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London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1880

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Swan electric lamp

Lighting

1878-1879

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

Lighting

1879

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Gower-Bell telephone, 1881

Telecommunications

1881

Pair of Bell telephones, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Lancashire Loom

Textile Industry

c. 1880

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

Crossley telephone receiver, 1880

Telecommunications

1880

Edison telephone peg switchboard and pegs, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

wooden base for submarine cable laid across the River Medina, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Engraving: Watt's first experiment

Art

1879

Rotative Compound Beam Engine, 1881

Pumping Machinery

1881 (original)

Scarificator from cupping set

Therapeutics

1878

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

submarine cable laid across the River Medina, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Crossley table telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Jones 50-line switchboard, 1879.

Telecommunications

1879

Scarificator from cupping set

Therapeutics

1878

Glass bottle, part of cupping set

Therapeutics

1878

Wick, part of cupping set

Therapeutics

1878

Child's Ordinary bicycle (c. 1880)

Road Transport

c.1880

European celestial globe

Astronomy

1878

Commemorative spade used to turn the first sod of

Civil Engineering

1878

Tailboard, North Eastern Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1880

Nested cupping glasses

Therapeutics

1878

Wood-working brace drill, with button-operated latch chuck, 1875-1885

Hand and Machine Tools

c. 1880

Water from the River Jordan

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1881

Wooden case for cupping set

Therapeutics

1878

Bezel wind wrist watch, c.1880

Time Measurement

c. 1880

Nested cupping glasses

Therapeutics

1878

Brass lamp, part of cupping set

Therapeutics

1878

Kelvin's harmonic analyser

Mathematics

1878

Telegraph transmitter

Telecommunications

c.1880

Lawson 'Bicyclette', 1879

Road Transport

1879
Set of wheels, cast from original patterns for Blenkinsop Railway locomotive, 1 fluted set, 2 flanged sets, painted black and set on rails; overall dimensions: 1800 mm x 2000 mm (see note below)

Set of wheels from Blenkinsop Railway locomotive

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1880

Incandescent electric lamp with 'candlestick' cap

Lighting

1879

Seal and stamp - Newhaven Gas and Coke Company

Gas Industry

1879

Wax death mask of Benjamin Disraeli, England, 1881

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1881

William Powell Frith

Photographs

1880
Walking stick, made from telegraph wires which passed over the old Tay Bridge before the Disaster of 1879, made by John McKay a labourer of Tayport Harbour, (broken).

Walking stick made from telegraph wires from Tay Bridge

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1879

Hall typewriter in portable walnut case, 1881

Printing & Writing

1881

Submarine cable laid across the River Medina, Isle of Wight, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE

Tinfoil phonograph, made by Brehmer Bros., Philade

Sound Reproduction

1880

W. H. Bailey Hot-Air Engine

Motive Power

1880

Very early Edison carbon filament lamp.

Lighting

1879

Tri-unial magic lantern

Photographic Technology

1880

Magic lantern slide: Lion

Cinematography

1880