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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

Electromagnetic machine

1850

Standard mercury thermometer, by Ronketti, 1846

1846

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

1818

Gay-Lussac Burette, 1840-1860

1840-1860

Volta type Eudiometer, English, 1861-1872

1861-1872

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

Unipivot galvanometer

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

1871-1900

Electric cell, 1823

1823

Spiral fulminating tube

Glass bowl on whirling stand

1734-1795

Crookes' Radiometer, 1872-1879

1872-1879

Replica of Vacuum Vessel Sealed with Wax, 1930

1930

Crookes' Radiometer, 1872-1879

1872-1879

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

1843

Two glass tubes with scale, mounted in bung

Marghine

1820-1900

Miconine

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

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

1930

Bell jar with brass collar

Dip pen associated with Charles Friedel

1840-1860

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

1871-1885

Globe electrical machine attributed to George Adams

before 1753

Arrow used with Original Boys' bow for Shooting Quartz Fibres, 1887

1887

Arrow used with the Original Boys' Bow for Shooting Quartz Fibres, 1887

1887

Glass Hydrometer, Beaume No. 1, 1866-1876

1866-1876

Unidentified preparation

1820-1900

Aspargine R.

1820-1900

Quinine

1820-1900

Bercine

1820-1900

Fulminating pane

Apparatus used by Wheatstone in his early researches in spectrum analysis

1830-1839

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

two steel dies

1825-1832

Vacuum chamber of the original cyclotron, 1931 (replica)

1931

experimental Lodge-Muirhead wireless telegraph receiver, 1900-1910

1900-1910

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

1880-1930

Parallel plate condensor

1828-1857