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Swan electric lamp

Lighting

1878-1879

"Dreadnought" bookmaker's bag

Time Measurement

c. 1925

Hypodermic syringe with glass phials of drugs

Therapeutics

1885-1910

St Hubert's Key

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1920

Pasteur-Chamberland-type water filter

Public Health & Hygiene

1884-1900

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

Electronic Components

1889

Cash register

Cash Registers

c.1910

Midland Railway composite carriage

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1885

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Mill Engine

Motive Power

1903

Dr Macaura’s blood circulator

Therapeutics

1890-1910

Strowger step-by-step automatic telephone exchange switch, 1897-1898

Telecommunications

1897-1898

Great Northern Railway brake van

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1887

Circular metal pendant

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1850-1920

Gecophone crystal detector radio set no. 1, 1923

Radio Communication

1923

Wooden figure of pregnant female

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1880-1920

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 3rd Class open railway carriage, 1834

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1834

ceramic tile map of north eastern railway

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1900, about

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

Exercise chair, England, 1840-1900

Therapeutics

1840-1900

Quarter-plate `Cameo' camera used to take 'second phase' of Cottingley Fairies photographs, 1918-1920

Photographs

1915-1920

'City of Truro' Steam locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1903

Steam locomotive, named Lode Star, Great Western Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1907

Thomson's Mirror Marine Galvanometer, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

Aston's first mass spectrograph, c. 1919.

Nuclear Physics

1918-1925

Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia

Anaesthesiology

1847-1848

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

Telecommunications

1843-1875

Piorry type monaural stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1834-1883

Green glass Woulfe bottle, Europe, 1851-1900

Laboratory Medicine

1851-1900

Britannia statue

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1849

Great Northern Railway, locomotive 251

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1902

Cloth tape measure

Hand and Machine Tools

1850-1860

Jacquard hand loom

Textile Industry

c. 1910

Nasmyth steam hammer

Hand and Machine Tools

1845-1855

Gas mask, Germany, 1915-1918

Public Health & Hygiene

1915-1918

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

Midland Railway locomotive number 1000

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1902

Photograph of the Great Nebula in Orion, 1883

Astronomy

1883

Rorschach Inkblot Test, Bern Switzerland, 1942

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1921

Hangman's rope, England, 1870-1888

Wellcome (general)

1870-1888

Left prosthetic leg, Cyprus, 1914-1918

Orthopaedics

1914-1918

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

Copper plaque stamped with a Latin cross for protection against cholera

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1900-1909

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

Telecommunications

1838

Medical kit used by Ernest Shackleton

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1907

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

Marine Engines

1853-1857

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

Telecommunications

1878