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Place
Material
Date

Straw electroscope (without straws)

1850

Gold-leaf electroscope with large brass shade

1850

Single needle instrument, Highton's 1848

1848

Siemens magneto A.B.C. instrument with glass sides

1872

Bottle, clear glass

1862-1863

Graphic eyepiece

1845

Highton's single needle telegraph, 1848.

1848

Replica of Roman steelyard, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914

Calf's Head Weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931

Solid bronze phallic amulet in form of priapus with hind legs and tail of horse

30-200

Plaster replica of black Basalt Cubit Rod 531

1931; 250 BCE

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

Bronze probe(?), twisted stem, Romano-Egyptian

20-500

Tourmaline tongs (c.1860), two tourmalines mounted in cells on a wire holder

1860

Polariscope (c.1850)

1850

Book, A W Hofmann - The Chemical Laboratories in Course of Erection in the Universities of Bonn and Berlin

1866

Plaster replica of IBEX weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931

Rectangular drawing instrument in brass

1865

Recording Pressure Gauge

1873

Olive ended probe, bronze, Romano-Egyptian

20-500

Strigil hanger, bronze, Roman, from Luxor

20-400

Bottle, clear glass

1862-1863

Bottle, clear glass

1862-1863

Bottle, clear glass

1862-1863

Colour print showing the corona around the Sun during a solar eclipse, 1870.

1870

Five German flat square iron weights: 100, 50, 20, 10 & 5-grammes

1859

Figure of Alexander Humboldt

1851

Chairing Canning at Heart's Content

1866

Laying the line

1866

Portrait. Professor J.S. Muspratt. Engraving

1853-1861

Watercolour drawing

1850-1859

Watching manoeuvres from the dunes

1865

Engraving, gilt edged roundel

1855-1864

Engraving, gilt edged roundel

1855-1864

Illustration of aeronauts in balloon basket

1855-1865

Advertisement by GWR for the exhibition of the Galvanic and Electromagnetic Telegraphs

1845

Print, etching of Night scene in European city

1940-1050

Print, tinted lithograph. ' View of the High Bridge, New York, 1861'

1862

Black stone container or palette

2000-1000

Small black slate palette with short handle and base carved in form of flat fish

3500-1000

Aveling blood transfusion set in case with instructions

1872

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

Life-size models in painted plaster of human heart

1870

Wheatstone's automatic telegraph transmitter, 1858

1858

Moose-shaped pipe bowl, Native American, Canada, c. 1850-1870.

1850-1870

Cuttle-fish eyes

1867

Mouthpiece from inhaler by Dr. Nelson in 1865

1865

Pewter enemea syringe

1852

Silver mounted meerschaum tobacco pipe

1850-1859

Carved wooden tobacco pipe

1850-1870