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Pair of Bell telephones, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Wall telephone No. 1, 1900-1911

Telecommunications

1900-1911

Automatic telephone wall, 1900-1910

Telecommunications

1900-1910

Sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

Telecommunications

1857-1858

Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

Telecommunications

1851

Lens from prototype Cox selenium-cell magnifier equipment, 1910-1920

Telecommunications

1910-1920

Hobbs-type artificial left hand, Europe, 1918

Orthopaedics

1918

Cammann type binaural stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1845-1855

Oval dynamometer

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1840-1880

Brass scarificator

Therapeutics

1860-1875

Model of an intercepting trap drain, London, England, 1896

Sewerage & Sanitation

1896

Danchell-type water testing kit, England, 1867-1904

Public Health & Hygiene

1867-1904

Hospital ward letter box, England, 1870-1910

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1870-1910

Model toilet cross section

Domestic Appliances

1895

Four ivory charity collection tallies

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

1863-1880

Wine glass possibly used as a culture glass by Joseph Lister

Microbiology

1860-1877

Ceramic pot lid for cherry tooth paste

Dentistry

1870-1910

Public telephone sign

Telecommunications

c.1905

Crystal radio receiver

Radio Communication

c.1923

Teletype teleprinter, 1910-1924

Telecommunications

1910-1924

Guard's chronometer, Birmingham & Derby Junction Railway

Railway Timepieces

1834-1844

Clear glass specimen jar for turmeric root

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1880-1899

Divination bowl, known as "Adjelle Ifa"

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1915

locomotive worksplate

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1920

Imperial motor car

Road Transport

1904

Unopened packet of Diarrhoea draughts

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1849-1900

Guard's handlamp, Great Northern Railway - Royal Train No.1

Tools of the Trade & Personal Accessories

1870-1910
Two-stroke double-acting single cylinder gas engine, patented by Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir, France, 1860, and made by Reading Iron Works Limited, Reading, Berkshire, England, 1865. The first internal-combustion engine to be offered for sale, in 1860, Lenoir's engine was an ancestor of the engines in all road vehicles. The engine worked very like a simple double-acting steam-engine. At each stroke gas and air were drawn into the cylinder and fired by an electric spark; on the return stroke the burnt gases were flushed out. Several hundred of these engines were sold, and this one is a very rare survivor. It had been used to drive machinery in the workshop of the Patent Museum for about three years.

Lenoir's gas engine, 1860

Heat Engines (non steam)

1865

Anatomical model of a horse, c. 1850-1880.

Veterinary Medicine

1850-1880

Gower-Bell wall telephone

Telecommunications

c.1880

Pair of wooden roller skates, 1870-1890.

Road Transport

1870-1890

Dandy cart and horse

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1845-1855

Model of Robert Duncan's screw propeller, with stern frame and rudder, as fitted to the Egyptian government yacht 'Sareea

Marine Engines

1886-1887

Burndept mark IV tuner with glass back, 1922-1923

Radio Communication

1922-1923

Glassware from Carrel's apparatus for sterilizing wounds

Surgery

1914-1918

London & North Western Railway 1st class corridor brake no. 5154

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1906

Fabric bolt end

Textile Industry

c1900

Hangman's rope, England, 1870-1888

Wellcome (general)

1870-1888

Lister-type carbolic steam spray

Surgery

1869-1890

Flushing curette, Europe, 1871-1900

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1871-1900

Spirograph and examples of patterns drawn using it

Mathematics

1886

'Royal Address of Cadwallader ap-Tudor ap-Edwards ap-Vaughan, Water-King of Southwark', print, London, England, 1832

S Knight

1832

Nimbus, or rain cloud

Luke Howard

1849

Model of the PS 'Charlotte Dundas'

Marine Engines

1903

Painting of Sunspot by James Nasmyth, 1860

Josiah Crampton

1860

Cumulostratus forming; fine weather Cirri above

Luke Howard

1849

Marconi 1.5kW transmitter used by 2LO

Radio Communication

1922

Manufactured insulin, 'Iletin', United States, 1923

Therapeutics

1923

model London & South Western Railway steam locomotive

Railway Models

1903

Automatic tea-making machine

Domestic Appliances

1902-1910