Accession No

0332

Brief Description

simple microscope, withering botanical type, circa 1800

Origin

Maker

Accession No

4529.099

Brief Description

Dinky LC-705 electronic pocket calculator, by Decimo, Taiwanese, 1976 (c)

Origin

Taiwan

Maker

Decimo

Accession No

6692

Brief Description

tourmaline tongs, device for polarising light, 19th Century

Origin

Maker

Accession No

0552

Brief Description

horary quadrant and nocturnal, Italian, 1531

Origin

Northern Italy

Maker

Accession No

2011

Brief Description

optical pyrometer by Wanner, 4/4 19th C

Origin

Maker

Wanner

Accession No

4988

Brief Description

botanical wallchart, depicting parts of Laurus nobilis L, by Friedrich Vieweg, C. Bollmann, and Zippel, Germany, c. 1900-1967

Origin

Germany; Braunschweig

Maker

Vieweg, Friedrich [publisher] Bollmann, C. [lithographer and artist] Zippel, Hermann [editor]

Accession No

0253

Brief Description

compound microscope, pocket, circa 1870

Origin

Maker

Accession No

0307

Brief Description

rectilinear regiomontanus dial, German, first half 17th century

Origin

Germany

Maker

Accession No

1027

Brief Description

telescope tube, possibly part of William Molyneux’s “Sciothericum Telescopicum”, 18th century

Origin

Maker

Accession No

6719

Brief Description

satirical print, Calves' Heads and Brains or a Phrenological Lecture, showing a caricature of a phrenologist (possibly George Combe) lecturing to an audience amongst plaster heads, pictures, and books, by J. Lump and P. Bump [pseudonyms], 1826

Origin

Maker

Lump, J. [pseudonym] Bump, J. [pseudonym]