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Wheatstone automatic tape transmitter, 1840-1860

1840-1860

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

1837

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

A.B.C. telegraph transmitter, 1835-1845

1835-1845

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

1851

Wax portrait of George Atkins (1766 – 1855) by Richard Cockle Lucas

1852

Deck watch by Breguet et Fils

1830

Table chronometer in a gilt-metal and glazed case by Victor Kullburg

1870-1877

Gold watch with tourbillon by Girard Perregaux

1879

Marine chronometer by E. Barthet, found on an abandoned ship

1840

Silver kettle presented to Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

1849

Enamel watch depicting the Virgin and Child

1880

Pair of obstetrical forceps

1831-1870

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Early binaural stethoscope

1861-1866

Compound monocular microscope

1870-1880

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

1864

Foetal monaural stethoscope

1875-1885

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

1876

Enema syringe

1831-1870

Marey sphygmograph and case

1857-1870

Silver lancet case, empty

1833

Tortoiseshell lancet case

1831-1870

Display case of specimens of cinchona micrantha bark

1838-1870

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Gordon universal type dental forceps

1835-1870

Wine glass possibly used as a culture glass by Joseph Lister

1860-1877

Wine glass possibly used as a culture glass by Joseph Lister

1860-1877

Wine glass possibly used as a culture glass by Joseph Lister

1860-1877

Catgut suture

1875

Wine glass

1860-1880

Large cast iron cam from Pollard Street archaeological excavations of Peel, Williams & Peel Co. Soho foundry

1839-1887

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Charles Green Aeronaut

1836

Wise's Patent Train Staff

1886

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

Specimen of First Telegraph Line, 1837

1837

Model steam locomotive, North Eastern Railway

1884

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Model steam locomotive

1882

Slamannan Railway commemorative plaque

1840

Decorated keystone from South Stockton arch, Thornaby station

1842

Mantel clock, presented to T.W. Worsdell - Great Eastern Railway

circa 1885

Stirling single locomotive wheel casting pattern, Great Northern Railway

1870

Model ground signal, North London Railway

1888

London & South Western Railway Shark 2-4-0

circa 1868

London & Birmingham Railway Guard's Clock, 1837-1839

1838

Single-needle block instrument

1845