Accession No

5358.1

Brief Description

Ottoman Turkish manuscript sheet, C18th or C19th, with fake image added in late C20th showing map of world. False date of 1734 AD; image is a late C20th forgery.

Origin

Turkey; Istanbul [source of forgery - source of original manuscript sheet is likely to also be Turkey]

Maker

Accession No

1155

Brief Description

Piazzi-Smyth’s great pyramid measure, by Charles Piazzi-Smyth, Egyptian, 1865: piece of basalt marked with 5-inch standard; and wooden standard rule, by Bryson, Scottish, 1881, made from the original template

Origin

Egypt; Giza; and Scotland; Edinburgh

Maker

Piazzi-Smyth, Charles [basalt standard] Adie and Son [thermometers] Bryson [wooden standard]

Accession No

5101

Brief Description

botanical wallchart of leaves' external morphology, leaves of Heptapleurum, by Arthur Shrubbs

Origin

Maker

Shrubbs, Arthur

Accession No

5104

Brief Description

botanical wallchart of leaves' external morphology, pitchers: Dionaea plant in flower, by Shrubbs

Origin

Maker

Shrubbs

Accession No

5584

Brief Description

botanical wall chart depicting Marsilea Megaspore and young plant, by Shrubbs

Origin

Maker

Shrubbs

Accession No

5565

Brief Description

Botanical wallchart, depicting Equisetum: cortical canals.

Origin

Maker

Shrubbs

Accession No

0359

Brief Description

surveying compass, by George Adams Jnr., English, 1790 (c)

Origin

England; London; Fleet Street

Maker

Adams, George (Jnr.)

Accession No

4529.170

Brief Description

Vatman Extra electronic pocket calculator, by Decimo, Japanese, 1976 (c)

Origin

Japan

Maker

Decimo

Accession No

4067

Brief Description

Electrite electrocardiograph (ECG), the first English Electrite made from the U.S.A. design, by Cambridge Instrument Company, English, 1950 (c)

Origin

England

Maker

Cambridge Instrument Company Ltd.

Accession No

4661

Brief Description

botanical wallchart, depicting cork growth in potato tubers, by Paul Parey, W. A. Weyn, Frank, and Tschirch, German, c. 1850-1967

Origin

Germany; Berlin

Maker

Parey, Paul [publisher] Meyn, W. A. [lithographer] Frank [artist] Tschirch [artist]