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Brass collimator with spring shutter on one end.

Cylindrical brass weight with the number "11" engraved.

copper coloured tube with screw holes at one end.

brass framed screw-on telescope objective with focal length approx.30" (760 mm).

18 small glass beads, all but one numbered. In circular wooden box. Instructions for use on paper stuck inside lid. Likley to be the box of spirit bubbles' purhcased in 1833 by Prof William Knight.

a block of wood with a wooden rod coming out perpendicular

large concave mirror set in dark wooden frame. In style of demonstration equipment from first half of 18th century and may well date from then. Original would have been held in a mirror stand.

Brass cylindrical stand on 3 feet

1 large adjustable spark gap with 1/2 mm separation scale from 0 to 100 mm. Balls plated brass; silver coloured. For detecting spark transmissions following Hertz's method.

Brass optical stand on a lead base with felt covering.
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