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Saw bench

Hand and Machine Tools

1879

Lancashire Loom

Textile Industry

c. 1880

Crossley telephone receiver, 1880

Telecommunications

1880

Edison telephone peg switchboard and pegs, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Crossley table telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1880

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Gladstone

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1882

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

Lighting

1879

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Jones 50-line switchboard, 1879.

Telecommunications

1879

Tailboard, North Eastern Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1880

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

Hand and Machine Tools

c. 1880

Water from the River Jordan

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1881

Gower-Bell wall telephone

Telecommunications

c.1880

Bezel wind wrist watch, c.1880

Time Measurement

c. 1880

Magneto wall telephone

Telecommunications

c1880

Telegraph transmitter

Telecommunications

c.1880

Child's Ordinary bicycle (c. 1880)

Road Transport

c.1880

telephone transmitter

Telecommunications

c.1880

telephone transmitter

Telecommunications

c.1880

Engraving: Watt's first experiment

Art

1879

Specimens illustrating the unintentional welding t

Metallurgy

before 1880

Very early Edison carbon filament lamp.

Lighting

1879

Inside the Entrenchments

Photographs

1882-12-06

Dead donkey inside entrenchments at Tel-el-Kebir

Photographs

1882-12-06

Marey's Camera for Chronophotography

Wellcome (general)

1882

Rackwork polarising magic lantern slide

Cinematography

c. 1880

'The Horse in Motion'

Photographs

1882

Professor Huxley

Photographs

1880

William Powell Frith

Photographs

1880

Wax death mask of Benjamin Disraeli, England, 1881

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1881

Tri-unial magic lantern

Photographic Technology

1880

Sir Phillip Cunliffe Owen

Photographs

1880

Uterine probe, Playfair, aluminium

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1901-950

Photograph of gibbous Moon

Astronomy

1880

Fort Ada, Alexandria

Photographs

1882-11-12

Magic lantern slide: Lion

Cinematography

1880

Whitworth Lathe No. 626

Hand and Machine Tools

1880
Gower-Bell telephone transmitter, Post Office pattern with porcelain mouthpiece, made by Scott and Wollaston, England, 1881

Gower-Bell telephone transmitter, 1881

Telecommunications

1881

Portable chemistry set

Experimental Chemistry

1880

Hall typewriter in portable walnut case, 1881

Printing & Writing

1881

Stone slab with seven holes for cosmetic ointments, Egypt, 1991-1786 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1991-1786 BCE

Mummy of a crocodile, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE
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

Henry M Stanley

Photographs

1880

Gower-Bell pattern carbon-rod microphone, mounted on thin plywood sheet, 1881

Telecommunications

1881

Underground oil-filled telegraph cable system, 1880

Telecommunications

1880

Antiseptic machine, England, 1879

Surgery

1879

Square pavement brick from Babylonia (Southern Iraq), 2nd millennium BC.

Building Construction

2000-1001 BCE

Fellaheen Boy on Bison

Photographs

1882-12