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windsor mantle clock

Railway Timepieces

1845-1855

Radial flow turbine engines originally fitted to the 'Turbinia'

Marine Engines

1894

Prototype ring propeller

Marine Engines

2003

Decorated inro with netsuke

Asian Medicine

1850-1918

The original engine of Henry Bell's paddle steamer, ‘Comet’, by John Robertson and David Napier, Glasgow, Scotland, 1812

The original engine of Henry Bell's paddle steamer, ‘Comet’

Marine Engines

1812

Bronze statue of Isis nursing Horus, Egypt, 600-30 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

600-30 BCE

Replica of Scoresby's 'Marine Diver', Water Sampler, 1811

Oceanography

1811 (original)

Bronze statue of Osiris, Egypt, 1000-400 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1000-400 BCE

Strigil set (copy), Roman design from 199 BCE-500 CE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

199 BCE-500 CE

Specimen showing Brown-Curtis turbine blades as fitted to H.P. casings

Marine Engines

1933

Ivory tablet compass sundial

Time Measurement

1574

Tablet diptych (?) sundial for Italian hours

Time Measurement

1530-1640

Ancient Egyptian bronze mirror, Egypt, 800-100 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

800-100 BCE

Bronze statue of Neith, Egypt, 200 BCE-400 CE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

20 BCE-400 CE

Chinese celestial globe, 1830

Astronomy

1830

Bronze bell shaped mortar, Europe, 1671-1730

Pharmacy-ware

1671-1730

Paul's Cinematograph Camera No 2

Cinematography

1896

First prototype of the "Clock of the Long Now", made by the Long Now Foundation, 1999.

First prototype of the "Clock of the Long Now", 1999.

Time Measurement

1999

Working model, of a pair of single horizontal cylinder engines, with steam jacketed cylinders as fitted on HMS 'Monarch' (1868)

Marine Engines

1868

Small pocket Varley type graphic telescope, engrav

Optics

1810-1820

Bronze knife

Classical & Medieval Medicine

Bronze knife used in mummification, Egypt, 600-200 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

600-200 BCE

Bronze knife, Egypt, 600-200 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

600-200 BCE

Bronze statue of Bes, Egypt, 1000-200 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1000-200 BCE

Bronze statue of Imhotep, Egypt, 600-30 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

600-30 BCE

Bronze male anatomical figure on a marble stand, 1750-1800.

Anatomy & Pathology

1750-1800

Tablet sun-dial with string gnomon

Time Measurement

1610

London, Midland & Scottish Railway Company Medal

Railways

1926

Self-Pitching Carbon Fibre Cyclic Pitch Propeller, prototype, with wooden transport box and steel transport box trolley

Marine Engines

2005-2006; 2014

Original leather case for silver sundial

Time Measurement

1568-1590

Libation cup of the "chueh" type, from a tomb

Asian Medicine

1500 -500 BCE

Bronze hair curling tongs and trimmer, Egypt, 1575-1194 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1575-1194 BCE

Japanese Lantern Clock, Unsigned, 1801-1900

Time Measurement

1801-1900

Model of a pair of side-lever engines from the H.M.S. 'Dee', (1832)

Marine Engines

1832-1851

Tablet sundial of ivory

Time Measurement

1601-1700

Set of four bronze toilet implements, Egypt, 1500-1001 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1500-1001 BCE

Bronze kohl stick, Egypt, 1575-1194BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1575-1194 BCE

Medallion Awarded to Kendall & Gent Limited

Local History

1879

Plaque, New Photographer Award, 1928. Cast bronze relief on wooden mount. Cast with a seated man putting a laurel crown on a seated angel. 'Awarded to S A Smith New Photographer 6168 - LNER April 1928'

New Photographer Award, 1928

Printed Materials & Ephemera

1928

Awarded N Blake. Two alegorical female figures, one with camera etc, moulded in bronze on oak plaque with hinged stand. Engraved at bottom 'IWPS, 1903, N Blake'.

I W PS bronze plaque

Printed Materials & Ephemera

1903

Votive female figure

Classical & Medieval Medicine

100 BCE - 400 CE

Heliostatic mounting, hinge bracket with square plate with rotating aperture

Optics

1795-1805

Medallion, London & North Eastern Railway, "For Courage and Resource", bronze, in glazed oak frame, 1940-1948.

Framed bronze medallion, London & North Eastern Railway - 'For Courage and Resource'

Coins and Medals

1940-1948

Varley's graphic telescope

Optics

1810-1820

Gregorian reflecting telescope, brass tube covered

Optics

1785-1795

Messenger (Slider) for Triggering Reversing Thermometer, 1970-1977

Oceanography

1970-1977

Exhibition Plaque, Worthing Camera Club Premier Award. Awarded Edmund F H Crouch for 'A November Morning', F J Mortimer, Judge. Deeply moulded figure, male and female with photo plate; Art Noveau decoration. Bronze, oak stand.

Exhibition Plaque, Worthing Camera Club Premier Award

Printed Materials & Ephemera

1909

Iron surgical knife with bronze handle

Classical & Medieval Medicine

Phallic figurine of boy holding pitcher

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1-400 CE

Diptych dials

Time Measurement

1648