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Copper ore from the Bell Mine

before 1889

Arsenical cobalt or skutterudite, from Skutterude, near Modum, Norway

before 1889

Cupriferous sandstone from Schweinkopf

before 1889

Specimen illustrating Sherardizing process

One of three specimen boards

Specimen showing stage in the manufacture of crown glass

Crystal of ammonia alum on chrome alum

Ivory specimen

Ivory specimen with quadruple helices

Wood and ivory specimen with eight-fold helices, made with turning lathe

Solid ivory specimen with triple helices

A specimen of wiped joints in one piece being two tees

Specimen of Bismuth metal

Specimen pieces of zirconium

Specimen of Edison Bamboo Filaments

Specimen of harmonic turning

1908

Specimen of harmonic turning

1908

Specimen of harmonic turning

1908

Stone from old St. Paul’s Cathedral (built from 1087 to 1314)

Specimen of concrete from a Persian bridge

Specimen of Roman concretes and mortars

Specimen of Cornish Stone

Specimen, of Roman Villa wall tile

Black Stourbridge fire-clay

before 1889

Prepared composition of Juleff's Cornish crucibles

before 1889

Shale from Rugby

1843-1889

Red clay, Devonshire

before 1889

Edgemount pot-clay from carboniferous beds near Sheffield

before 1889

"Main" coal

before 1875

"Low Moor" coal, soft, Yorkshire

1843-1889

Coal sample which ignited spontaneously, Woolwich Gasworks, 1873

before 1873

Substance of the mould used for large steel castings at Messrs. Spear and Jackson's Atlas Works

1885

Cupreous oxide from a furnace bottom at the Sutton Copper Works

1848

Samples illustrative of the elimination of arsenic from copper

1883

Specimen of sand showing the penetrating power of copper

1860

Rich specimens of kernel roasted cupriferous pyrites

1871

Natural graphite from Ceylon, for making " black-lead" crucibles

before 1889

Fine-grained galena from Cornwall

before 1889

Undulating markings on brass

1848

Best selected copper from Messrs. Newton and Co.

1849

Piece of embossed ornamental brass work, Keswick, 1885

before 1889

Best selected copper from Messrs. Newton and Co.

1848

Defective copper from the Governor and Company of Smelters

1848

Electro-deposited copper on iron rollers for calico printing

before 1889

Defective copper, split in rolling at Clifford's Mills, Birmingham

before 1889

Electro-deposited copper from Pembrey Copper Works, Birmingham

before 1880

Calamine brass, Birmingham, 1848

1848

Superior slime ore, pounded, Keld Head Lead Works

before 1889

Lead slag with metallic lead found at Alston Moor

before 1889

Lead slag with pieces of charcoal imbedded in it

before 1889