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Openshaw-type artifcial hand, Birmingham, England, 1916-1918

1916-1918

Set of 4 corn knives

1871-1900

Silver cigarette box lined with cedar wood

1962

Phenol formaldehyde Bandalasta pepperpot, English, 1920-1940

1920-1940

Hatter's rule

1835-1862

Thiourea-urea-formaldehyde hexagonal Bandalastaware bowl

1924-1931

Morse tapper key

1945-1954

Austin Seven motor car, 1922.

1922

Prototype wearable computer made by Robert Buckley in Birmingham

1998-1999

Six-lens Lancaster Camera

1896

Wolseley 7.5 H.P. motor car, with side lamps, spare wheels, and Brighton run presentation tankard

1902-1903

Joseph Priestley. Medal in bronze by Halliday

1804-1805

Plaster mould, male profile possibly Attila

1790-1819

Apothecaries' balance, 5" steel, in mahogany box

Thiourea-urea-formaldehyde Bandalastaware sugar caster, 1930

1930

Model of beam and two connecting rods

c.1785

Discatron portable record player

1966-1968

Castles at Tyseley

1967

SE5A fighter, 1917.

1917

Coronation souvenir: box with lid, decorated with royal coat of arms

1953

Gold Locket containing a photograph of Albert Edward Marshall

1916

Two pink Bandalasta eggcups

1940-1959
5 litre flask, complete, for oxygen breathing apparatus

Hinks liquid oxygen vaporiser c 1930.

1930
Button, British Rail, chrome "Double Arrow" c.1966, back stamped 'Buttons Limited Birmingham', Dimensions: 1" dia.

British Rail button

1966
Lapel badge, Railway Convalescent Homes, made by H.W. Miller Ltd. of Birmingham. 8 small shields, with a white horse in the centre encircled by the words 'Railway Convalescent Homes'.

Lapel badge

[Holograph letter] 1784 Oct 30, Birm[ingha]m, [to] Mr. James McGrigor, M[---]d, via Ferrybridge, Glasgow / J. Watt. [McGrigor was Watt's second father-in-law. He wishes to revise 'my survey of the ground between Inverness and Fort William' but fears 'the estimate is less than it can be done for'. Re Mr. Arkwright 'he is, to say no worse, one of the most self sufficient ignorant men I have ever met with', yet 'certainly a man of merit in his way, and one to whom Britain is much indebted and whom she should honour & reward'. Watt gives details of past dealings with Arkwright, adding that 'our rotative engines ... are certainly very applicable to the driving of cotton mills'. He continues 'As Mr Boulton is absent I cannot give any answer .. about the Engineership of this Great Canal'. His mind is 'almost wholly turned toward the steam engine', and 'business which is now very extensive takes up all the time that bad health will permit me to work'. He says 'we must ... go to law with some people who encroach on our patent rights'. He adds his views on taxation 'which is exclusively leveled at trade and manufactures'. And 'our business is going on successfully, and could we only depend on its durability we need look for no better']

Holograph letter 1784 Oct 30

1784 Oct 30
Packet containing double cyanide gauze, Southall Bros. and Barclays Ltd, Birmingham; Charford Mills, 1914-1918.

Packet containing double cyanide gauze

1914-1918
'Tompion Medal', presented in 1996 by the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers to Dr Bernard Guinot for his contributions to the implementation of Co-ordinated Universal Time

'Tompion Medal'

1996
Ninety degrees, section of a fixed-lens (4th-order) lighthouse optic, 36 inches high, (internal crack in top prism) by Chance Brothers, Birmingham, England, c. 1895.

Fresnel lighthouse optic

1890-1900
Coronet 9.5mm cine camera, 1932, in original carton with accessories including three bulbs, film spool, and three colour film filters.

Coronet 9.5mm Camera, Box and Accessories.

1932
Intervision 486 wearable computer with head-mounted display, by the University of Birmingham, England, 1995.

Intervision 486 computer with head-mounted display

1995
Packet containing Lord Listers double cyanide gauze, Cuxon Gerrard & Company Ltd. Birmingham, 1914-1918.

Packet containing double cyanide gauze

1914-1918
Packet containing Lord Listers double cyanide gauze, Cuxon Gerrard & Company Ltd. Birmingham; Corporation street, 1914-1918.

Packet containing double cyanide gauze

1914-1918
Seca Cardiotest 100 cycle ergometer, model 545, with digital display of load, rpm, heart rate and duration, used for exercise testing of cardiac patients (without electrodes), by Seca Ltd, UK, produced for Seca Vogel & Halke, Hamburg, Germany, serial no. 920265, 1993

Cardiotest 100 cycle ergometer, 1993.

1993