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Brass pipe, with ivory nozzle, used for hydrostatic demonstration

Sectioned thermostatic Steam Trap, 1" diameter pipe

Section through cast iron pipe bronze welded

pipe

Cast Iron Water Pipe from Water Street

Pipe, jade (broken). 5 3/4" long

Stone Water Pipe

Wooden Pipe

Wooden Water Pipe

'Y' shaped pipe connector

1945-1955

Serpentine and pewter tobacco pipe

1890-1930

Iron tabocco pipe

1880-1925

Ceramic pipe used as a cable conduit

1940-1960

Taper Hydraulic Pipe

1899

Gauze pipe and threaded plug from the incomplete turbojet engine

Right angled pipe from a model of Maudslay's 1807 table engine (scale 1:24)

1807

pipe

Copper pipe with brass union at one end, and a T-piece with tap at the other

Glass pipe, with cork bottle stopper at one end and rubber hose attached to the other, from Dennstedt's electric combustion furnace

Pipe, clay, 6 1/2" long

Ivory opium pipe, with repoussé brass pipe bowl mount and terracotta bowl

Wooden framed organ pipe, parchment sides

1800-1850

Three canvas pipe sections, for the Harold Hume Piffard Aeroplane E.N.V. Aero-engine

Part sectioned pipe with joint, showing improved streamlined branch construction

Piece of 2 in. diam. corrugated steel pipe

1" Dewrance's Bronze Cone Union for iron pipe, sectioned

Copper pipe, with ring attachment at one end

Wooden tobacco pipe

1900-1935

Serpentine stone tobacco pipe

1880-1915

Wooden tobacco pipe

1890-1925

Wooden Water Pipes

Stone Pipe

Ceramic pipe used as a cable conduit

1940-1960
Pump, pipe, gauze from Croll Testimonial. This is part of the Croll Testimonial ceremonial centrepiece.

Pump, pipe, gauze from Croll Testimonial

Pipe, mass-produced, painted bright red, used for smoking tobaccos or other contents of smoker's choice, labelled 'Tattoo', possibly the name of the maker, made in Holland, c.1999.

Pipe, mass-produced, painted bright red

1999
Part sectioned pipe with joint, showing improved method of making streamlined branches in pipe systems, with 2 tools used to form flange for joint

Part sectioned pipe, with two tools used to form flange

Four foot length of stone water pipe, twelve inch internal diameter, with octagonal stone collar joint

Stone water pipe section

Section of atmospheric pipe from South Devon Railway mounted on wooden presentation plaque. Includes illustration of a passenger train on Brunel's atmospheric railway passing along Brunel's sea wall at Dawlish in South Devon, with inscription underneath.

Section of atmospheric pipe from South Devon Railway mounted on wooden presentation plaque

Short piece of pipe covered with Leroy's patent 1865, non-conducting composition for boilers

Short piece of pipe covered with Leroy's patent 1865, non-conducting composition for boilers

Short piece of pipe covered with fossil meal non-conducting composition

Short piece of pipe covered with fossil meal non-conducting composition

six/seven pieces of water logged elm(?) pipe, circa1600. It was used to drain the moat at Clayton Hall, Clayton. manufacturer unknown

pipe

Cast iron pipe from Lower Chelburn reservoir, north of Littleborough, which was constructed as a feeder reservoir for the Rochdale canal.

Cast iron pipe from Lower Chelburn reservoir

Large pipe; part of chain haulage system. Used at Old Medow Colliery.

Pipe for haulage system

Smoker's pipe - made from bakelite and shaped like an airship with gondoler and fins and a bowl of briar inserted in the top

Smoker's pipe

1910-1940
Three foot six inch length lead pipe formed by continuous extrusion process in 1930, together with small drawing illustrating process

Three foot six inch length lead pipe

1930
Vacuum pipe from Beamline 16.5 of the Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory, Daresbury, Cheshire, in use from 1993 to 2008. Used to isolate the vacuum in the beamline

Vacuum Pipe from Beamline 16.5, Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory

Eight inch length of Roman lead pipe about four inches diam. with overcast longitudinal seam, from the old Roman baths at Bath

Eight inch length of Roman lead pipe about four inches diam. with overcast longitudinal seam

Eduction pipe - 2 pieces joined with spigot of faucet expansion joint

Eduction Pipe

Length of 8" nom bore steam pipe approx. 2' radius made of steel welded construction with 8" riveted branch and welded flanges illustrates examples of joints and early welds

Length of 8" nom bore steam pipe

Cast iron uptake (?) pipe with square flanges, cast iron elbow with one square flange and rodding point and two covers that fit the rodding point, a larger cover for the rodding point on a stove uptake, and a rectangular cast-iron cover probably from the oil-box of a machine bearing

Cast iron uptake (?) pipe with square flanges