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Strowger step-by-step automatic telephone exchange switch, 1897-1898

Telecommunications

1897-1898

Great Northern Railway brake van

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1887

Circular metal pendant

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1850-1920

Gecophone crystal detector radio set no. 1, 1923

Radio Communication

1923

Wooden figure of pregnant female

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1920

ceramic tile map of north eastern railway

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1900, about

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

Quarter-plate `Cameo' camera used to take 'second phase' of Cottingley Fairies photographs, 1918-1920

Photographs

1915-1920

'City of Truro' Steam locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1903

Steam locomotive, named Lode Star, Great Western Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1907

Thomson's Mirror Marine Galvanometer, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Green glass Woulfe bottle, Europe, 1851-1900

Laboratory Medicine

1851-1900

Great Northern Railway, locomotive 251

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1902

Cloth tape measure

Hand and Machine Tools

1850-1860

Jacquard hand loom

Textile Industry

c. 1910

Gas mask, Germany, 1915-1918

Public Health & Hygiene

1915-1918

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

Midland Railway locomotive number 1000

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1902

Photograph of the Great Nebula in Orion, 1883

Astronomy

1883

Rorschach Inkblot Test, Bern Switzerland, 1942

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1921

Hangman's rope, England, 1870-1888

Wellcome (general)

1870-1888

Left prosthetic leg, Cyprus, 1914-1918

Orthopaedics

1914-1918

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

Copper plaque stamped with a Latin cross for protection against cholera

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1900-1909

Medical kit used by Ernest Shackleton

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1907

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

Marine Engines

1853-1857

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

Lighting

1879

Principal varieties of mankind', 3 May 1850.

James Reynolds

1850

'Openshaw' artificial wooden hand

Orthopaedics

c.1919

A steam hammer at work

James Hall Nasmyth

1871

Bell transmitter with membrane diaphragm, 1875-1877

Telecommunications

1875-1877

Miniature terrestrial globe by J. Manning. Late 19

Astronomy

1850-1860

Going North, King's Cross Station

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1893

Electric motor used by James J

Scientific Instruments & Research

1860

Telephone receivers with wooden handles, 1877-1902

Telecommunications

1877-1902

Kodak No 1 Camera

Photographic Technology

c. 1891

Silver thimble, used to pass a current through the 1866 Transatlantic cable, 1860-1866

Telecommunications

1860-1866

Fowler's phrenological head

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1879-1896

Double duck-billed speculum

Clinical Diagnosis

1871-1900

Chronophotographe double-use camera

Cinematography

1890

'Pock-marked faces: A curious illusion', anti-vaccination leaflet

Archive

1880-1890

Great Northern Railway locomotive Stirling Single

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1870

Hand held electric vibrator, English, dated 1909

Therapeutics

1909

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

Telecommunications

1850

Maxim's 'Pipe of Peace', 1909-1910

Therapeutics

1909-1910

'Midg' Camera Used to Make the First Two `Cottingley fairies' Photographs in 1917

Photographic Technology

1902-1917

Jugum penises, United Kingdom, 1880-1920

Therapeutics

1880-1920

Binocular stereoscopic camera

Photographic Technology

c.1856