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Apparatus to demonstrate the thermal expansion of liquids, mid 19th century.

1831-1870

Model of hut and garden made of modelling clay

1996

A Night Scene During the Construction of Mulberry Harbour

circa 1944

Racing off Ryde

circa 1955

James Pyke, First Chief Accountant, Great Western Railway (1839-1854)

1853

The Lake District for Holidays - Honister Crag

1930

Stirling Castle

circa 1930

Oil painting by J LYR train hauled by 4-4-0 locomotive

1899

1st Viscount Churchill

1920-1940

Oil painting by D. Relf

1948

Wooden Tripod stand with cover for lamp

1820

Bottle of Apiezon "B" Oil for use in vacuum pumps, 20th century.

1920-1980

Bottle of sterile Catgut Ligatures, Scottish, 1890-1920.

1890-1920

SS Glen Sannox on the Clyde

circa 1925

Cipher machine

1938

Oil painting by J. Longden

circa 1899

Glorious Devon

1951

Felixstowe

1952

Glenariff

circa 1935

the earl cawdor

1911

SS Kirkham Abbey

1908

Davy lamp, made 1820

1820

Unidentified seated man

circa 1850
Double Barometer and thermometer

Double' barometer and thermometer, c. 1740.

1730-1760
Oil-on-canvas mural in three sections, each 12 ft x 9ft, depicting ships of all ages. Neg. No:4535.

Oil-on-canvas mural in three sections,

Oil bottle, double, with dropper, still with oil in base

Oil bottle

Oil painting, Ireland Overnight, by Claude Buckle, about 1950. Depicts the passenger ferry TSS Duke of Lancaster crossing the Irish Sea at night, lit by a shaft of moonlight from a cloudy sky. Preparatory painting for British Railways (London Midland Region) poster Ireland Overnight, Dublin via Holyhead/Belfast via Heysham. Signed by the artist at bottom right. Framed and unglazed.

Ireland Overnight

circa 1950
Wooden drawer from a medicine chest containing ten bottles of oil with vellum coverings. Drawer: 245mm x 90 mm x 60 mm, 390 g. Although most of the bottles are not labelled, a few are legible including 'Olio del gran duce', 'Olio coni. Veleni' and 'Olio de Spasimo'. Unknown maker, probably Italian.

Wooden drawer of oil bottles

Screen for hygrometers containing wet and dry bulb thermometers, hair hygrometer and minimum thermometer, as used in Norway, 1875.

Screen for hygrometers with thermometers and their box

1875
Baltospot 140 x-ray machine by Balteau, Liège, Belgium, c.1964, comprising head unit, base and pillar, and control and timer unit, plus associated items (interconnecting boxes and wiring (incomplete), two illuminated warning signs, and purpose-built rotatable support for base an pillar)

Baltospot 140 x-ray machine by Balteau

1959-1969
Immersion oil, in screw-capped bottle

Immersion oil, in screw-capped bottle

1900-1980