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Material
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Ready reckoner for ship's cargoes

1807

Demainbray's cometarium

1750-1760

Architect's drawing instruments

Napier's Bones

1690

Model of Vauloue's piledriver

1737-1752

Sundial making tool

1690-1710

Hughes microphone detector, 1865-1875

1865-1875

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

1760-1775

Slide rule by Robert Bissaker

1654

Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857

1853-1857

Reproduction in boxwood, "Dr Black 1808 Scr."

1807

Boxwood copy of Trafalgar medal

1805-1819

Wollaston-type optometer

1825-1835

Rectangular reclining sundial

1592

Slide rule, Thomson's patent

Botanical model

1875-1900

Botanical model

1875-1900

Box of sixty boxwood calculating rods

1690-1710

Nocturnal boxwood and brass

1702

Boxwood fathom marker

1876

Boxwood fathom marker

1876

Drawing scale, boxwood

1790-1819

Engineer's slide rule, boxwood

1790-1819

Surveyor's plane table outfit, 1881-1890

1881-1890

Gilt customs and excise standard no 1 (Sikes) hydrometer by J J Hicks

1870-1930

Lefebvre type clitograph, French, 1862

1862

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

Reproduction in boxwood, featuring male bust

1807

Cavalry sketching board, 1910

1910

Improved saccharometer

1825-1835

Improved hydrometer with four weights

1815-1825

Power loom shuttle, 1858-1862

1858-1862

Weaving power loom shuttle

1858-1862

Power loom shuttle, 1858-1862

1858-1862

Small piece of boxwood

1790-1819

Improved Callendar and Griffiths Resistance Bridge, 1850-1900

1850-1900

Distance Meter for Plane Table, 1765-1775

1765-1775

Metal factors ruler incorporating sliding caliper marked Thomas Bradburn and Sons

eights and mercury thermometer from the Castlereagh Collection for Constantinople (Turkey), and original correspondence for Constantinople and Iona

1800-1818

Cook Slide Rule

1825-1834

Ronchetti linear slide rule

circa 1847

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

1862

Magic lantern slide: Man eating rat

1850-1910

Half-block model

1810-1830

Caliper stringing gauge

Original Callendar and Griffiths Resistance Bridge, 1850-1900

1850-1900

New Improved' universal compound microscope with fitted mahogany case

1785-1795

Terrestrial hand telescope

1675-1685

Maximum Mercury and Minimum Alcohol Thermometer by J.J. Griffin & Sons, 1880

1880

Refracting terrestrial telescope

1700-1705