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Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

Demainbray's Newcomen engine model

1720
Demainbray's speaking trumpet

Demainbray's speaking trumpet

1700-1752
Demainbray's hydrostatic paradox vessels

Demainbray's hydrostatic paradox vessels

1735-1752
Model steam locomotive, gauge 'O' tinplate, No.2270

Model steam locomotive, gauge 'O' tinplate, No.2270

1939
Model of Halley's diving bell

Model of Halley's diving bell

1752
model beam engine, 1821

model beam engine, 1821

1821
Lorentz 'Instantaneous light machine', 1807-1820.

Lorentz 'Instantaneous light machine', 1807-1820.

1807-1820
Clockwork roasting jack

Clockwork roasting jack

Instrument possibly used to observe atmospheric electricity

Instrument possibly used to observe atmospheric electricity

Glass IPT D hydrometer by unknown maker

Glass IPT D hydrometer by unknown maker

1930-1980
Early Sikes' hydrometer 6 1/2" long

Early Sikes' hydrometer 6 1/2" long

1802
Model of Savery's engine.

Model Savery engine, before 1754.

1698-1744
Model railway track warning lights gauge 1 tinplate spring loaded

Model railway track warning lights gauge 1 tinplate spring loaded

1910
Model steam locomotive, Southern Railway 3rd rail electric

Model steam locomotive, Southern Railway 3rd rail electric

1939
Model railway layout

Model railway layout

1912
Model steam train, London & North Western Railway

Model steam train, London & North Western Railway

1911
Model railway carriage, gauge 'O' tinplate LMS 4-wheeled composite, red livery boxed by Hornby, England, c.1939

Model railway carriage, LMS 4-wheeled composite

1939
Model railway carriage, gauge `1' tinplate, London and North Western Railway bogie 1st class No.1921, by Bing, Germany for Bassett-Lowke, Northampton, c 1910.

Model London & North Western Railway carriage

1905-1915
Model railway carriage, gauge 'O' tinplate, LMS 4-wheeled composite, red livery, boxed, by Hornby, England, c.1939

Model railway carriage, LMS 4-wheeled composite

1939
Advertisement, Wills's Gold Flake cigarettes, illustrating London & North Eastern Railway streamline train hauled by A4 4-6-2 No. 2512 Silver Fox, celluloid on tinplate,c. 1938, 380mm x 510mm.

Wills's Gold Flake cigarettes

circa 1938
Stringbox, DN & GR (LNWR). Tinplate, painted black and stamped LNWR. Cylindrical with flared base. Dimensions 6"x5" diam.

Stringbox, DN & GR (LNWR). Tinplate

Bandage (adhesive)

Bandage (adhesive)

Box for spermaceti ointment, empty

Box for spermaceti ointment

Melloni's apparatus by Elliott Bros., London, England, 1888. Comprising cast iron bed with three sliding uprights and one upright with radial arm carrying two sliding pillars and a counterweight, plus various accessory apparatus: Locatelli's lamp and reflector, spirit lamp with cover on sliding base, reflector with hook and platinum spiral for heat source, thermopile with double cone and with two caps, line thermopile, plain screen, hinged screen, screen with aperture disc, double screen, black mirror, Leslie's cube with holder, copper hood heat source, two plates of rock salt in glass container, glass cell, angled mica plates in fixed mount, angled mica plates in rotatable mount, mica plates fixed perpendicular to the radiation in rotatable mount, mica plates in frame for varying angle of incliation to the radiation, wooden clamp, and wooden table.

Melloni's apparatus for demonstrating properties of infrared radiation

1888
Box for Zinc ointment, empty

Box for Zinc ointment

Kodak magnesium ribbon holder. Triangular tinplate holder for magnesium ribbon with wooden thumb wheel.

Kodak Magnesium Ribbon Holder

1930s
Model (scale 1:50) of a Dredger for Tin Ore, in glazed case (glass at base chipped) and its base

Model of a dredger for tin ore

c1908
Stand for Pascal's Vases apparatus made by W. and S. Jones, 30 Holborn, London

Stand for Pascal's Vases apparatus made by W. and S. Jones

1808-1860
Leslie's cube, tinplate

Leslie's cube, tinplate

1943-1980
Stringbox, DN & GR (LNWR). Tinplate, painted black. Cylindrical with flared base, from Greenore Station. Dimensions 6" x5" diam.

Stringbox, DN & GR (LNWR). Tinplate

Model of a ladle machine for raising water

Ladle machine, 1754.

1754
Early shutter, c. 1890, marked 'patent'.

Early Shutter

1890
Glass hydrometer by Hicks. Mercury weight, and ivory scale. In tinplate tube. Range 0 - 40

Glass hydrometer by Hicks.Mercury weight

1870-1900
Model steam locomotive 'o' gauge tinplate, clockwork, Midland Railway 2-4-4 T No.2000.( Modified from 0-6-4 T) Originally made by Bing, Germany, c 1912.

Model clockwork steam locomotive, c 1912

1907-1917
Model steam locomotive, 'O' gauge tinplate, London & North Eastern Railway 4-4-2 No.4472 `Flying Scotsman', clockwork, by Hornby, England, c.1930.

Clockwork model, Flying Scotsman

1930
Model railway signalbox, 'O' gauge tinplate electric, by Hornby, England, c.1955

Model railway signalbox, O gauge tinplate

1955
Model railway wagon gauge `1' tinplate, 4-wheeled tank wagon No.23, private owner, Shields and Brown, Glasgow, by Bing, Germany, c.1910.

Model railway wagon gauge `1' tinplate

1910
Model railway station 'O' gauge tinplate, by Hornby, England, c.1950

Model railway station, O gauge tinplate

1950
Model railway buffers, 'OO' gauge tinplate No.1 spring loaded, boxed, by Hornby, England, c.1955

Model railway buffers, Hornby

1955
Model railway turntable, 'O' gauge tinplate, 8-road, by Hornby, England, c.1955

Model railway turntable, O gauge tinplate

1955
Model railway buffers, 'O' gauge tinplate, with electric lights, by Hornby, England, c.1955

Model railway buffers

1955
Model railway loading gauge, 'O' gauge tinplate, boxed, by Hornby, England, c.1955

Model railway loading gauge

1955
Model railway wagons (3), 'O' gauge tinplate, 4-wheeled timber, by Hornby, England, c.1950

Model railway wagon, O gauge tinplate

1950
Model railway wagon, 'O' gauge tinplate, bogie timber, by Hornby, England, c.1950

Model railway wagon, bogie timber

1950
Model steam locomotive, 'O' gauge tinplate, LNER 0-4-0 No.4-4-4, clockwork, by Hornby, England, c.1947

Model locomotive, London & North Eastern Railway

1947
Model railway carriage, 'O' gauge tinplate, LNER 4-wheeled brake, teak livery, by Hornby, England, c.1939

Model ralway carriage, O gauge tinpate

1939
Model railway signal, 'O' gauge tinplate, double-arm home and distant boxed, by Hornby, England, c.1955

Model railway signal, O gauge tinplate

1955
Model railway level crossing, 'O' gauge tinplate, for clockwork layout, by Hornby, England, c.1955

Model railway level crossing

1955
Model railway signal, 'O' gauge tinplate, stop & distant, by Hornby, England, c.1955

Model railway signal

1955
Model railway wagon gauge `1' tinplate, Great Northern Railway 8-ton, 4-wheeled box van No. 2882, supplied by Gamages, London, probably by Bing, Germany, c.1910

Model railway wagon gauge `1' tinplate

1910