Lead weight marked 'Reid' from the first cross-Channel telegraph cable, 1850.
1850
Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851
1851
Filings coherer, glass tube bent at 45-degree angle at one end to form side-pocket, 1898
1898
Coherer, with steel needle inside part-wound with copper wire, 1894-1904
1894-1904
Iron borings coherer (Branly type), 1894
1894
Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877
1870-1877
Portrait bust of Lord Kelvin, 1896
1896
Coherer, with several needles, 1894-1904
1894-1904
Original wheel or steel-disc coherer, 1902
1902
Spark gap or knob coherer, 1889
1889
Gold lever watch by George Blackie
1873
Watch by Sir John Bennett
1884
Chronometer escapement in domed glazed case by William T. Heyes
1903
Watch made for the 1851 Great Exhibition by Alexander Watkins
1851
Watch with complications and minute repeating by Samuel Smith & Son
1899
Holmes' arc lamp from South Foreland Lighthouse, about 1860-80.
1860-1880
Pendant in form of plastic model of "Heinz" gherkin
1885-1895
Ear trumpet and walking stick combined
1875-1885
Beale-type microscope
1871-1900
Cast iron hospital bed
1851-1900
Ceramic pot lid for Beddard's Belgravia tooth paste
1860-1900
Four ivory charity collection tallies
1863-1880
Rabbit's foot amulet
1860-1905
Tongue depressor
1851-1900
Ear trumpet hearing aid
1869-1900
Cot plaque from the Great Ormond Street Hospital
1904
Plaque for cot, Great Ormond Street Hospital
1900
Statue depicting Florence Nightingale
1851-1900
Ear trumpet
1850-1900
Double duck-billed speculum
1871-1900
Pasteur-Chamberland-type water filter
1884-1900
Chicle gum in specimen jar
1850-1900
Therapeutic Exercise Chair, Wiesbaden, Germany, 1901-1905
1901-1905
Sunglasses with dark blue lenses
1860-1900
Artificial arm, below-elbow prosthesis
1895-1904
Composition pestle and mortar
1870-1901
Fowler's phrenological head
1879-1896
Packet of pure quinine powder
1890-1900
Craniometer, stainless steel
1874-1902
Time register for recording asylum warder patrols
1870-1899
Straight spectacles with folding lenses
1851-1900
Electric hairbrush
1896-1900
Wine glass used by Joseph Lister as a culture glass
1860-1880
Set of six test tubes with stand, used by Joseph Lister
1875-1878
Glass flask containing urine
1865-1877
Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister
1866-1870
Green tin of sulpho-chromic catgut ligatures
1876-1900
Artificial leg made for a child, England, 1903
1903
Lenses from the Finsen lamp
1890-1900
Circular unit of Finsen lamp
1890-1900