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Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

Telecommunications

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

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

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

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

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

Smoking

1832

Original preparation of quinine

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1820

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

Lead weight marked 'Reid' from the first cross-Channel telegraph cable, 1850.

Telecommunications

1850

Grand Junction Railway locomotive 'Columbine'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1845

Sample of submarine cable laid between Dover and Calais, 1850

Telecommunications

1850

Copy of Chamberlen obstetric forceps

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1813

Phrenological head, microcephalic

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1820-1830

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

Photographic Technology

1839 (original); c. 1988 (replica)

Original preparation of quinine acetate

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1810-1840

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

Industrial Metrology

c. 1848

Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph

Telecommunications

1837

Whitworth Planing Machine

Hand and Machine Tools

c.1842

Compound microscope used by Joseph Jackson Lister

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1830-1850

Joseph Jackson Lister's microscope, London, England, 1826

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1826

Part of electrostatic telegraph, 1816

Telecommunications

1816

Epergne presented to Robert Stephenson

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1839

Phrenological head of Francis Gall

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1823

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

Road Transport

1838