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

Geophysics

1876

Bell transmitter with membrane diaphragm, 1875-1877

Telecommunications

1875-1877

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

Clinical Diagnosis

1876

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

Telecommunications

1876

Pair of Bell telephones, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

submarine cable laid across the River Medina, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

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

Telecommunications

1878

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

Microbiology

1875-1878

Wick, part of cupping set

Therapeutics

1878

Glass bottle, part of cupping set

Therapeutics

1878
1875-1969, meteorological, aviation & surveying instrument manufacturer, London, England

Short and Mason Limited

1875 - 1969

Commemorative spade used to turn the first sod of

Civil Engineering

1878

Nested cupping glasses

Therapeutics

1878

Scarificator from cupping set

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

Catgut suture cord preserved in oil

Surgery

1875

Wrap reel/hank winder

Textile Industry

1877

Nested cupping glasses

Therapeutics

1878

Brass lamp, part of cupping set

Therapeutics

1878

Replica of Edison's first phonograph, 1877.

Sound Reproduction

1877

model sykes lock and block signalling system

Railway Models

1875

Lithograph of Daniel Spills Ivorideworks by Daniel Greenaway, 1875

Art

1875
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

Early telephone by Alexander Graham Bell, 1877.

Telecommunications

1877

Le Praxinoscope

Cinematography

1877

European celestial globe

Astronomy

1878

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1875

Kelvin's harmonic analyser

Mathematics

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

J Halden and Company Limited

1878 - 1969
American; birth control advocate; nurse

Sanger, Margaret

1878 - 1966
Bridge notice, Midland Railway, signed James Williams, 1875, white letters on red

Notice, Midland Railway

Railway Infrastructure

1875

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

Cinematography

1876

Mummy of a crocodile, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Frederick Leighton

Photographs

1877

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE

Seismochronograph designed by Arnold von Lasaulx, c. 1876

Geophysics

1876

Brass Burstow's patent Ellipsograph by W.F.Stanley

Mathematics

1876

John Scott Russell

Photographs

1878

Anthony Trollope

Photographs

1878
Model (scale 1:8) of an American locomotive with tender. This is said to represent a locomotive built for the Erie RR in about 1875 and was made by by William R. Lendrum, a machinist in the railway workshops of the Delaware Lackawanna & Western RR in Scranton, Pennsylvania. The tintype photograph on the clack-box is thought to be of Ledrum: the photo on the smokebox is of Ulysses S. Grant, US President 1869-1877.

Scale Model of an American locomotive with tender

Railways

c. 1875

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

Cinematography

1876

'The Goblin Court', Royal Polytechnic Institution lantern slide

Cinematography

1875

Molecular models

Experimental Chemistry

c. 1875

Professor Fawcett

Photographs

1876

Leather cigar case, containing 3 Havana cigars, pr

Smoking

1877