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three-nail microphone, 1875-1880

Telecommunications

1875-1880

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

Brake composite/observation saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

Felt and Tarrant Comptometer, 1887.

Mathematics

c. 1900

Great Western Railway locomotive headlamp

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1897

Le Prince Single-lens Cine Camera

Cinematography

1888

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Embossing telegraph receiver 1878-1900

Telecommunications

1878-1900

National Telephone Company directory, 1898-1899

Telecommunications

1898-1899

Lancashire Loom

Textile Industry

c. 1880

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

Textile Industry

c. 1900

submarine cable laid across the River Medina, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

X-ray tube

X-rays

1895-1899

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

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

Fowler's phrenological head

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1879-1896

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

Clinical Diagnosis

1876

Lenses from the Finsen lamp

Therapeutics

1890-1900

Model pipe with funnel top

Domestic Appliances

1895

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

borough market junction signal box

Signalling & Telecommunications

1895

Platt Brothers Notice

Textile Industry

1899

Hank Winding Machine

Textile Industry

1897

Spark gap or knob coherer, 1889

Radio Communication

1889

Experimental microphone, 1878-1890

Telecommunications

1878-1890

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

Radio Communication

1875-1880

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

Road Transport

1884

Steam locomotive, number 245

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

Steam locomotive, number 673

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

Midland Railway composite carriage

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1885

L&YR locomotive, number 1008

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1889

'Dancing (Fancy)'. Plate 187 from 'Animal Locomotion'

Cinematography

1887

Ring transformer, 1892

Telecommunications

1892

Rover 'Safety' bicycle, 1885

Road Transport

1885

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

Telecommunications

1878

Syntonic Leyden jars, 1880-1889

Radio Communication

1880-1889

Receiving ‘jigger’ used by the Marconi Company, 1898

Radio Communication

1898

Strowger step-by-step automatic telephone exchange switch, 1897-1898

Telecommunications

1897-1898

Sinclair line selector automatic switch board, 1880-1890

Telecommunications

1880-1890

Block instrument (lock and block)

Signalling & Telecommunications

1897

Foetal monaural stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1875-1885

Green tin of sulpho-chromic catgut ligatures

Surgery

1876-1900