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scale with metal stand for Thompson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Thomson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

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

three-nail microphone, 1875-1880

Telecommunications

1875-1880

Furness Railway steam locomotive 'Coppernob' 0-4-0, No 3, 1846

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1846

Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

Telecommunications

1851

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

Wellcome (general)

1701-1800

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

Mathematics

1815

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

Platt Brothers Notice

Textile Industry

1899

Lancashire Loom

Textile Industry

c. 1880

Pedometer by Spencer & Perkins

Surveying

1775-1794

Cloth tape measure

Hand and Machine Tools

1850-1860

Half-penny coin

Textile Industry

1806

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria' 0-4-0, 1829

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Brake composite/observation saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1834

Hank Winding Machine

Textile Industry

1897

Millwright's measuring tool

Weighing & Measuring

around 1790

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

Textile Industry

c. 1900

Bullion box containing lead shot

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1855

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

Huskisson Memorial

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1831

George III's guinea and feather' apparatus

King George III

1761

George III's cycloidal pendulum

King George III

1762

George III's compound engine

King George III

1762

George III's pendulum

King George III

1762

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

Telecommunications

1854

Le Prince Single-lens Cine Camera

Cinematography

1888

George III's weighted cylinder

King George III

1762

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

Telecommunications

1851

stock exchange automatic telegraph, 1872-1880

Telecommunications

1872-1880

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

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

Textiles Machinery

1837

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Embossing telegraph receiver 1878-1900

Telecommunications

1878-1900

Two dried plant specimens labelled anemone alpina

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1883

Dried specimen of prenanthes purpurea

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1883

Luke Howard's original rain guage

Meteorology

1818

Terrestrial globe by John Senex

Astronomy

1738