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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

Silver vinaigrette with hinged lid

Pharmacy-ware

1809

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

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

Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

Textile Industry

1850-1856

Luke Howard's original rain guage

Meteorology

1818

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

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

Archive

1850-1859

Schwann's microscope

Microscopes

1835

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

Telecommunications

1854

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

Hyperbolic Paraboloid String Surface Model

Mathematics

1872

Conoid surface model

Mathematics

1872

Two lancets in a patterned silver case

Therapeutics

1844

Ottewill folding box camera

Photographic Technology

1853

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860

Telecommunications

1855-1860

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

Telecommunications

1856

Pioneers of Electric Telegraphy at the British Association

Telecommunications

1865

Silver thimble, used to pass a current through the 1866 Transatlantic cable, 1860-1866

Telecommunications

1860-1866

Writing machine for blind people, United Kingdom, 1862

Printing & Writing

1862

Silk skirt and blouse dyed with Perkin's Mauve Aniline Dye

Industrial Chemistry

1862-1863

Plaque showing the development of a human embryo

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1801-1830

Packet of 36 vaccination points for smallpox vaccination used at Pimlico Station, London, England, 1873

Public Health & Hygiene

1873

Vaginal speculum

Clinical Diagnosis

1801-1850

Visitor staff from London hospital

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

1801-1870

Huskisson Memorial

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1831

Bullion box containing lead shot

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1855

polarized 'guillotine' relay, 1862-1866

Telecommunications

1862-1866

Daniell cell used by Edward Davy, 1836-1839

Telecommunications

1836-1839

section of first telegraph cable, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

Early submarine cables and grapnel, 1858-1866.

Telecommunications

1858-1866

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

Wheatstone ABC telegraph receiver, 1942

Telecommunications

1842