Accession No

3101

Brief Description

prism train, 4 prisms, from spectroscope by Steinheil, German, c. 1880

Origin

Germany

Maker

Steinheil

Accession No

6100

Brief Description

zoological wall chart depicting cross section Rhynchonella - psittacea, enlarged by C. C. Sowerby, English, 1850-1900

Origin

England; Cambridge; University of Cambridge; Department of Zoology

Maker

Sowerby, C. C. [enlarger]

Accession No

0863

Brief Description

Augsburg dial, by Johann Schrettegger, German, 1/4 19th Century

Origin

Germany; Augsburg

Maker

Schrettegger, Johann

Accession No

3435

Brief Description

optical component, by J. G. Hofmann, French, 19th Century

Origin

France; Paris

Maker

Hofmann, J. G.

Accession No

6721.1

Brief Description

wax model of a developmental stage of the amphioxus (lancelet, a fish-like chordate), number 1 in the series of 25, by Adolf Ziegler after Berthold Hatschek, German, 1882 (c)

Origin

Germany; Freiburg im Breisgau

Maker

Ziegler, Adolf

Accession No

0528

Brief Description

spectacles, temple and case, 1800 (c)

Origin

Maker

Accession No

5358.13

Brief Description

four 18th- or 19th-century book pages joined together, with a fake map of Europe and nonsense Arabic text added in late 20th Century, Ottoman Turkish, false date of 1734 AD but image is a late 20th-century forgery

Origin

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

Maker

Accession No

2322

Brief Description

section of telegraph cable, 1874

Origin

Maker

Telegraph Construction & Maintenance Company Limited

Accession No

L2021.IN049.2

Brief Description

compound microscope, once belonging to zoologist Arthur Shipley, with an eyepiece lens belonging to biologist Francis Maitland Balfour, by Carl Zeiss, German, 1883

Origin

Germany; Jena

Maker

Carl Zeiss

Accession No

5021

Brief Description

botanical wallchart depicting glandular hairs in Humulus, by L. Kny and C. Müller, German, 1850-1967

Origin

Germany; Berlin

Maker

Kny, L. [artist] Müller, C. [artist] Laue, E. [lithographer] Parey, Paul [publisher]