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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

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

Metal hand clutching a sprig of rue

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1800-1850

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)

printing block

Textile Industry

c.1840

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

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

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

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

George III's compound engine

King George III

1762

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

Textiles Machinery

1837

Model of human eye

Anatomy & Pathology

1870

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

Demainbray's Irish low-backed cart model

King George III

1735-1754.

Hyperbolic Paraboloid String Surface Model

Mathematics

1872

Conoid surface model

Mathematics

1872

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

Surveying

1791

Section of lightning conductor from St Paul’s cathedral

Geophysics

1769

Refracting telescope with achromatic lens, made by the Dollond family

Optics

1760-1775