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Moldacot pocket sewing machine, 1887.

Textiles Machinery

1886-1887

Spherical nickel plated brass Troy weight

Weighing & Measuring

1894

The first Wheeler and Wilson sewing machine, 1866.

Textiles Machinery

1866

Oil lamp used in opium smoking

Asian Medicine

Electrogalvanic amulet, Richardson's Magneto-Galva

Therapeutics

1880-1900

Samples of metallic elements

Experimental Chemistry

2019

Pocket aneroid barograph

Meteorology

1919

Ward model A1 arm and platform lock stitch sewing machine

Textiles Machinery

1875-1892

Replica of a Dewar Metal Vacuum Vessel, 1931

Heat

1931

Cylindrical sample, 150mm long and 22mm diameter,

Metallurgy

c.1929

Lithotomy sound with short proximal curved bulbous end

Surgery

1801-1920

Small combined lithotomy scoop and director, nicke

Surgery

1801-1890

Urethral stricture dilator

Surgery

1801-1900

Urethral sound straight olive ended with flat hand

Surgery

1801-1900

Nickel-plated catheter with proximal curve, gauge

Surgery

1851-1930

Scoop for either lithotomy or removal of gall-ston

Surgery

1801-1900

Urethral stricture dilator

Clinical Diagnosis

1801-1910

Urethral sound, with proximal curve, and wooden ha

Surgery

1781-1881

Wooden snuff box, elliptical in section with hinge

Smoking

1840-1900

Electrogalvanic amulet, Richardson's Magneto-Galvanic Battery (or possibly a fake?), disc with cross at centre and 14 small discs arranged in a circle around it. Made of zinc, brass, copper, iron and nickel, with woven string instead of chain. Made by A.M. Richardson & Co., New York, USA, 1880-1900. Engraved on front of cross with two hearts radiating electric bolts, and on reverse side with 'PAT & RD US, GB, FRANCE, ITALY ETC.' Note gap in outer ring around disc. Similar to A602762.

Electrogalvanic amulet

Therapeutics

1880-1900

Silver-plated catheter, with proximal curve and st

Surgery

1831-1880

Spherical nickel plated brass Troy weight

Weighing & Measuring

1894

Spherical nickel plated brass Troy weight

Weighing & Measuring

1894

Twin-pan equal arm balance

Weighing & Measuring

1950-1970

Nickel-silver catheter with tapering proximal curv

Surgery

1851-1920

Mokume gane bowl made of copper and nickel

Materials Science Gallery

1990-1996

Lithotomy or bladder catheter with bulbous ended p

Surgery

1841-1910

Components from household items that have been ele

Materials Science Gallery

1996

Four models of engraved rollers for calico printin

Textiles Machinery

Wheeler and Wilson lock stitch treadle powered button hole s

Textiles Machinery

1862

Celluloid brooch, in form of female hand holding

Plastics and Modern Materials

1870-1900

Gnome 50 HP 7 Cylinder Rotary aero engine, with metal engine to fuselage gasket, designed by Louis Seguin and Laurent Seguin, and made by Societe des Moteurs Gnome, France, 1908-1914. The engine has seven cylinders, machined out of solid nickel-chrome-steel ingots. The cylinders and crank-chamber revolve around the stationary crankshaft. The carburettor, which is stationary, is of the single-jet type and feeds the engine through the hollow crank shaft. The connecting rods all operate on a single crank pin. Henri Farman used this type of engine to win a prize for the greatest distance flown (180 km), setting a World record.

Gnome 50 HP 7 Cylinder Rotary aero engine

Aircraft Propulsion

1908-1914

Electrogalvanic amulet

Therapeutics

1880-1900

Spherical nickel plated brass Troy weight

Weighing & Measuring

1894

Tongue depressor probably Ward Cousin's, 19th cent

Surgery

1801-1900

Cautery, by Blanc of Paris, France, steel, wood an

Surgery

1701-1800

Speculum, mouth, nickel and ivory, by Collin of Pa

Clinical Diagnosis

1860-1870

Twin-needle lock stitch sewing machine, model No D 12 by Wh

Textiles Machinery

1890

Cautery, probably French, steel, nickel silver and

Surgery

1801-1900

Spherical nickel plated brass Troy weight

Weighing & Measuring

1894

Abel's flash-point apparatus for petroleum, with two mercury thermometers by Baird & Tatlock Ltd., London, 1910-12, serial no. 3163.

Abel's Flash Point Apparatus, London, 1910-1912

Experimental Chemistry

1910-1912

Moldacot portable lockstitch sewing machine, complete with accessories and tin plate box, 1886-1887.

Moldacot portable lockstitch sewing machine, complete with a

Textiles Machinery

1886-1887

Gamma 2 rocket engine (2nd stage Black Arrow type), on trolley, by Bristol Siddeley Engines Limited, England, 1963-1971

Gamma Type 2 engine, c. 1968.

Space Technology

1963-1971

Electromagnetic machine containing 2 dry batteries and a small induction coil, made by Galvanophor, probably English, c.1920

Electromagnetic machine containing 2 dry batteries

Therapeutics

1920

Urethral stricture dilator, straight cylindrical with trough drainage channel to tapered end. Ivory handle, circa 1880

Urethral stricture dilator

Clinical Diagnosis

1801-1910

Bourdon's aneroid barometer. Nickel case.

Bourdon's aneroid barometer

Meteorology

1850

Pair of metal rimmed tinted spectacles, with wire mesh protectors, Swiss, 1851-1910

Pair of metal rimmed tinted spectacles, with wire

Ophthalmology

1851-1920

Suture, Depierris, for cleft palate, steel and nickel, from Charriere, Collin and Gentile collection, c. 1860

Suture, Depierris, for cleft palate, steel and nic

Surgery

1850-1870

Canvas and leather medicine pouch, empty except for part of syringe container, made by S. Maw, Son and Thompson, 7-12 Aldersgate Street, London, EC, England, 1870-1901.

Canvas and leather medicine pouch, empty except fo

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1870-1901

One of 16 spherical nickel plated, brass Troy weights, 2oz. Tr., by L. Oertling verified by the Standards Department of the Board of Trade

Spherical nickel plated brass Troy weight

Weighing & Measuring

1894