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Place of origin
Date

Saffron Walden Railway

Glass bell jar with a brass collar

1761

George III's glass sphere

1761

Hughes microphone detector, 1865-1875

1865-1875

Chadwick's neutron detector

1932

Unipivot galvanometer

Spiral fulminating tube

Glass bowl on whirling stand

1734-1795

Joule's Electro-Magnet (Calorimeter) Apparatus, 1843

1843

Two glass tubes with scale, mounted in bung

Marghine

1820-1900

Fiducial-ray Cobalt-glass and ocular

Boys' Radiomicrometer, 1887-1900

1887-1900

Instrument possibly used to observe atmospheric electricity

Electron diffraction camera, 1925.

1925

Sealing wax impression from moonstone seal

Nose pin of cane with decoration torquoise-coloured polished stone set in sealing wax at one end

1880-1920

Reichert's Thermoregulator (Temperature Controller), 1871-1900

1871-1900

Electric cell, 1823

1823

Crookes' Radiometer, 1872-1879

1872-1879

Replica of Vacuum Vessel Sealed with Wax, 1930

1930

Crookes' Radiometer, 1872-1879

1872-1879

Ticket for admission to the laying of the first stone of New London Bridge

1930

Volta type Eudiometer, English, 1861-1872

1861-1872

Miconine

1820-1900

Dip pen associated with Charles Friedel

1840-1860

Gay-Lussac Burette, 1840-1860

1840-1860

Electromagnetic machine

1850

Standard mercury thermometer, by Ronketti, 1846

1846

Luke Howard's rain-gauge, by Richard & George Knight, 1818

1818

Bell jar with brass collar

Mattei's electro-homeopathic treatments, Bologna, Italy, 1871-1885

1871-1885

experimental Lodge-Muirhead wireless telegraph receiver, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Globe electrical machine attributed to George Adams

before 1753

Copy of the seal of the religious medical brotherhood of the Jesuati

1880-1930

Iron framed spectacles with lenses set in sealing wax

circa 1750

Bercine

1820-1900

Five pieces of red sealing wax, believed to date from 1930s

1930-1939

Nose pins of cane with decorative polished green stone set in sealing wax at one end

1880-1920

Nose pine of cane with decorative green polished stone set in sealing wax at one end

1880-1920

Parallel plate condensor

1828-1857

Electric chimes

Globe on stand for electrical experiments

1725-1775

Unidentified preparation

1820-1900

Aspargine R.

1820-1900

Quinine

1820-1900

Fulminating pane

Apparatus used by Wheatstone in his early researches in spectrum analysis

1830-1839

Vacuum chamber of the original cyclotron, 1931 (replica)

1931

Crookes' Radiometer, 1872-1879

1872-1879