Cooke and Wheatstone’s double-needle telegraph, 1838
1838
Flat steel-spring (or watch-spring) coherer, 1894
1894
Silver thimble, used to pass a current through the 1866 Transatlantic cable, 1860-1866
1860-1866
Pioneers of Electric Telegraphy at the British Association
1865
Filings coherer, glass tube bent at 45-degree angle at one end to form side-pocket, 1898
1898
Iron borings coherer (Branly type), 1894
1894
Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857
1853-1857
Clock dial marked 'Potter, Railway Time', 1840-1880
1840-1880
Transmitting keys for Five-needle telegraph, 1837-1846
1837-1846
Spark gap or knob coherer, 1889
1889
Cooke and Wheatstone's ABC telegraph transmitter
1840
Section of first telegraph cable, 1837
1837
Gold lever watch by George Blackie
1873
Whitworth Planing Machine
circa 1842
Pendant in form of plastic model of "Heinz" gherkin
1885-1895
Beale-type microscope
1871-1900
Cast iron hospital bed
1851-1900
Ceramic pot lid for Beddard's Belgravia tooth paste
1860-1900
Four ivory charity collection tallies
1863-1880
Stuffed "princely Mastigure" lizard amulet
1881-1900
Ear trumpet hearing aid
1869-1900
Gold, porcelain, and ivory denture set
1840-1860
Plaque for cot, Great Ormond Street Hospital
1900
Amethyst glass pharmacy bottle
1840-1900
Monaural stethoscope and percussor
1846-1855
Statue depicting Florence Nightingale
1851-1900
Wooden mask
1871-1900
Chicle gum in specimen jar
1850-1900
Alarm clock
1840-1900
Sunglasses with dark blue lenses
1860-1900
Fowler's phrenological head
1879-1896
Packet of pure quinine powder
1890-1900
Bird cage from Sussex Lunatic Asylum
1872
Oval dynamometer with central scale with indicator
1840-1880
Straight spectacles with folding lenses
1851-1900
Broca goniometer for measuring angles of the face
1862-1900
Electric hairbrush
1896-1900
Display carboy with stopper on stand
1840-1890
Figure group: 'The Toothdrawer', Berlin, 1870-1880
1870-1880
Wine glass used by Joseph Lister as a culture glass
1860-1880
Early inhaler for ether anaesthesia
1847-1848
Set of six test tubes with stand, used by Joseph Lister
1875-1878
Nitrous oxide cylinder
1840-1868
Glass flask containing urine
1865-1877
Richardson's galvanic amulet against diseases
1881-1900
Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister
1866-1870
Green tin of sulpho-chromic catgut ligatures
1876-1900
Lenses from the Finsen lamp
1890-1900
Circular unit of Finsen lamp
1890-1900
Neolithic flint scraper
4000-2001 BCE