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Wheatstone printing telegraph, 1841

Telecommunications

1841

Myoma Screw, Liverpool, England, 1871-1900

Surgery

1871-1900

Copy of Thimonnier's chain-stitch sewing machine, 1830.

Textiles Machinery

1830

Glass copy negative of Roundhay Garden Scene

Cinematography

1930s (1888)

Fowke's Bellows camera

Photographic Technology

1856

The original Wimshurst electrostatic machine.

Electricity and Magnetism

1882

Crystal radio receiver

Radio Communication

c.1923

Wooden Kareau statue

Asian Medicine

1880-1925

Clay tobacco pipe, Paris, France, 1840-1910

Smoking

1840-1910

Daniell cell used by Edward Davy, 1836-1839

Telecommunications

1836-1839

Stock ticker for Stock exchange printing telegraph, 1907

Telecommunications

1907

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

Conch shell trumpet used by people of New Guinea a

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1850-1920

'Italian Navy' detector, 1899-1901

Radio Communication

1899-1901

Photographs of the Works in Progress of the Midland Railway

Photographic Collections (Railway)

1860-1868

Marconi coherer and Admiralty pattern decoherer, 1900-1910

Radio Communication

1900-1910

Volume 1 No. 1 of "Television" monthly magazine, 1928

Radio Communication

1928

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

Motive Power

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Coolidge X-ray tube, 1913-1923.

X-rays

1913-1923

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1880

Exercise chair, England, 1840-1900

Therapeutics

1840-1900

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

Printing & Writing

1871

"Brownie" Crystal Receiver Set No. 2, c.1925

Radio Communication

1925-1930

Rexophone crystal set with two pairs of Telefunken headphones (out of three), 1923-1930

Radio Communication

1923-1930

Binocular stereoscopic camera

Photographic Technology

c.1856

Bronchitis amulet

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1914

Specimen jar containing Wormwood

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1830-1930

Gower-Bell telephone, 1881

Telecommunications

1881

Midland Railway locomotive number 1000

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1902

borough market junction signal box

Signalling & Telecommunications

1895

Left prosthetic leg, Cyprus, 1914-1918

Orthopaedics

1914-1918

Green glass Woulfe bottle, Europe, 1851-1900

Laboratory Medicine

1851-1900

Thomson's Mirror Galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Cooke and Wheatstone’s double-needle telegraph, 1838

Telecommunications

1838

Broca goniometer for measuring angles of the face

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1862-1900

Leather truncheon used at Narborough Mental Asylum

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1901-1930

Vertical Compound Steam Engine with Hackworth's Valve Gear, 1898

Motive Power

1898

Copy of Morton's inhaler

Anaesthesiology

1870-1920

Queen Alexandra's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1902

Brownie crystal receiver and pair of Lissen headphones, 1924-1927

Radio Communication

1924-1927

Printing telegraph receiver, 1845-1851

Telecommunications

1845-1851

Cryptograph (coding and decoding machine) by Sir Charles Wheatstone, 1843-1875

Telecommunications

1843-1875

Primax moving iron loudspeaker, 1924-1927

Radio Communication

1924-1927

Lord Kelvin's 'ironclad' marine galvanometer, 1865-1866

Electricity and Magnetism

1865-1866

Braun cathode ray tube

Television

1904

Passion bottle

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1870-1920

Specimen jar containing box roots

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1830-1930

Kodak Kodascope Model B 16mm projector

Cinematography

1928

Bottle of bromocarpine nerve tonic, Paris, France, 1870-1930

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1870-1930

Nimbus, or rain cloud

Luke Howard

1849