounted block-dome/striker. The instrument has a separate wooden commutator-box with bell-key/plunger, disc-indicator and trigger.

No. 3A Folding Pocket Kodak camera

Aeronautics

1905; c.1905

No. 3A Folding Pocket Kodak camera, made by the Canadian Kodak Co. Ltd, Toronto, 1905 and used by Jack Alcock.

Steam locomotive, number 1217, Great Eastern Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1905

Steam locomotive, Great Eastern Railway, J17 class 0-6-0 No 1217, designed by James Holden, built at Stratford in 1905, withdrawn 1962.

Ensign Optiscope Number 6 projector

Cinematography

c. 1905

Ensign Optiscope No 6 lantern slide projector. For 3 1/4 x 3 1/4 inch slides. Aldis Uno projection lens F:10 inch; all metal; bellows lens extensions, with two wooden slide carriers (stamped RRD). This is a projector for 3 1/4 inch square slides. It has an Aldis Uno 10" projection lens mounted in a panel on two rods and with bellows that can be extended. The lamphouse has an ES bulb holder, secured by a wing screw underneath its base. The projector comes with two wooden slide carriers. The projector can be pivited on the base and secured by means of the chrome lever. Power is controlled with an on/off switch on the base.

GBN toy magic lantern

Cinematography

1905

GBN toy magic lantern. Made in Germany. Toy lantern in olive green enamelled tinplate. Single condensor lens, single objective lens. Oil lamp with glass chimney. In original cardboard, with instruction sheet. Box of original GBN slides, 12; 17x44cm, four circular pictures to each slide. Box of 12 GBN slides; 17x44cm, series 6, 4 circular pictures to each slide. Box of 12 GBN slides 17x44cm Series 4 slides, four panoramic, eight with four pictures each.

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

Babylonian clay liver used for divination, c.2050-1750 BC, copy, 1981

Gas radiator

Domestic Appliances

c.1905

Gas radiator made by Cannon Iron Foundries, Bilston, c.1905.

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE

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

Wheatstone bridge with stand

Electricity and Magnetism

1905

Wheatstone bridge with stand

Time results recorded on paper

Telecommunications

1905

Time results recorded on paper, rolled, from the time recorder, by the British Time Recorder Co. Ltd, London, England, 1905

Wigzell's sea sounding instrument, 1905

Oceanography

1905

Wigzell's sea sounding instrument, 1905

Canvas roll for surgical instruments

Surgery

1905

Canvas roll for surgical instruments from a surgical pannier, 1905

Field surgical pannier set in case

Surgery

1905

Field surgical pannier set, complete, British, 1905 pattern101919

locomotive worksplates

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1905

Locomotive Worksplate, "Societe Alsacienne de constructions mecaniques No. 5602, Belfort 1905", black, brass, oval, Great Western Railway 4-4-2 De Glehn Compound No. 104 "Alliance", superheated in 1915, withdrawn September 1928. [Also allocated Swindon Works No. 2127]

Roller-Blind Shutter

Photographic Technology

1905

Roller-blind "Time" shutter made by Thornton-Pickard Limited.

‘Griffith’ foot-operated vacuum cleaner

Domestic Appliances

c. 1905

‘Griffith’ foot-operated vacuum cleaner (Patent No. 21,304), designed by Walter Griffith, unsigned, Europe, 1905

Stoneware 'Lion' ceramic water

Water Supply & Sanitation

c.1905

Stoneware 'Lion' ceramic water closet pedestal made by B. and M. Co. Ltd, c. 1905.

Pale blue spool of vicose. Labelled "CHEESE (VIS

Plastics and Modern Materials

1905

Pale blue spool of vicose. Labelled "CHEESE (VISCOSE SILK)"

F.N. 3 h.p. 4-cylinder motor cycle, 1905

Road Transport

1905

F.N. 3 h.p. 4-cylinder motor cycle, 1905

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

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Mummy of peregrine falcon, Egyptian, 2000-1001 BC

Matrix punch mill tool, grinding machine

Printing & Writing

1905

Matrix punch mill tool, grinding machine, Plant No.210, made by Lanston Monotype Corporation, Salford, Redhill, Surrey, England, 1905. Part of the equipment used in the production system for Monotype matrices.

