Working Number | Name | Holding Museum | Date | Materials | Curator Justification |
RO 008 | Patent for the invention of the fountain pen with a replaceable ink cartridge | National Museum of Romanian History | 25 May 1827 | | Among the inventions of the 19th century, one of the most common objects in the world, the fountain pen with replaceable ink cartridge, was invented by the Romanian mathematician, engineer and pedagogue, Petrache Poenaru. He studied in France and obtained a patent from the French government.
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FR 037 | Siever's patent pedestrian carriage for Ladies and Gentlemen | National Library of France | 19th century | | The 19th century also saw the invention of new and strange means of transport such as the bicycle. Like trains and the railways, these means of transport caught the imagination through prints and drawings. In France many similar prints and drawings were published throughout the 19th century.
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PT 007 | Lisbon Astronomical Observatory | | 1867 (first observations) | | Portugal joined the 19th-century trend of regarding technical progress as sign of development. The Astronomical Observatory responded to the need to study the world with the criteria of scientific knowledge and classification.
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PT 090 | Travel notebook for meteorological observations | Maritime Museum | 1884 | Paper | Meteorological, geographical and anthropological data were collected in notebooks. This notebook belonged to the Portuguese Commander Hermenegildo Capelo, who used it during an expedition to the interior of the African continent from Angola to Mozambique in 1884–85. The colony of Mozambique had an important Muslim community.
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TR2 075 | Barometer | Istanbul Railway Museum | 1888 | Metal | This barometer is one of the tools used on the new railways built in Turkey after the Crimean War.
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MO 017 | Electric telegraph machine | Itisalat al-Maghrib Museum | 1907 | | During the reign of Sultan Mulay ‘Abd al-Aziz telegraph lines were introduced in Morocco.
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UA 031 | Perpetual calendar | Sharjah Museum of Islamic Civilisation / Sharjah Museums Department | Hegira 1327 / AD 1909 | Nielloed silver, copper alloy, iron, wood, printed paper, printed textile | This object is a European calendar designed according to Ottoman, Armenian and Caucasian aesthetics. It displays innovations that entered deeply into everyday life reshaped and adapted in continuity with local artistic traditions.
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PT 079 | Electrical command and control panel for Tejo Power Station I generators | Electricity Museum | 1918 | | Later in the 19th century, power stations generated electricity for public use. Electricity was a symbol of industrialisation and modernisation for every country.
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TR2 071 | Morse transmitter | Istanbul Postal Museum | 1930 | Metal | The Morse transmitter continued to be crucial for the transmission of information, even after the invention of the telephone.
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ET1 042 | A photo of the Dairy Laboratory at Fu`ad Agricultural Museum | Bibliotheca Alexandrina | 16 January 1938 (Photo taken during the inauguration of the museum) | | Later in the 20th century, the application of technology to a wide range of sectors, among them agriculture,was common. The changes had been so deep that it was felt necessary to document traditional procedures and new technology and hygiene standards. Technical “progress” was still seen as the milestone in the advancement of the states.
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