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Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Swan electric lamp

Lighting

1878-1879

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Pair of Bell telephones, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1880

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

Lighting

1879

Lancashire Loom

Textile Industry

c. 1880

Gower-Bell telephone, 1881

Telecommunications

1881
1881-1955, bacteriologist; discoverer of penicillin, British

Fleming, Sir Alexander

1881 - 1955

Crossley telephone receiver, 1880

Telecommunications

1880

Edison telephone peg switchboard and pegs, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Crossley table telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Engraving: Watt's first experiment

Art

1879

Astatic mirror galvanometer, (no. 166), by Elliott

Electricity and Magnetism

1880

submarine cable laid across the River Medina, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Jones 50-line switchboard, 1879.

Telecommunications

1879

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

Telecommunications

1878

Commemorative spade used to turn the first sod of

Civil Engineering

1878

Glass bottle, part of cupping set

Therapeutics

1878

Wick, part of cupping set

Therapeutics

1878

Tailboard, North Eastern Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1880

Scarificator from cupping set

Therapeutics

1878

Nested cupping glasses

Therapeutics

1878

Wood-working brace drill, with button-operated latch chuck, 1875-1885

Hand and Machine Tools

c. 1880

Rotative Compound Beam Engine, 1881

Pumping Machinery

1881 (original)

Water from the River Jordan

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1881

Wooden case for cupping set

Therapeutics

1878

Scarificator from cupping set

Therapeutics

1878

Bezel wind wrist watch, c.1880

Time Measurement

c. 1880

Child's Ordinary bicycle (c. 1880)

Road Transport

c.1880

Lawson 'Bicyclette', 1879

Road Transport

1879

Nested cupping glasses

Therapeutics

1878

Brass lamp, part of cupping set

Therapeutics

1878
1879-current (2020), manufacturer of surgical instruments, London, England

Downs Surgical Limited

1879
1880-1995, laboratory equipment manufacturer (chemistry, physics), London, England

A Gallenkamp and Company Limited

1880 - 1995

European celestial globe

Astronomy

1878

Incandescent electric lamp with 'candlestick' cap

Lighting

1879

One Penny Postage and Inland Revenue Stamps

Art

1881
American; birth control advocate; nurse

Sanger, Margaret

1878 - 1966

Very early Edison carbon filament lamp.

Lighting

1879

W. H. Bailey Hot-Air Engine

Motive Power

1880
Walking stick, made from telegraph wires which passed over the old Tay Bridge before the Disaster of 1879, made by John McKay a labourer of Tayport Harbour, (broken).

Walking stick made from telegraph wires from Tay Bridge

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1879

Kelvin's harmonic analyser

Mathematics

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

J Halden and Company Limited

1878 - 1969

'Silvertown Set' telephone with Blake transmitter, 1879-1890

Telecommunications

1879-1880

Wax death mask of Benjamin Disraeli, England, 1881

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1881

Portable chemistry set

Experimental Chemistry

1880
Locomotive Worksplate, Fox Walker & Co (Bristol) No. 410, ex works November 1878, 0-6-0 saddle tank locomotive inside cylinder, new to North Pembrokeshire & Fishguard Railway "Margaret", to Great Western Railway February 1898 No. 1378, sold to Gwendraeth Valley Railway as No. 2 in 1910, to Kidwelly Tinplate Co. Ltd in 1923, out of use from 1941, now preserved at Scolton Manor Museum, near Haverfordwest.

fox walker & co worksplate

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1878