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Category
Collection
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Place
Material
Date

Oval badge

1891

Sectioned conjectural model of 'Rocket' steam locomotive

1909

Shell fragment used as an amulet, Germany, 1910-1914

1910-1914

Mauveine acetate dye in microcrystalline form in a cork-stoppered glass bottle

1906

Pill coating machine, France, 1915-1925

1915-1925

Hypodermic syringe with glass phials of drugs

1885-1910

Tooth shade guide, England, 1890-1910

1890-1910

Bragg X-ray spectrometer, England, 1910-1926

1910-1926

Model of Jenning's patent water closet

1895-1905

Protective Face Mask, United Kingdom, 1917-1918

1917-1918

Cesare Urtis & Co - Forniture Electriche

1900

Short Magazine Mark III Lee Enfield .303 Rifle (deactivated)

circa 1917

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Openshaw-type artifcial hand, Birmingham, England, 1916-1918

1916-1918

Yarn Balance

circa 1900

Perth Station, Coming South

1895

Kodak No 1 Camera

circa 1891

A Manufacturing Town' by L. S. Lowry, 1922. Oil on panel, signed and dated, bottom left. An industrial cityscape in the spirit of a northern town such as the artist's native Salford. The artist combines elements of factory buildings, mine heads, smoking chimneys, busy street life and civic pride.

A Manufacturing Town' by L. S. Lowry

1922

Rorschach Inkblot Test, Bern Switzerland, 1942

1921

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

Barber-Colman knotter

circa 1925

Queen Victoria's pony bath chair

1893

Bersey Electric Taxi Cab

1897

Karl Ferdinand Braun's 'Braun tube', 1897

1897

Parsons' steam turbine generator, 1884

1884

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Medal commemorating Eduard Albert

1891

Victory Medal, 1914-1919

1919

North Eastern Railway steam breakdown crane

1907

Manufactured insulin, 'Iletin', United States, 1923

1923

Steel Rule

1900

Gas mask for horses, Germany, 1914-1918

1914-1918

Foucault Pendulum for demonstrating the Earth's rotation, with stand, divided arc, lapse clock, storage box

1883

'City of Truro' Steam locomotive

1903

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Royal 10 typewriter

1920

Oxygen cylinder used by climbers on 1953 Mount Everest expedition

1952-3

Tower's handcuffs

1882-1890

Sunset and afterglow, Krakatoa, 9 November 1883.

1883

Shand Mason horse-drawn steam fire engine

1889-1894

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Edison 'Concert' phonograph

1910-1912

The Terminus (Penzance Station)

1925

Early x plates of Lord Kelvin and Lord Salisbury's hand

circa 1896

Early x-ray glass plates

1890-1900

Weiss chemical pathology set, with manual, 1910

1910

Six reproductions of drawings of atomic formulae by John Dalton

1925

44 designs for carriages

1904-1906

Collection of 15 watercolour illustrations of pox lesions in human skin

1901-1902

Spectrum Films ltd booklet

1924