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Creamware plate, scalloped outer edge and decorate

Medical Ceramic-ware

1771-1900

Sheraton medicine chest, Europe, 1720-1800

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1720-1800

Games sticks, 1981, coal minin

Coal Mining

Chamber pot, Netherlands, 1651-1780

Public Health & Hygiene

1651-1780

Figurine of Florence Nightingale and a wounded officer, England, 1850-1870

Medical Ceramic-ware

1850-1870

Ceramic teaching doll showing treatment for polio, England, 1930-1950

Orthopaedics

1930-1950

Ceramic teaching doll to show prospective treatments, England, 1930-1950

Orthopaedics

1930-1950

Ceramic pendant, Russia, 1914-1918

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1914-1918

Oil lamp by Tyer and Co. Ltd., London, with cerami

Meteorology

1920-1940

Commemorative plate bearing de

Electricity Supply

Salvarsan kit, containing Salvarsan in glass phial, hypochloric acid, crucible, litmus paper, and two instruction leaflet pages

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1909-1912

Robert Best Ede's chemistry set, England, 1840-1900

Laboratory Medicine

1840-1900

'Smoke Trapper' ashtray, Japan, 1982

Smoking

1982

Albarello vase for theriac, Italy, 1641

Medical Ceramic-ware

1641

Dispensing pot for Morton's Balsamic Pills, Italy, 1771-1830

Medical Ceramic-ware

1771-1830

Dispensing pot for laudanum, Italy, 1771-1830

Medical Ceramic-ware

1771-1830

Stoneware gutter trap, England, 1850-1865

Public Health & Hygiene

1850-1865

primary electric cell

Electricity and Magnetism

Van de Graaff accelerator, 1920-1979

Nuclear Energy

1920-1979

Bar-top font for dispensing lager, with cold-water jet for cooling glasses prior to dispensing, with three outlets, badged as Stella Artois, Leffe and Hoegaarden, including drip tray and drain, made by Antoine, 1990-1998.

Bar-top font for dispensing lager, with cold-water

Nutrition & Food Technology

1990-1998

Beyer-Garratt Presentation Plaque

Railways

Commemorative mug celebrating the solar eclipse, 1999

Astronomy

1999

Neutron Detector, sectioned, for nuclear reactor c

Nuclear Energy

1992

Mortar and Pestle

Experimental Chemistry

Portrait bust of Brissand

Wellcome (general)

1910

Wedgwood bucchero bust of Hermes, probably C19

Hermes

Laboratory Medicine

1770-1890

Ceramic kitchen knife, Japanese, 2003

Materials Science Gallery

2003

Ceramic kitchen knife, Japanese, 2003

Materials Science Gallery

2003

Distillation column equipment mounted on perspex

Industrial Chemistry

Triple-expansion Engine driving two dynamos, c. 1930

Motive Power

1930 (original); 1984 (model)

Two Wedgwood blue jasper medallions

Ceramics

1860

Pathé Baby ciné projector for 9.5mm film, 1926 with embossed mat, three spools of film and one box of lamps.

Pathé Baby ciné projector for 9.5mm film

Cinematography

1926

Glass dish with nightlight. Domed cermaic translucent cover with moulded and coloured scenes. Children with 'pretend camera' shown with children catching fish and children in a snow scene.

Lithophane-type Nightlight

Printed Materials & Ephemera

Evershed's portable ohmmeter no.20818

Electricity Supply

2.5 x 2.5cm ceramic plate with photoelectric coating. Held by two copper strips with brass terminals mounted on an ebonite base.

photoelectric cells

Photographic Technology

Crompton & Co automatic battery cut-out no.28101 (on base casting) and no. 3078 (on maker's plate) c.1906, 70v. 30amps.

Crompton & Co automatic battery cut-out no.28101 (

Electricity Supply

Two "Tenby Pilot" double wall switches made of phenol formaldehyde, made in England, 1929-1940

Two double electrical wall switches

Plastics and Modern Materials

1920-1040

Medicine chest, mahogany, by W. Batka, Prague, containing 44 glass bottles (43 labelled), 8 labelled ceramic ointment jars, 11 test tubes, mortar, pestle and crucible stand, Czechoslovakian, 1850-1918

Medicine chest, mahogany, by W. Batka, Prague, con

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1850-1918

Maiolica Italian drug jar, water bottle, globular shape, decorated in blue and white flowers and foliage, label panel with 3 scorpions, and in gothic script labelled 'a.apii' for wild celery water, Faenza, Italy, c. 1550

Maiolica drug jar for wild celery water

Medical Ceramic-ware

1545-1555

Lighting switchboard installed in a church in Gloucester in 1899, and used for forty years

Electric Lighting Switchboard, Gloucester, 1899

Electricity Supply

1899

Pearlware food warmer, pedestal and liner only, probably English, first half of 19th century

Food warmer

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

1801-1850

Earthenware tile, tin glazed and decorated in blue, white and yellow with bee emblem of Pope Urban VIII, (b.1568; pope 1623-1644), said to be from his bathroom, possibly Italian.

Tin-glazed Polychrome Earthenware Tile, 1568-1744

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1568-1644

Two ordinary mercury-in-glass absolute thermometers with white ceramic frames, made by Negretti & Zambra and with serial numbers 19052 and 19054. Marked KO [Kew Observatory]. Scale 245 to 325 degrees

Ordinary mercury absolute thermometers

Meteorology

Ordinary mercury-in-glass Fahrenheit thermometer, to Met.Office pattern Mark I, by Short & Mason Ltd., London, serial no.92554/43, with white ceramic holder and scale, NPL43, dated 1943. Scale -15 to 113 degrees

Fahrenheit thermometer

Meteorology

1943

Lodge Sparking Plug for motor vehicles. Type model C. In red/gold/black metal box marked `Lodge'. With associated 11 small parts. Available 1911-1919

Lodge Sparking Plug for motor vehicles. Type model

Road Transport

1911-1919

Ceramic device with annular groove for cotton wool and fitting for rubber tube and bulb (missing) by which magnesium powder, placed in central tube, may be blown through flame of burning methylated spirit soaked cotton wool. No.5888. Royal Doulton Ware for Kodak Limited.

Kodak Magnesium Flash Lamp

Photographic Technology

1907

Ceramic device with annular groove for cotton wool and fitting for rubber tube and bulb (missing) by which magnesium powder, placed in central tube, may be blown through flame of burning methylated spirit soaked cotton wool. No.5888. Royal Doulton Ware for Kodak Limited.

Kodak Magnesium Flash Lamp

Photographic Technology

1907

Pathé Baby 9.5mm projector with outer case removed, c. 1926.

Pathé Baby 9.5mm projector

Cinematography

De Dion pattern spark plug in wooden case, 1900-1910

De Dion pattern spark plug in wooden case, 1900-19

Road Transport

1900-1910

Ironclad switchfuse "Invicta" model, by Bill Switchgear, Birmingham, 30 amp, 250V. c. 1950 to c.1970

Ironclad switchfuse "Invicta" model, by Bill Swit

Electricity Supply

1950-1970