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Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

Lighting

1879

Demainbray's model corn mill

King George III

1753

Single needle telegraph, 1846

Telecommunications

1846

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Industrial Metrology

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

King George III

1720

Three-ring Enigma cypher machine in oak wood transit case

Radio Communication

1934

Tripod for plane table outfit

Surveying

1801-1830

European celestial globe

Astronomy

1878

Oak funeral bier donated to the parish of Shrivenham by Rear Admiral Sir Charles Dury in memory of his late wife, Frances Ellen Whitehead

Road Transport

1900

Kymograph mounted on a trolley and powered by mains electricity

Laboratory Medicine

1945-1950

Artificial leg, Europe, 1914-1918

Orthopaedics

1914-1918

Embroidered illustration of an astrologer's prediction, England, 1780-1820

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1780-1820

Compound microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1701-1723

Model of a cubic surface

Mathematics

Admiral FitzRoy type Barometer, 1876-1884

Meteorology

1876-1884

Pyrophone

Acoustics

1873-1876

Gas alert rattle, England, 1917

Wellcome (general)

1917

Wooden statue of St Apollonia and two tormentors, Europe, 1850-1928

Dentistry

1850-1928

Statue of St Anthony the Hermit, Netherlands, 1801-1900

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1801-1900

Oak wood statue of St Sebastian

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1520-1530

Wells Cathedral clock

Time Measurement

1392

Plesch type tonoscillograph and oak wood box

Clinical Diagnosis

1931-1940

Wooden statue of St Paul de Leon, France, 1801-1900

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1801-1900

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

Geodetic theodolite, German, 1820-1850

Surveying

1820-1850

Moulding plane, ogee type by Panton; 1882-1908.

Hand and Machine Tools

1882-1908

Roll of Honour, glazed, in oak frame, London & North Eastern Railway, detailing the 22 recipients of the LNER gallantry medal, 1941-1947, including two examples of the medal with ribbon.

Roll of Honour for gallantry medal, London & North Eastern Railway

Coins and Medals

1947

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

Minimum Alcohol Thermometer by Pastorelli & Co., 1875

Heat

1875

Statue of Saint Houaniaule

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1601-1700

Architect's model of Vauxhall Cross, sitting on formica stand on oak base, unsigned, England, c. 1988. Model constructed for Terry Farrell & Partners, British.

Architect's model of Vauxhall Cross, for Terry Farrell & Partners

Building Construction

c. 1988

Box of sixty boxwood calculating rods, four missing

Mathematics

1690-1710

Dovetail saw, with saw back carved in the shape of a bird

Hand and Machine Tools

1760-1800

Model of a cubic surface

Mathematics

Chair, Cheshire Lines Committee, oak, low-backed with seat re-upholstered in red leatherette, CLC interlocked initials carved on back.

Oak chair, Cheshire Lines Committee

Railway Furniture

Chair, Cheshire Lines Committee, oak, low-backed with seat re-upholstered in red leatherette, CLC interlocked initials carved on back.

Oak chair, Cheshire Lines Committee

Railway Furniture

Purpose built wooden stand for four trussed beam models

Motive Power

1855-1876

Maximum Mercury Thermometer by Pastorelli & Co., 1875

Heat

1875

Celestial globe, on later plain oak stand

Astronomy

1816-1820

Telegraph line lightning protector, Russian

Geophysics

Model of a cubic surface

Mathematics

Clitograph level, French, 1862-1900

Surveying

1862-1900

Graphometer, British, 1851-1900

Surveying

1851-1900

Chair, Cheshire Lines Committee, oak, low-backed with seat re-upholstered in red leatherette, CLC interlocked initials carved on back.

Oak chair, Cheshire Lines Committee

Railway Furniture

Knitting needles used by Alexander Crum Brown

Mathematics

1890-1910

Georgian Cupboard

Local History

1725-1750

Model of the Smalls Lighthouse (1775-6) on a wood diorama base depicting a rock jetty and the sea

Navigation

1861-1862

1/4 scale porcelain statuette of Jimmy Orrell

Aeronautics

1989

Title page of Punch and fascimile by Abney's Papyr

Photography

Bartrum open-scale barometer, 1892

Meteorology

1892