Bronze medal, rectangular with arched top, centena

Wellcome Medals

1905

Bronze medal, rectangular with arched top, centenary of medico-surgical society, France, 1905

Brown spool of viscose. In box labelled "KEW" an

Plastics and Modern Materials

1905

Brown spool of viscose. In box labelled "KEW" and "Cold Winding 100 Den. 12(?) Skein" (in pencil).

Brown/grey striped observation of Jupiter, 16 November 1905

Art

1905

Brown/grey brown striped observation of Jupiter made by John Willis on 16 November 1905 at 8pm. One of 275 pencil, ink and colour wash observations of the Sun and Jupiter made by Willis in Folkestone between 1879 and 1906.

Destroyers

Leslie Ward

1905

Vanity Fair chromolithograph portrait: Sir John Isaac Thornycroft.

Air terminal with grooved lead joint attachment fo

Geophysics

1905

Air terminal with grooved lead joint attachment for horizontal lightning conductor, 1905

Poster for a Bioscope show

Cinematography

1905-09-23

A poster advertising a show by the International Bioscope Company at the Public Hall in Epsom, printed by Willsons New Walk Colour Printing Works in 1905. The poster advertises an 'Important Visit of the International Bioscope Company Presenting a Magnificent Series of the Very Latest Animated Photographs'. Film titles include 'The Unlucky Birthday Umbrella', 'The Bombardment of Port Arthur', 'Great Irish Eviction Scene' and 'Desperate Poaching Affray'.

Medal given as a prize for pathology at the Medical College for Women, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1905

Wellcome Medals

1905

Medal, silvered, Medical College for Women, Edinburgh, to S. Jean Meiklejohn, for Pathology, 1905, made by Kirkwood and Son, Edinburgh

Handle for trephine drill

Surgery

1905

Handle for use with trephine, Mayer and Meltzer, from field surgical pannier set, complete, British, 1905 pattern101919

Metal box from field surgical pannier set

Surgery

1905

Metal box from field surgical pannier set, British, 1905 pattern101919

Backstreet in Calais or Dunkirk

Photographs

c. 1905

A photograph entitled 'Back Street in Calais or Dunkirk', taken by Edgar Tarry Adams, c. 1905. The photograph shows washing hung between buildings on a street in northern France.

Frank Richard and George Philip Wells

Photographs

c 1905

Copy print mounted on writing paper. Image shows Frank Richard 'F.R.' Wells (1903–1982) and George Philip 'G.P.' Wells (1901–1985) -- sons of author H.G. Wells (1866-1946). The children are playing in the garden at Spade House, the family home Wells constructed in Sandgate, near Folkestone, Kent.

Stone slab with seven holes for cosmetic ointments, Egypt, 1991-1786 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1991-1786 BCE

Aragonite slab with 7 holes for cosmetic ointments, each labelled in hieroglyphics, Egyptian, 1991BC-1786BC

Lever-type surgical instrument

Surgery

1905

Metal lever associated with a surgical instrument from a surgical pannier, 1905 pattern

Mummy of a crocodile, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Mummified crocodile, no provenance, Egyptian, 2000-1001 BCE.

Pendulum, from time recorder

Telecommunications

1905

Pendulum from the time recorder, by the British Time Recorder Co. Ltd, London, England, 1940-1970

Case for surgical instruments

Surgery

1905

Mahogany velvet lined case for surgical instrument set from surgical pannier, 1905 pattern

Thermometer from a field surgical pannier set

Surgery

1905

'60 seconds' thermometer in a metal case made by Anderson and Buchanan, Glasgow from a field surgical pannier set, complete, British, 1905 pattern101919

Ivory skein of viscose labelled "100 Denier 21 fil

Plastics and Modern Materials

17th July 1905

Ivory skein of viscose labelled "100 Denier 21 filaments SILK AFTER DESULPHERISING". In box marked "Kew Skeins (unreadable) Caps & OLD".

hand printing block

Textile Industry

c1905

Hand printing block, c.1905

No 2 Brownie camera made by Ea

Photographic Technology

c.1905

No 2 Brownie camera made by Eastman Kodak, Rochester, USA in around 1905.

Yellow spool of viscose. In box labelled "KEW" a

Plastics and Modern Materials

1905

Yellow spool of viscose. In box labelled "KEW" and "Cold Winding 100 Den. 12(?) Skein" (in pencil).