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Steam locomotive, entitled Evening Star

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1960

Compagnie Internationale de Wagon-Lits et de Grands Express Europeens sleeping car, 1933

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1933

Pullman Car Company, called Topaz

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1913

Great Western Railway steam locomotive 'King George V' 4-6-0 King class, No 6000, 1927

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1927

Queen Elizabeth's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1941

Small Electrolux ammonia absorption domestic refrigerator

Domestic Appliances

1945-1955

Surveyor's compass

Surveying

1695-1766

Mechanical-advantage demonstration with pulley block and weight.

Children's Gallery

1932

Magnetic compass, European, 1700-1730

Surveying

1700-1730

Galvanised iron canister, for winch wire cable, for Ocean depth sounding machine, used for marine vessel navigation

Navigation

1876

Mechanical-advantage demonstration with pulley block and weight.

Children's Gallery

1932

Flow inducer blood-heparin pump

Therapeutics

1970

Steam locomotive, Great Western Railway, Dean Goods, 0-6-0, No 2516, designed by William Dean, built at Swindon in 1897, withdrawn in 1956.

Steam locomotive 'Dean Goods', Great Western Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

Precision Aneroid Barometer MkI, by Mechanism Ltd, in wooden case. Serial no.463/63. British patents 816073, 848172, Swiss patent 342011, Swedish patent 175657, and USA patent 175657 refer

Precision Aneroid Barometer MkI, by Mechanism Ltd,

Meteorology

1963

Steam locomotive, Great Western Railway, 0-6-0PT No 9400, built at Swindon in 1947, withdrawn in 1959.

Hawkesworth 'Pannier tank' No. 9400, Great Western Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1947

Railway carriage, Great Western Railway, Buffet Car No 9631, built in 1934.

Buffet Car No 9631, Great Western Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1934

Steam locomotive, London & North Western Railway, 0-4-0ST No 1439, designed by John Ramsbottom, built at Crewe in 1865, withdrawn in 1954.

Steam locomotive, number 1439

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1865

Bichromate or Poggendorf cell; glass bottle with long narrow neck and brass collar. Into brass collar fits a stopper with two terminals and screw for locking central zinc plate at any height. Zinc plate is flanked on either side by carbon blocks, which in this case are made in two halves so they can be replaced.

poggendorf or bichromate cell

Electricity Supply

Galvanised iron canister lid, for Ocean depth sounding machine, used for marine vessel navigation, patented by Sir William Baron Kelvin Thomson, British, 1876 and made by James White, Glasgow, Scotland, 1876

Galvanised iron canister lid, for winch wire tank, part of Ocean depth-sounding machine, for marine vessel navigation

Navigation

1876

Galvanised cast iron sinker weight hollowed at base, for Ocean depth sounding machine, used for marine vessel navigation, patented by Sir William Baron Kelvin Thomson, British, 1876 and made by James White, Glasgow, Scotland, 1876

Galvanised cast iron sinker weight, for Ocean depth sounding machine, used for marine vessel navigation

Navigation

1876

Cupping vessel, soldered galvanised steel Luxor, Egypt, 1800-1910

Cupping vessel, soldered galvanised steel, Egypt

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1800-1910

Galvanised cast iron sinker weight hollowed at base, for Ocean depth sounding machine, used for marine vessel navigation, patented by Sir William Baron Kelvin Thomson, British, 1876 and made by James White, Glasgow, Scotland, 1876

Galvanised cast iron sinker weight hollowed at base, for Ocean depth sounding machine, used for marine vessel navigation

Navigation

1876

Motor Coach, Southern Railway and British Railways Southern Region, electric motor 3rd brake, No S8143S, 4-sub (Suburban) of 1925.

Motor coach, Southern Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1925

Galvanised cast iron sinker weight hollowed at base, for Ocean depth sounding machine, used for marine vessel navigation, patented by Sir William Baron Kelvin Thomson, British, 1876 and made by James White, Glasgow, Scotland, 1876

Galvanised cast iron sinker weight hollowed at base, for Ocean depth sounding machine, used for marine vessel navigation

Navigation

1876