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Bell from Liverpool Road Station, Manchester

Liverpool & Manchester Railway

c. 1831

Millwright's measuring tool

Weighing & Measuring

around 1790

Jar: “Calcined Wad”

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Jar: “Indian Borax”

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Portrait bust of Chaucer

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Huskisson Memorial

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1831

Cloth tape measure

Hand and Machine Tools

1850-1860

Ink wells

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

Textile Industry

1850-1856

Cast iron Columbian printing press

Printing & Writing

c.1850

Schwann's microscope

Microscopes

1835

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

Textiles Machinery

1837

Plaster mould of head of Apollo

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Plaster cast, Venus

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Marble reproduction of bust

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1829

Half-penny coin

Textile Industry

1806

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

Telecommunications

1854

Plaster bust of boy, head missing

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Plaque showing the development of a human embryo

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1801-1830

Vaginal speculum

Clinical Diagnosis

1801-1850

Pair of Tongs

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

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

Archive

1850-1859

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

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

Marine Engines

1853-1857

scale with metal stand for Thompson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Theodolite used for the Principal Triangulation of Great Britain

Surveying

1791

Bullion box containing lead shot

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1855

Hack saw

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1834

Silver pill box, Birmingham, England, 1797

Wellcome (general)

1797

Dental forceps from set of blacksmith's dental instruments

Dentistry

1800-1850

Metal hand clutching a sprig of rue

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1800-1850

Cocked hat worn by French military surgeon

Surgery

1790-1831

Silver vinaigrette with hinged lid

Pharmacy-ware

1809

Four-part plaster leg, knee, shin and foot split mould

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Deck-watch used by Capt. William Parry during his attempt to reach the North Pole, 1827

Clockmakers

1823

Two lancets in a patterned silver case

Therapeutics

1844

Difference Engine No. 1

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1832

Paper packet, labelled 'Blue Stone'

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Folded paper packet labelled 'cochenilla'

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Ceramic jar with leather lid labelled "Red Lead"

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Pear shaped glass, curved tube from top, straight tube from bottom

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Cream ceramic jar labelled "Logwood"

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860

Telecommunications

1855-1860

Trevithick's model road locomotive engine

Road Transport

1796-1802

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

Telecommunications

1856

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

Telecommunications

1850