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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

Rectal speculum

Clinical Diagnosis

1870-1890

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

Telecommunications

1850

Brass amulet to protect the wearer from cholera, France, 1820-1880

Wellcome Medals

1820-1880

Wine glass possibly used as a culture glass by Joseph Lister

Microbiology

1860-1877

three-nail microphone, 1875-1880

Telecommunications

1875-1880

Silver vinaigrette with hinged lid

Pharmacy-ware

1809

Pewter box for transporting leeches

Therapeutics

1801-1900

Metal hand clutching a sprig of rue

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1800-1850

Drug jar for cinchona bark

Medical Ceramic-ware

1701-1730

Pill tile with four short legs

Pharmacy-ware

1701-1800

Ear trumpet made from shell

Audiology

1850-1900

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

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

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

Wellcome (general)

1701-1800

Dental impression tray

Dentistry

1830-1850

Display case of specimens of cinchona calisaya bark

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1830-1880

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

Water Supply Metering

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Coherer with coarse brass turnings, 1894

Radio Communication

1894

Filings coherer, glass tube formed into T-shape at one end and bent round into U-shape at other end with bulb, 1899

Radio Communication

1899

Creamware plate, scalloped outer edge and decorate

Medical Ceramic-ware

1771-1900

printing block

Textile Industry

c.1840

Braiding Machine

Textile Industry

c.1900

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

Astronomy

1738-1777

Cloth tape measure

Hand and Machine Tools

1850-1860

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

Felt and Tarrant Comptometer, 1887.

Mathematics

c. 1900

Great Western Railway locomotive headlamp

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1897

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

stock exchange automatic telegraph, 1872-1880

Telecommunications

1872-1880

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

Luke Howard's original rain guage

Meteorology

1818

Huskisson Memorial

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1831

Bullion box containing lead shot

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1855

NER 0-6-0 '1001' class steam locomotive and tender, No 1275, 1874

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829