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sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

Telecommunications

1866

Sample of Acid Yellow Dye

Industrial Chemistry

c.1890

Anatomical model of a horse, c. 1850-1880.

Veterinary Medicine

1850-1880

Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge

Industrial Metrology

c. 1850

Catgut suture cord preserved in oil

Surgery

1875

Stuffed "princely Mastigure" lizard amulet

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1881-1900

Yarn Balance

Textile Industry

c.1900

Another basic slag similar to the last

Metallurgy

before 1889

Kastner's Pyrophone, 1873-1876

Acoustics

1873-1876

Silk corset, Europe, 1871-1900

Wellcome (general)

1871-1900

Replica of Edison's first phonograph, 1877.

Sound Reproduction

1877

Close, No 118 High Street

Photographs

1868

Crookes' spiral periodic system

Experimental Chemistry

1888

Tippler Toilet

Water Supply & Sanitation

1890

Lawson 'Bicyclette', 1879

Road Transport

1879

Water pipe from Water Street, Manchester

Water Supply & Sanitation

1890-1899

Platt Brothers Notice

Textile Industry

1899

sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

Telecommunications

1857-1858

Great Western Railway locomotive headlamp

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1897

Hank Winding Machine

Textile Industry

1897

scale with metal stand for Thompson mirror speaking galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Print, 'Interior Tanks', a scene on 'Great Eastern' during the laying of the first Atlantic cable, 1865-1867

Telecommunications

1865-1867

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

Telecommunications

1856

submarine cable laid across the River Medina, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

Telecommunications

1850

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, English civil engineer, mid-19th century.

Railways

1860

Clockwork interruptor, once owned by David Hughes, 1875-1880

Radio Communication

1875-1880

polarized 'guillotine' relay, 1862-1866

Telecommunications

1862-1866

Model pipe with funnel top

Domestic Appliances

1895

Experimental microphone, 1878-1890

Telecommunications

1878-1890

Early submarine cables and grapnel, 1858-1866.

Telecommunications

1858-1866

Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway

Passenger Comforts

1856

Receiving ‘jigger’ used by the Marconi Company, 1898

Radio Communication

1898

letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

Telecommunications

1858-03-02

The Atlantic Telegraph, broadsheet, 1866

Telecommunications

1866

Ring transformer, 1892

Telecommunications

1892

Wine glass possibly used as a culture glass by Joseph Lister

Microbiology

1860-1877

Sinclair line selector automatic switch board, 1880-1890

Telecommunications

1880-1890

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

Medical Glass-ware

1864

Penny Farthing Bicycle

Road Transport

1880-1890

Gold lever watch by George Blackie

Clockmakers

1873

Edison telephone peg switchboard and pegs, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Green tin of sulpho-chromic catgut ligatures

Surgery

1876-1900

'Thunder pump' magneto-electric device, 1856

Telecommunications

1856

Gooch centrepiece, 1872

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1872

Model smokebox

Domestic Appliances

1895

powdered graphite microphone, 1878-1890

Telecommunications

1878-1890

Model demonstrating different types of eye sight, Europe, 1880-1900

Ophthalmology

1880-1900

Powdered graphite microphone, 1878-1890

Telecommunications

1878-1890

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by

Froude

1867