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scale with metal stand for Thompson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Posset pot with Chinese decoration

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

1701-1750

Thomson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

Telecommunications

1850

Metal hand clutching a sprig of rue

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1800-1850

Silver vinaigrette with hinged lid

Pharmacy-ware

1809

Pill tile with four short legs

Pharmacy-ware

1701-1800

Drug jar for cinchona bark

Medical Ceramic-ware

1701-1730

Walking stick with ivory skull

Surgery

1740-1840

Six lancets and a silver carrying case

Therapeutics

1750-1850

Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

Telecommunications

1851

Memento mori ring remembering Augusta Bruce, Europe, 1701-1800

Wellcome (general)

1701-1800

Dental impression tray

Dentistry

1830-1850

Netsuke depicting man with moxa on leg

Asian Medicine

1771-1800

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

Mathematics

1815

Telescope by John Yarwell.

Optics

1685-1695

printing block

Textile Industry

c.1840

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

Astronomy

1738-1777

Half-penny coin

Textile Industry

1806

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 3rd Class open railway carriage, 1834

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1834

Millwright's measuring tool

Weighing & Measuring

around 1790

Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

Textile Industry

1850-1856

George III's weighted cylinder

King George III

1762

George III's guinea and feather' apparatus

King George III

1761

George III's cycloidal pendulum

King George III

1762

George III's pendulum

King George III

1762

Luke Howard's original rain guage

Meteorology

1818

Terrestrial globe by John Senex

Astronomy

1738

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

Mathematics

1757

'Siderius Nuncius Magna' and 'Dissertatis cum Sideris Nuncio'

Printed Books

1610-1611

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Magnetic compass and sundial by Henry Sutton

Navigation

1650-1665

Wax anatomical figure of reclining woman

Anatomy & Pathology

1771-1800

Schwann's microscope

Microscopes

1835

Pedometer by Spencer & Perkins

Surveying

1775-1794

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

Telecommunications

1854

George III's compound engine

King George III

1762

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

Textiles Machinery

1837

Adjustable dental pelican with two claws

Dentistry

1720-1800

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

Telecommunications

1851

sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

Telecommunications

1857-1858

Portion of the first submarine cable between Dover and Calais, 1850

Telecommunications

1850

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

Surveying

1791

Silver pill box, Birmingham, England, 1797

Wellcome (general)

1797

Cocked hat worn by French military surgeon

Surgery

1790-1831

Tin-glazed earthenware syrup jar

Medical Ceramic-ware

1601-1700

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

Telecommunications

1856

Upper denture, Europe, 1701-1800

Dentistry

1701-1800

Infant feeding bottle, Europe, 1701-1800

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

1771-1800

Wooden statue of St Margaret of Antioch, Europe, 1701-1850

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1701-1850