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Nitrous oxide cylinder

Anaesthesiology

1840-1868

Paul F Gachet's door plate, France, 1870-1909

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1870-1909

Green tin of sulpho-chromic catgut ligatures

Surgery

1876-1900

Wine glass possibly used as a culture glass by Joseph Lister

Microbiology

1860-1877

Sinclair line selector automatic switch board, 1880-1890

Telecommunications

1880-1890

Ring transformer, 1892

Telecommunications

1892

paper tensile tester

Papermaking

c.1900

Crossley table telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Trademark printint block

Textile Industry

1880-1910

Sample of submarine cable laid between Dover and Calais, 1850

Telecommunications

1850

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

Telecommunications

1850

Calculating machine (arithmometer), Paris, France, 1880-1900

Mathematics

1880-1900

replica of Bell's 1876 'iron-box' receiver, 1959

Telecommunications

1876

Lamp cover for Thompson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

checked cloth sample

Textile Industry

1900

Magnetic key, 1850-1870

Telecommunications

1850-1870

Cot plaque from the Great Ormond Street Hospital

Nursing & Hospital Furnishings

1904

Device for recording warder patrols in a Lunatic Asylum

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1864-1897

Stroh's type-printer for Wheatstone ABC communicator, 1870-1881

Telecommunications

1870-1881

Circular unit of Finsen lamp

Therapeutics

1890-1900

Prosthetic arm, London, 1903-1913

Orthopaedics

c.1908

Display case of specimens of cinchona calisaya bark, England, 1850-1900

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1850-1900

Powdered graphite microphone, 1878-1890

Telecommunications

1878-1890

Model of toilet bowl section

Domestic Appliances

1895

Packet of 30 vaccination points for smallpox vaccination used at Blackfriars Station, London, England, 1873

Public Health & Hygiene

1873

Anthropomorphic iris root

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1891-1900

Richet-type forceps

Surgery

1851-1900

Ivory netsuke in the form of doctor and patient

Asian Medicine

1871-1900

Coherer, ebonite, with adjustable contacts, 1890-1896

Radio Communication

1890-1896

Wine glass possibly used as a culture glass by Joseph Lister

Microbiology

1860-1877

Morse key, 1850-1870.

Telecommunications

1850-1870

Vulcanite telephone wire insulators, 1850-1870

Telecommunications

1850-1870

Reis telephone receiver, 1863

Telecommunications

1863

Platt Brothers Notice

Textile Industry

1899

Thomson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Sample of transatlantic cable, 1865-66

Telecommunications

1865-1866

Casket presented to Francis William Webb

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1900

Great Western Railway locomotive headlamp

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1897

Plaster model of a human eye, France, 1884

Anatomy & Pathology

1884

Portrait of the Reverand Henry Nelthropp MA, FSA (1820 – 1901)

Clockmakers

1896

Fauvel laryngoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1871-1900

Strowger calling dial, 1906

Telecommunications

1906

Printing telegraph receiver, 1845-1851

Telecommunications

1845-1851

Self-flushing gutter pipe, England, 1850-1875

Public Health & Hygiene

1850-1875

Cell used in interruptor circuit, 1875-1890

Telecommunications

1875-1890

Granular microphone in bamboo tube, 1878-1890

Telecommunications

1878-1890

Experimental carbon block microphone, 1878-1890

Telecommunications

1878-1890

Compound monocular microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1870-1880

Moving magnet galvanometer with dial inscribed "Greenwich Mean Time", 1843-1897

Time Measurement

1843-1897

Model of a channel pipe, London, England, 1896

Sewerage & Sanitation

1896