Image
Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Model: a set of Gray's high-pressure tubular marine steam boilers

1872

Votive plaque with right ear in relief

400 BCE-100 CE; 1900-1936

Inscribed votive plaque with pair of arms in relief

100 BCE-100 CE; 1900-1936

Inscribed votive plaque with breast in relief

100 BCE-100 CE; 1900-1936

Monocular and binocular microscope

1869

Pair of Tourmalines, mounted in frame

1872

Whole rigged model of the clipper ship 'Stonehouse'

1866 (original) 1871 (model); 1906 (rigging modified)

Earthenware dish

2000-1350

Model set of lenses, by Ladd, London, c.1872

1872

Huyghens eyepiece by Ladd, London, c.1872

1872

Oiliometer, 1870

1870

Strigil hanger, bronze, Roman, from Luxor

20-400

Instructions for Patent of Daniel Spill of Homerton

1873

Photograph, carte-de-visite, albumen

1873-1874

Drawing, design for a mirror back / unsigned

1870-1875

Drawing, design for a mirror back / unsigned

1870-1875

Lithograph of Daniel Spills Ivorideworks by Daniel Greenaway, 1875

1875

copy of a gold cup.

3000-2000 BCE

Broken fragment of terracotta possibly lamp

30-300

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

2050-1750 BCE

Flint knife blade

10,000-2,000 BCE

Cast of statue of James Young Simpson

1874

Copy of a bloodletting measuring device, England, 1977

1977; 1204-1206

Three flint knives and part of a trepanned skull, 10000-5000 BC.

10000-500 BCE

Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.

2500 BCE

Length of red silk ribbon worn as a belt to promote general good health

1880-120

Lancet case, empty

1869

Clark standard element (cell) no. 142

1872

Model (Scale 1:8) of Fison's adjustable double furrow plough

1872

Mummified bird, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

2000-100 BCE

Mummy of a crocodile, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

2000-1001 BCE

Skull elevator for cranial surgery by Stodart of London

1878-1839

Piece of telegraph cable, c. 1869

circa 1869

Cylinder watch in case

1801-1825

Clear glass "Smoke Bell"

1870

Dental elevator

1870-1840

Sealed lid for ballot box

1870

Verge repeating watch

1713-1750

Lever watch in pair case with crank roller

1800-1830

Two prisms

1872

Lever watch in case

1800-1830

Cylinder watch in pair case

1692-1730

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

The Scientific Use of the Imagination

1872

'The Two Headed Nightingale' portrait photograph of Chrissie and Millie McCoy

1872

Diapositives of photographs of sunspots taken by Elizabeth Beckley with the Kew Photoheliograph

1870

Lignite from the Dranista Coalfield, Katerini, Greece

before 1874

Coal-like lignite from Panama, Central America

before 1871

Lignite from Sasso Forte

before 1874

Petroleum oil cannel coal, Bathgate, Wallerawang, New South Wales, Australia

before 1873