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scale with metal stand for Thompson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Babbage's Analytical Engine, 1834-1871. (Trial model)

Computing & Data Processing

1871

Thomson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Rectal speculum

Clinical Diagnosis

1870-1890

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

Telecommunications

1850

Wine glass possibly used as a culture glass by Joseph Lister

Microbiology

1860-1877

three-nail microphone, 1875-1880

Telecommunications

1875-1880

Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

Telecommunications

1851

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

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

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

Telecommunications

1854

Le Prince Single-lens Cine Camera

Cinematography

1888

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

Telecommunications

1851

stock exchange automatic telegraph, 1872-1880

Telecommunications

1872-1880

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

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

Textiles Machinery

1837

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

Hyperbolic Paraboloid String Surface Model

Mathematics

1872

Conoid surface model

Mathematics

1872

Lancashire Loom

Textile Industry

c. 1880

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

Archive

1850-1859

submarine cable laid across the River Medina, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860

Telecommunications

1855-1860

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

Crossley telephone receiver, 1880

Telecommunications

1880

NER 0-6-0 '1001' class steam locomotive and tender, No 1275, 1874

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Pioneers of Electric Telegraphy at the British Association

Telecommunications

1865

Marey's Camera for phronophotography

Wellcome (general)

1882

Two dried plant specimens labelled anemone alpina

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1883

Dried specimen of prenanthes purpurea

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1883

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

Clinical Diagnosis

1876

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

Public Health & Hygiene

1873

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

Model of human eye

Anatomy & Pathology

1870

Two lancets in a patterned silver case

Therapeutics

1844

Schwann's microscope

Microscopes

1835

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

Electronic Components

1889

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

Electronic Components

1889

'The Horse in Motion'

Photographs

1882

Ottewill folding box camera

Photographic Technology

1853

Bullion box containing lead shot

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1855

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

Telecommunications

1856

Spark gap or knob coherer, 1889

Radio Communication

1889