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Rover 'Safety' bicycle, 1885

Road Transport

1885

Bell transmitter with membrane diaphragm, 1875-1877

Telecommunications

1875-1877

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Gladstone

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1882

Midland Railway composite carriage

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1885

Steam locomotive, 'Beattie Well Tank'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1880

Jones 50-line switchboard, 1879.

Telecommunications

1879

Swan electric lamp

Lighting

1878-1879

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

Lighting

1879

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

Road Transport

1884

Pair of Bell telephones, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Parsons' steam turbine generator, 1884.

Motive Power

1884

Lancashire Loom

Textile Industry

c. 1880

West Coast Joint Stock postal sorting van No 186, 1885

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1885

Ear trumpet and walking stick combined

Audiology

1875-1885

Silver medal, commemorates the International Health Exhibition

Wellcome Medals

1884

Curved bottom polishing iron, c.1880

Domestic Appliances

1880

Foetal monaural stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1875-1885

Decorated pedestal water closets 'The New Humber'

Domestic Appliances

1875-1885

Lowdown Suite W.C. pedestal and tank

Domestic Appliances

1882

model sykes lock and block signalling system

Railway Models

1875

Chamberland filter, France, 1875-1884

Microbiology

1875-1884

Water from the River Jordan

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1881

Gower-Bell telephone, 1881

Telecommunications

1881

The original Wimshurst electrostatic machine.

Electricity and Magnetism

1882

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

Clinical Diagnosis

1876

Edison telephone peg switchboard and pegs, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Crossley table telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Plaster model of a human eye, France, 1884

Anatomy & Pathology

1884

Endoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1875-1885

Set of six test tubes with stand, used by Joseph Lister

Microbiology

1875-1878

Foucault Pendulum for demonstrating the Earth's rotation, 1883

Astronomy

1883

Child's Ordinary bicycle (c. 1880)

Road Transport

c.1880

Kelvin's harmonic analyser

Mathematics

1878

Photograph of the Great Nebula in Orion, 1883

Astronomy

1883

Saw bench

Hand and Machine Tools

1879

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Model vertical cylinder fire engine

Firefighting

c. 1885

submarine cable laid across the River Medina, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Crossley telephone receiver, 1880

Telecommunications

1880

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

Radio Communication

1875-1880

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

Telecommunications

1876

wooden base for submarine cable laid across the River Medina, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Telephone transmitter with induction coil

Telecommunications

c.1885

Scarificator from cupping set

Therapeutics

1878

Catgut suture cord preserved in oil

Surgery

1875

The Tissandier 'La France' airship, 1883.

Aeronautics

1883