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Cooke and Wheatstone's ABC telegraph transmitter

1840

Portion of original nitric acid battery

1839

Varley's lightning protector, 1856

1856

Wheatstone's original bridge

1843

Microscope Lamp

1845-1855

Silver ear trumpet hearing aid

1829

Photographic engraving print depicting ferns

circa 1852

Salt print of a Cuneiform clay tablet

1854

Jabez Hogg photographing Mr Johnson in Richard Beard's studio, c 1843

1840-1848

Photoglyphic engraving depicting lace

circa 1852

Draper's daguerreotype of Solar Spectrum

1842

Fern Leaf

1852

Steam locomotive, entitled Cornwall

1847

Queen Adelaide's Saloon, No. 2

1842

Model of a Viking Ship of about A.D.900, excavated from Gokstad

1913; circa 900 CE

Part of Electromagnet

1855

Part of Electromagnet

1855

Silver shilling coin

1856

Model of Henry Cavendish's Torsion Balance Gravitational Apparatus, 1798

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

6 inch altazimuth theodolite by W. & T. Gilbert

1840

Peltier Type Electrometer, 1848

1845

Gravity pendulum by Bailey, R.A.S. No.2

1834

Three brass screws from the Gravity pendulum by Bailey

1834

Wooden bracket from the Gravity pendulum by Bailey

1834

Box type pocket sextant.

1845-1850

Prismatic compass with bubble tube and small telescope, 1840-1863

1832-1840

Prismatic compass, 1851-1856

1851-1856

Double sounding quintant.

1835-1845

Box of microweights for rain gauge testing. 8 missing from set of 15

after 1851

Optical opposite, British, 1840-1850

1840-1850

Heliograph by Cary, c.1830

1830

Ronalds' Photobarometrograph, 1847

1847

Ronalds' rain and vapour gauge (evaporimeter) by Adie & Son

1843

Folding Prismatic Compass, 1846-52

1846-1852

Payne type pedometer, British, 1853

1853

Marine barometer by Ernst

1855

Circular plane table, English, 1852

1852

Ordinary mercury-in-glass thermometer in glazed wood case

1830

Fortin mountain barometer in brass case

1850

Barograph by Moritz Pillischer, 1850

1850

Marine barometer by A Pastorelli

1838-1849

Spirit thermometer by Pastorelli

1849

Actinometer by Thomas Charles Robinson, 1840.

1840

Surveyor's compass (circumferentor)

1836-1856

Electrical recording mercury-in-glass weather balloon thermometer, 1843

1843

Aneroid Barometer, 1848

1848

Mountain barometer by Newman

1830-1839

Standard maximum thermometer by Negretti and Zambra

1852

Standard mercury thermometer, by Ronketti, 1846

1846

Psychrometer by John Braham, Bristol, 1828-1838

1828-1838