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Thomson's (Lord Kelvin) First Tide Predicting Machine, 1876

Geophysics

1876

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Bell transmitter with membrane diaphragm, 1875-1877

Telecommunications

1875-1877

Pair of Bell telephones, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

Clinical Diagnosis

1876

submarine cable laid across the River Medina, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

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

Microbiology

1875-1878

Early telephone by Alexander Graham Bell, 1877.

Telecommunications

1877

Charles Robert Darwin

Photographs

1878

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

Telecommunications

1876

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

Telecommunications

1878

Scarificator from cupping set

Therapeutics

1878

Glass bottle, part of cupping set

Therapeutics

1878

Catgut suture cord preserved in oil

Surgery

1875

Brass lamp, part of cupping set

Therapeutics

1878

model sykes lock and block signalling system

Railway Models

1875

Commemorative spade used to turn the first sod of

Civil Engineering

1878

Nested cupping glasses

Therapeutics

1878

Bronze ticket medal for admission and commemoratio

Wellcome Medals

1876

Wooden case for cupping set

Therapeutics

1878

Scarificator from cupping set

Therapeutics

1878

Wick, part of cupping set

Therapeutics

1878

Wrap reel/hank winder

Textile Industry

1877

Nested cupping glasses

Therapeutics

1878

Replica of Edison's first phonograph, 1877.

Sound Reproduction

1877
1875-1969, meteorological, aviation & surveying instrument manufacturer, London, England

Short and Mason Limited

1875 - 1969

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

European celestial globe

Astronomy

1878

Lithograph of Daniel Spills Ivorideworks by Daniel Greenaway, 1875

Art

1875

Kelvin's harmonic analyser

Mathematics

1878

Mounted photographs of the Sun

Astronomy

1876

Hofmann's lecture-room eudiometer (U tube on stand)

Experimental Chemistry

1876

Laussedat type camera lucida, two adjustable legs

Optics

1875
1878-1969, mathematical & scientific instrument maker, Manchester & London, England

J Halden and Company Limited

1878 - 1969

Le Praxinoscope

Cinematography

1877
Joule's original calorimeter ('paddle-wheel apparatus') used in determining the mechanical equivalent of heat. Copper mixing vessel with vane and spindle

mechanical equivalent of heat apparatus

Heat

1876

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE

Repeating Theodolite, Horizontal and vertical circles

Surveying

1875

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1875

Hofmann's apparatus for shewing the synthesis of w

Experimental Chemistry

1876

Thermometer screen, with a minimum alcohol thermometer

Meteorology

1875
Plate, ceramic, commemorating golden jubilee of the Stockton-Darlington Railway, September 27th 1875, manufactured by B. Wardle, Middlesbrough, black transfer on white depicting statue of Joseph Pease. Dimensions 8 1/2" diameter.

Commemorative plate, Stockton & Darlington Railway

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1875

True-course finder

Navigation

1876
American; birth control advocate; nurse

Sanger, Margaret

1878 - 1966

Seismochronograph designed by Arnold von Lasaulx, c. 1876

Geophysics

1876

'The Goblin Court', Royal Polytechnic Institution lantern slide

Cinematography

1875

Magic lantern slide showing scene from 'Alice's Adventures or The Queen of Hearts and the Stolen Tarts'

Cinematography

1876

Meidinger battery cell

Electricity and Magnetism

1876

Parallel rule, 6-inch, ivory and electrum (double

Mathematics

1876