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Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

Telecommunications

1850

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

Mathematics

1815

printing block

Textile Industry

c.1840

Half-penny coin

Textile Industry

1806

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1834

Millwright's measuring tool

Weighing & Measuring

around 1790

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 compound engine

King George III

1762

George III's pendulum

King George III

1762

Demainbray's Irish low-backed cart model

King George III

1735-1754.

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

Luke Howard's original rain guage

Meteorology

1818

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

Mathematics

1757

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

Surveying

1791

Pedometer by Spencer & Perkins

Surveying

1775-1794

Cocked hat worn by French military surgeon

Surgery

1790-1831

Infant feeding bottle, Europe, 1701-1800

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

1771-1800

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

Geophysics

1769

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

Optics

1760-1775

Model of Hooke's universal joint

King George III

1760

Mahogany pulley orrery

Astronomy

1750-1775

Silver pill box, Birmingham, England, 1797

Wellcome (general)

1797

Huskisson Memorial

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1831

Daniell cell used by Edward Davy, 1836-1839

Telecommunications

1836-1839

Arkwright's prototype spinning machine, 1769.

Textiles Machinery

1769

section of first telegraph cable, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

Wheatstone ABC telegraph receiver, 1942

Telecommunications

1842

Half-penny coin

Textile Industry

1799

Water frame spindle

Textile Industry

1800-1830

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

Textiles Machinery

c. 1846

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

Mathematics

c.1805

Brass quadrant by Peter and John Dollond of 18-inch radius with optical sights on a tripod

Astronomy

1780-1820

Pocket microscope by Jeremiah Sisson

Microscopes

1752

Copying desk, with lock and key and felt on mahogany board

Printing & Writing

1780-1800

Mechanical Powers Apparatus

King George III

1775-1800

King George III's archimedean screw

King George III

1762

Terrestrial Globe by George Adams

King George III

1766

Cylindrical condensing chamber

King George III

1761

George III's double-barrelled air pump

King George III

1761

King George III's central forces machine

King George III

1762

George III's philosophical table

King George III

1761-1762

George III's Magdeburg hemispheres

King George III

1761

cylinder electrical machine, 1810-1817

Telecommunications

1810-1817

Demainbray's four wheeled wagon model

King George III

1751

Oval enamelled box, England, 1761-1820

Smoking

1761-1820