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Compound monocular microscope

1870-1880

Bell Transmitter with Membrane Diaphragm, 1875-1877

1875-1877

'Leesona' Pirn Winder

1893-1959

X-ray tubes

1910-1920

Stereo Hawkeye Model No 2 camera. Stereoscopic camera for roll film 118

circa 1904-1907

Industrial lockstitch button hole sewing machine by The Union Button Sewing Machine Co.

Hammond's Improved Planisphere

1890-1910

Vaginal speculum

1851-1900

Ritchie's patent liquid compass with hollow metal cross type compass rose in tin bowl

07-04-1863

Whitworth square die nut

Caisson gauge, calibrated for heat, 1940

1940

Metal piston-action syringe

Hypodermic syringe for administering anaesthetics in the mouth

Microscope by Tolles, 1870

1870

Demonstration microscope by Tolles

1850-1880

Cataract cryoextractor

1980

Wooden shoe polisher by Whittemore Bros. and Co., Boston

Main drive

1880-1920

Lloyd hygrodeik, 1903.

1903

Singer Lockstitch sewing machine model of 1851

1851-1855

Combined vaginal

1871-1900

Hypodermic syringe

1900-1914

Uterine curette with steel shaft and ebony handle

1871-1900

Gas burner for lighting by electricity

1879

Notice of ‘The late Sarti's new Florentine anatomical model’ exhibit, Boston, England, c. 1854

1850-1859

Atomiser, made by Whitall Tatum Company

Keystone Model A-12 Cine Camera

1949

Admission ticket to medical lectures on midwifery, Boston, United States, 1830-1837

1830-1837

Celestial globe (12-inch) by Josiah Loring

1833

Double thread chain-stitch treadle sewing machine

1853-1858

Grover and Baker two-thread chain-stitch sewing machine, 1871.

1871

Student microscope on cast iron stand

1900-1925

Watch movement converted from key winding to keyless winding

1860-1910

Comins electro-psychrometer by the American Moistening Co.

1910

Crosby pressure gauge indicator

Keystone 8mm camera model K-8. Cine camera for double run 8mm film. Fitted with a Wollensak cine Veliostigmat lens, iris diaphragm f/3.5-16. Screw mount 12, 16, 48 fps, clockwork motor, lock on button. Folding frame finder, direct vision optical finder. Rotary footage indicator. No.887926. Keystone.

Keystone 8mm camera model K-8. Cine camera for double run 8mm film. Fitted with a Wollensak cine Veliostigmat lens

1937

Weights from the Castlereagh Collection for Boston (USA). Boxed set of 6 cylindrical brass weights for the Troy and Avoirdupois system in a leather bound lockable case.

Weights from the Castlereagh Collection for Boston

1800-1818

Original Remington Arms lock-stitch sewing machine head: the 'Empire' model of 1870, by the Remington Arms Company, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 1870.

Remington Arms Company lock-stitch sewing machine, 1870.

1870

X-ray tube, with tungsten anti-cathode, aluminium cathode and asbestos vacuum regulator, by Macalaster Wiggin Co., American,1915

X-ray tube with tungsten anti-cathode, aluminium cathode and asbestos vacuum regulator, American,1915

1910-1920

Steam engine indicator made by Crosby Steam Gage and Valve Company, Boston. Date made about 1895. Recording drum 900mm x 460mm diameter

Steam engine indicator made by Crosby Steam Gage and Valve Company

1890-1900

Weights from the Castlereagh Collection for Boston (USA). Boxed set of 6 cylindrical brass weights for the Troy and Avoirdupois system in a leather bound lockable case.

Castlereagh Collection weights

1800-1818

Portable field microscope, Fieldmaster model FM-31, with 4 additional phase objectives and 2 lamps, by Swift International, USA, made in Japan, 1970-1985

Portable field microscope

1970-1985

Blair Hawk-Eye Junior 4x5 made by the Blair Camera Company, Boston Mass. USA. Box camera for 3 1/2" wide rollfilm or plates 4 x 5". Simple lens fixed aperture; lever focusing 100-8'; rotating shutter three speeds (unmarked) and T. Two reflecting finders. Rollfilm runs in hollow side through exposing chamber; removable ground glass focussing screen, provision for accepting darkslide. Pat, Feb 25 1890.

Blair Hawk-Eye Junior Camera

1890-1900

Refracting telescope of 2 7/8-inch aperture with mahogany tube by Robert B. Tolles, Boston, USA with case.

Refracting telescope of 2 7/8-inch aperture with mahogany tube and case

1870-1880

UPI telephoto. Caption on back reads: BOSTON: A diagram shows as Dr. Judah Folkman explains how he headed a team of surgeons that saved Jan Dangora's left lower leg after it was 95% amuptated when he was brought into City Hospital 9/1/66 following a motorcycle accident. Dangora, shown, was discharged from hospital 2/1 with feeling restored to his leg but for one small part.

Doctor save's man's leg

02 February 1967

The "Small" Pocket Calculator, a circular slide rule patented 1918, made by G. Small, Boston, in leather pouch

The "Small" Pocket Calculator

"Sweeper-Vac" carpet sweeper by Pneuvac Ltd., Boston, Mass., 1915

"Sweeper-Vac" carpet sweeper by Pneuvac Ltd

1915

Rigged model, scale 1:64, of the only seven-masted schooner every built, the "Thomas W. Lawson"(1902), by Elmer F. Tanner, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, 1902-1929

Model of seven-masted schooner 'Thomas W. Lawson'

1902-1929

Forsyth glass silver nitrate applicator, boxed, with conductors and instructions, by P.N. Condit, 120 Boylston Street, Boston, USA, 1920-1940

Forsyth glass silver nitrate applicator

1925-1940

Boxed glass bottles of "Anodyne Filling" temporary cement with instructions, by P.N. Condit, 120 Boylston Street, Boston, USA, 1930-1955

"Anodyne Filling" temporary cement

1930-1955