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Hank Winding Machine

Textile Industry

1897

scale with metal stand for Thompson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Braiding Machine

Textile Industry

circa 1900

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

Froude

1867

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Bullion box containing lead shot

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1855

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

Lancashire Loom

Textile Industry

circa 1880

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

Telecommunications

1851

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

Telecommunications

1857-1858

Felt and Tarrant Comptometer, 1887.

Mathematics

circa 1900

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

Marine Engines

1853-1857

bridge plaque - 1855

Railway Infrastructure

1855

Great Western Railway locomotive headlamp

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1897

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

stock exchange automatic telegraph, 1872-1880

Telecommunications

1872-1880

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

Telecommunications

1854

Embossing telegraph receiver 1878-1900

Telecommunications

1878-1900

Brake composite/observation saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

Textile Industry

circa 1900

Platt Brothers Notice

Textile Industry

1899

Saw bench

Hand and Machine Tools

1879

National Telephone Company directory, 1898-1899

Telecommunications

1898-1899

Glass flask containing urine

Microbiology

1865-1877

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

Printing & Writing

1886

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

Compound monocular microscope owned by Edwin Lankester

Public Health & Hygiene

1852

London Dome ear trumpet

Audiology

1869-1900

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

Clinical Diagnosis

1876

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

Electronic Components

1889

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

Electronic Components

1889

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

Railways

1860

polarized 'guillotine' relay, 1862-1866

Telecommunications

1862-1866

Experimental microphone, 1878-1890

Telecommunications

1878-1890

Early submarine cables and grapnel, 1858-1866.

Telecommunications

1858-1866

Model vertical cylinder fire engine

Firefighting

circa 1885

Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

Clockmakers

1851

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

Model of human eye

Anatomy & Pathology

1870

Brake van, London & South Western Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1894

Bronze bust of William Stuart

Railway Infrastructure

1855

Water pipe from Water Street, Manchester

Water Supply & Sanitation

1890-1899

Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860

Telecommunications

1855-1860

Crossley telephone receiver, 1880

Telecommunications

1880

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

Radio Communication

1875-1880

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

Telecommunications

1860-1866

Sunglasses with dark blue lenses

Ophthalmology

1860-1900

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

Telecommunications

1856

submarine cable laid across the River Medina, 1878

Telecommunications

1878