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three-nail microphone, 1875-1880

Telecommunications

1875-1880

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

Water Supply Metering

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

stock exchange automatic telegraph, 1872-1880

Telecommunications

1872-1880

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

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Lancashire Loom

Textile Industry

c. 1880

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Hyperbolic Paraboloid String Surface Model

Mathematics

1872

Conoid surface model

Mathematics

1872

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

Clinical Diagnosis

1876

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

submarine cable laid across the River Medina, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Pioneers of Electric Telegraphy at the British Association

Telecommunications

1865

Crossley telephone receiver, 1880

Telecommunications

1880

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

Radio Communication

1875-1880

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

Model of human eye

Anatomy & Pathology

1870

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

Public Health & Hygiene

1873

The Atlantic Telegraph, broadsheet, 1866

Telecommunications

1866

Geometrical Groin Vault, string surface model

Mathematics

1872

Copy of the receiver and alarm call of Schilling's electric telegraph, 1870-1877

Telecommunications

1870-1877

Edison telephone peg switchboard and pegs, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Babbage's Analytical Engine, 1834-1871. (Trial model)

Computing & Data Processing

1871

Submarine cable laid across the River Medina, Isle of Wight, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Gooch centrepiece, 1872

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1872

Trial model and spare wheels for Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine

Computing & Data Processing

c. 1870

Packet of 50 vaccination points for smallpox vaccination used at Liverpool Station, London, England, 1873

Public Health & Hygiene

1873

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Print, 'Large Buoy' scene on 'Great Eastern' during the laying of the first Atlantic cable, 1865-1867

Telecommunications

1865-1867

Print, 'Launching Buoy' scene on "Great Eastern" during the laying of the first Atlantic cable, 1865-1867

Telecommunications

1865-1867

Steam locomotive, 'Beattie Well Tank'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1873

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

Telecommunications

1876

Crossley table telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Operation punch cards for Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, nos. 22-29

Computing & Data Processing

C. 1870

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

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

Public Health & Hygiene

1873

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

Public Health & Hygiene

1873

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1880

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

Lighting

1879

Sample of transatlantic cable, 1865-66

Telecommunications

1865-1866

Croll Testimonial silver gilt fountain, Parcel-gilt Victorian silver rosewater fountain designed as a table centrepiece

Temporary Exhibitions

1870

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

Telecommunications

1867

Pair of Bell telephones, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Variable punch cards for Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, nos. 1-118

Computing & Data Processing

C. 1870

Compound monocular microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1870-1880

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Packet of 39 vaccination points for smallpox vaccination used at Tottenham Court Chapel Station, London, England, 1873

Public Health & Hygiene

1873

Great Northern Railway locomotive Stirling Single

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1870