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Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

Swan electric lamp

Lighting

1878-1879

Gower-Bell telephone, 1881

Telecommunications

1881

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

Electronic Components

1889

A steam hammer at work

James Hall Nasmyth

1871

Kodak No 1 Camera

Photographic Technology

c. 1891

Going North, King's Cross Station

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1893

Hank Winding Machine

Textile Industry

1897

Earthenware phrenological bust

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1860-1896

West Coast Joint Stock postal sorting van No 186, 1885

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1885

Iron borings coherer (Branly type), 1894

Radio Communication

1894

wall telephone using a Blake transmitter, 1880-1890

Telecommunications

1880-1890

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

Telecommunications

1857-1858

Hughes microphone detector, 1865-1875

Radio Communication

1865-1875

Brake van, London & South Western Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1894

Tower's handcuffs

Wellcome (general)

1882-1890

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

Lighting

1879

Chronophotographe double-use camera

Cinematography

1890

Decimal watch by Richard Dover Statter and Thomas Statter

Clockmakers

1862

Fowke's Bellows camera

Photographic Technology

1856

Treadle-operated 'Minerva' platen printing press

Printing & Writing

c.1870

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

Clinical Diagnosis

1876

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

Printing & Writing

1871

Singer 'New Family' sewing machine, 1865-1883.

Textiles Machinery

1865-1883

Model steam locomotive, spirit fired live steam 'dribbler' 3

Railway Models

1890

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

Cinematography

1888

Whitworth standard wire gauge

Industrial Metrology

1869 to 1897

Silver medal, commemorates the International Health Exhibition

Wellcome Medals

1884

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

Railways

1860

Model of a drain pipe, London, England, 1896

Sewerage & Sanitation

1896

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

Archive

1880-1890

Binocular stereoscopic camera

Photographic Technology

c.1856

Panhard Levassor 4hp motor car

Road Transport

1894-1895

English-built 'boneshaker' bicycle

Road Transport

1865-1870

Bullion box containing lead shot

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1855

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

Public Health & Hygiene

1873

Glass flask containing urine

Microbiology

1865-1877

Writing machine for blind people, United Kingdom, 1862

Printing & Writing

1862

Pioneers of Electric Telegraphy at the British Association

Telecommunications

1865

Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway

Passenger Comforts

1856

Penny Farthing Bicycle

Road Transport

1880-1890

Foetal monaural stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1875-1885

Geometrical Groin Vault, string surface model

Mathematics

1872

Packet of 39 vaccination points for smallpox vaccination used at Bristol Station, London, England, 1873

Public Health & Hygiene

1873

Powdered graphite microphone, 1878-1890

Telecommunications

1878-1890

Iron borings coherer (Branly type), 1894

Radio Communication

1894

Sixteen lens cine camera by Louis Le Prince

Cinematography

1886-1887

Chart of the Atlantic showing proposed couRse of the Atlantic Cable, 1856-1857

Telecommunications

1856-1857

Holmes' arc lamp from South Foreland Lighthouse, about 1860-80.

Lighting

1860-1880