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40-hp open-drive limousine by Crossley Motors

Road Transport

1909

Marey sphygmograph and case

Clinical Diagnosis

1857-1870

Snow-type chloroform inhaler

Anaesthesiology

1848-1870

Holmes-type stereoscope

Photographic Technology

c. 1905

Operation punch cards for Analytical Engine

Computing & Data Processing

C. 1870

Edison 'Gem' phonograph, 1903.

Sound Reproduction

1903

Early telephone by Alexander Graham Bell, 1877.

Telecommunications

1877

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

Railway Models

1845

'Magic' marmalade cutter

Domestic Appliances

c. 1904

Hindu astrolabe

Astronomy

1870

The Ivel Agricultural Tractor

Agricultural Engineering

1902; 1913-1920

Poster for 'Pantomimes Lumineuses'

Cinematography

1892

Album of cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns

Photographs

1853

Model of a Jacquard loom

Textiles Machinery

1867

Page 16 from Romanov snapshot album no. 2

Photographs

1909

model London & South Western Railway steam locomotive

Railway Models

1903

Orrery planetary model

Astronomy

1851-1856

Anglo-American Arab Platen Printing Machine, 1842-1880

Printing & Writing

1842-1880

Daguerreotype of the Moon in leather case

Photographs

1851

Clockwork picture showing a tooth extraction, France, 1850-1909

Dentistry

1850-1909

scale with metal stand for Thompson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

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

Telecommunications

1857-1858

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

Telecommunications

1854

selector switch, 1903

Telecommunications

1903

Anatomical model of the spine

Anatomy & Pathology

1901

Clockwork interruptor, once owned by David Hughes, 1875-1880

Radio Communication

1875-1880

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

Telecommunications

1856

Crossley telephone receiver, 1880

Telecommunications

1880

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

Public Health & Hygiene

1873

Pioneers of Electric Telegraphy at the British Association

Telecommunications

1865

gutta-percha hearing aid, 1840-1910

Audiology

1840-1910

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

Telecommunications

1850

Steljes ABC type printing telegraph receiver

Telecommunications

1895-1910

Two lancets in a patterned silver case

Therapeutics

1844

Embossing telegraph receiver 1878-1900

Telecommunications

1878-1900

Wheatstone ABC telegraph receiver, 1942

Telecommunications

1842

Model vertical cylinder fire engine

Firefighting

c. 1885

polarized 'guillotine' relay, 1862-1866

Telecommunications

1862-1866

Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

Clockmakers

1851

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, English civil engineer, mid-19th century.

Railways

1860

Charles Robert Darwin

Photographs

1878

Original wheel or steel-disc coherer, 1902

Radio Communication

1902

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1854

Oil lamp base for Thomson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

Telecommunications

1858-03-02

Single-needle block instrument

Signalling & Telecommunications

1845

Branly tripod coherer, 1900-1910

Radio Communication

1900-1910

Bas-relief head and shoulders of Guglielmo Marconi, 1903

Radio Communication

1903

Sinclair line selector automatic switch board, 1880-1890

Telecommunications

1880-1890

Ring transformer, 1892

Telecommunications

1892