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scale with metal stand for Thompson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Thomson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

three-nail microphone, 1875-1880

Telecommunications

1875-1880

Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

Telecommunications

1851

Coherer with coarse brass turnings, 1894

Radio Communication

1894

Filings coherer, glass tube formed into T-shape at one end and bent round into U-shape at other end with bulb, 1899

Radio Communication

1899

Braiding Machine

Textile Industry

c.1900

Platt Brothers Notice

Textile Industry

1899

Lancashire Loom

Textile Industry

c. 1880

Brake composite/observation saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

Hank Winding Machine

Textile Industry

1897

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

Textile Industry

c. 1900

Bullion box containing lead shot

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1855

Felt and Tarrant Comptometer, 1887.

Mathematics

c. 1900

Great Western Railway locomotive headlamp

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1897

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

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

Conoid surface model

Mathematics

1872

Hyperbolic Paraboloid String Surface Model

Mathematics

1872

borough market junction signal box

Signalling & Telecommunications

1895

National Telephone Company directory, 1898-1899

Telecommunications

1898-1899

submarine cable laid across the River Medina, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860

Telecommunications

1855-1860

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

Telecommunications

1856

Pioneers of Electric Telegraphy at the British Association

Telecommunications

1865

Green glass Woulfe bottle, Europe, 1851-1900

Laboratory Medicine

1851-1900

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

Wall telephone with Blake transmitter, 1880-1900

Telecommunications

1880-1900

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

X-ray tube

X-rays

1895-1899

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

Embossing telegraph receiver 1878-1900

Telecommunications

1878-1900

Spark gap or knob coherer, 1889

Radio Communication

1889

polarized 'guillotine' relay, 1862-1866

Telecommunications

1862-1866

Experimental microphone, 1878-1890

Telecommunications

1878-1890

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

Radio Communication

1875-1880

Early submarine cables and grapnel, 1858-1866.

Telecommunications

1858-1866

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870