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Steam locomotive, entitled Evening Star

1960

Pullman Car Company, called Topaz

1913

Compagnie Internationale de Wagon-Lits et de Grands Express Europeens sleeping car, 1936

1936

Steam locomotive 'Dean Goods', Great Western Railway

1897

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

1927

Surveyor's compass

1695-1766

Mechanical-advantage demonstration with pulley block and weight.

1932

Mechanical-advantage demonstration with pulley block and weight.

1932

Magnetic compass, European, 1700-1730

1700-1730

Stock Exchange ticker

1898-1903

Precision Aneroid Barometer MkI

1963

Small Electrolux ammonia absorption domestic refrigerator designed to operate on paraffin

1945-1955

Steam locomotive, number 1439

1865

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

1947

Queen Elizabeth's Saloon

1941

Flow inducer blood-heparin pump

1970

Cupping vessel

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

1876
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

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

Buffet Car No 9631, Great Western Railway

1934
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

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 hollowed at base

1876