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scale with metal stand for Thompson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

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

Ear trumpet made from shell

Audiology

1850-1900

Six lancets and a silver carrying case

Therapeutics

1750-1850

Netsuke depicting man with moxa on leg

Asian Medicine

1771-1800

Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

Telecommunications

1851

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

Mathematics

1815

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

Cloth tape measure

Hand and Machine Tools

1850-1860

Half-penny coin

Textile Industry

1806

Brake composite/observation saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

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

Embossing telegraph receiver 1878-1900

Telecommunications

1878-1900

Luke Howard's original rain guage

Meteorology

1818

Square signed "J.Ramsden, 1757"

Mathematics

1757

Print, 'Searching Fault' scene on 'Great Eastern' during the laying of the first Atlantic cable, 1865-1867

Telecommunications

1865-1867

Print, 'Interior Tanks', a scene on 'Great Eastern' during the laying of the first Atlantic cable, 1865-1867

Telecommunications

1865-1867

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

Lancashire Loom

Textile Industry

c. 1880

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

Textile Industry

c. 1900

Scale drawing of Nottingham Water Works Engine House, England, 1851-1860

Archive

1850-1859

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