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Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

Telecommunications

1850

Metal hand clutching a sprig of rue

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1800-1850

Silver vinaigrette with hinged lid

Pharmacy-ware

1809

Dental impression tray

Dentistry

1830-1850

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

Mathematics

1815

printing block

Textile Industry

c.1840

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

Huskisson Memorial

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1831

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Schwann's microscope

Microscopes

1835

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

Textiles Machinery

1837

Portion of the first submarine cable between Dover and Calais, 1850

Telecommunications

1850

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

Surveying

1791

Plaque showing the development of a human embryo

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1801-1830

Vaginal speculum

Clinical Diagnosis

1801-1850

Daniell cell used by Edward Davy, 1836-1839

Telecommunications

1836-1839

section of first telegraph cable, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

Wheatstone ABC telegraph receiver, 1942

Telecommunications

1842

Two lancets in a patterned silver case

Therapeutics

1844

Trevithick's model road locomotive engine

Road Transport

1796-1802

Silver pill box, Birmingham, England, 1797

Wellcome (general)

1797

Cocked hat worn by French military surgeon

Surgery

1790-1831

Dental forceps from set of blacksmith's dental instruments

Dentistry

1800-1850

Half-penny coin

Textile Industry

1799

Water frame spindle

Textile Industry

1800-1830

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

Printing & Writing

1780-1800

cylinder electrical machine, 1810-1817

Telecommunications

1810-1817

'Puffing Billy' locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1813-1814

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1846

Single-needle block instrument

Signalling & Telecommunications

1845

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

Silver snuff boxes, United Kingdom, presented in 1832 and 1850

Smoking

1832

Original preparation of quinine

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1820

Wax plaque showing a dissected female figure

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1801-1830

Wax plaque showing a dissected female figure

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1801-1830

Wax plaque showing a dissected female figure

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1801-1830

Cooke and Wheatstone's ABC telegraph transmitter

Telecommunications

1840

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

Telecommunications

1850

pot for Daniell cell used by Edward Davy, 1836-1839

Telecommunications

1836-1839

Stephenson's Rocket

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Insulators used for Morse's telegraph, 1835

Telecommunications

1835

Queen Adelaide's Saloon, NO. 2

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1842

Cooke and Wheatstone’s double-needle telegraph, 1838

Telecommunications

1838

Davy Safety lamp

Mining & Ore Dressing

before 1815

Phrenological head

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1821