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Highton's single needle telegraph, 1848.

1848

Pressure gauge

1837-1862

Cooke and Wheatstone's ABC telegraph transmitter

1840

Whole rigged model of the clipper ship 'Stonehouse'

1866 (original) 1871 (model); 1906 (rigging modified)

White brick from wall in Colchester, dated 1854

1854

Two magic lantern slides showing total solar eclipse

1860-1868

Replica of Roman steelyard, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914

Replica of arrow forceps

1850-1870

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Earthenware dish

2000-1350

Alabaster kohl pot

2000-1350

Glover's sector

1839-1850

Calf's Head Weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931

Solid bronze phallic amulet in form of priapus with hind legs and tail of horse

30-200

Parallel rule and protractor with index arm

1865-1875

Plaster replica of black Basalt Cubit Rod 531

1931; 250 BCE

Diamond balance

1877

Hoopers pocket letter weight

1840-1850

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

Isograph

1876

Stethoscope, England, 1834-1840

1834-1840

Bronze probe(?), twisted stem, Romano-Egyptian

20-500

Weir vaccination and lancet, cased, London, England, 1865-1875

1865-1875

Drilling machine for hand or power automatic feed

circa 1840

Plotting scale

1876

Plotting scale

1876

Plotting scale

1876

Radiometer used to illustrate Sir W. Crooke's research

1872-1879

Ready reckoner 'Prompt' calculator, 19th century.

circa 1863

Cast-Iron Gas Standard Lamp

1877

Cadboard used for unpointed woodscrews, 1850-1855

1850-1855

Model of ‘Blake’s “Hydram” hydraulic ram

1860-1880

Single-coil sine galvanometer

1840-1877

Electric clock of the Bain type

1840-1877

Decorated dish of prussian blue moulded Parksine (fake Parkesine)

1860-1868

Compensation Balance by Kullberg, 1860-1880

1860-1880

Model set of lenses, by Ladd, London, c.1872

1872

Bell Telephone

1878

Bell Telephone Receiver (c.1876)

1876

Tourmaline tongs (c.1860), two tourmalines mounted in cells on a wire holder

1860

Huyghens eyepiece by Ladd, London, c.1872

1872

Polariscope (c.1840-50)

1840-1850

Polariscope (c.1850)

1850

Radiometer used to illustrate Sir W. Crooke's research

1872-1879

Sikes' Hydrometer (c. 1860)

1860

Book, A W Hofmann - The Chemical Laboratories in Course of Erection in the Universities of Bonn and Berlin

1866

Oiliometer, 1870

1870

Volta type Eudiometer, English, 1861-1872

1861-1872