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

1860

Pen tray made of gutta-percha

1850-1900

Time register for recording asylum warder patrols

1870-1899

Cell used in interruptor circuit, 1875-1890

1875-1890

Galvanic brooch

1880-1910

Sample of transatlantic cable, 1865-66

1865-1866

Granular microphone in bamboo tube, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Conversation tube hearing aid

1860-1900

Portrait Bust of Thomas Russell Crampton

1865

Britannia statue

1849

Portrait bust of Joseph Locke

1902

Composition pestle and mortar

1870-1901

Green tin of sulpho-chromic catgut ligatures

1876-1900

Electric hairbrush

1896-1900

Therapeutic Exercise Chair, Wiesbaden, Germany, 1901-1905

1901-1905

Galvanic brooch of black vulcanite

1890-1910

Ceramic pot lid for tooth paste

1880-1910

Ceramic pot lid for Beddard's Belgravia tooth paste

1860-1900

Spencer Wells artery forceps

1890-1910

Design for a mirror back in ivoride

1870-1875

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

1870

Holmes' arc lamp from South Foreland Lighthouse, about 1860-80.

1860-1880

Drawing, design for a mirror back / unsigned

1870-1875

Early submarine cables and grapnel, 1858-1866.

1858-1866

Chart of the Atlantic showing proposed course of the Atlantic Cable, 1856-1857

1856-1857

'Thunder pump' magneto-electric device, 1856

1856

Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Domestic Sewing Machine for chain stitich

1868

Model of Great Central Railway "Atlantic" Express Locomotive

1903 (original); 1982 (model)

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Caledonian express no 938

1915

Dissecting apron

1860-1910

Tongue depressor

1851-1900

Craniometer, stainless steel

1874-1902

Tables of lifetimes, annuities, and premiums

1864

Babbage's Analytical Engine, 1834-1871. (Trial model)

1871

Artifcial left arm, United States, 1915

1915

'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851

1851

Sectioned conjectural model of 'Rocket' steam locomotive

1909

Mauveine acetate dye in microcrystalline form in a cork-stoppered glass bottle

1906

Lithograph of Daniel Spills Ivorideworks by Daniel Greenaway, 1875

1875

Maxim's 'Pipe of Peace', 1909-1910

1909-1910

Tooth shade guide, England, 1890-1910

1890-1910

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

1866-1870

Ear trumpet hearing aid

1869-1900

Ear trumpet

1850-1900

Ear trumpet and walking stick combined

1875-1885

Pewter bleeding bowl

1850-1915

Danchell-type water testing kit, England, 1867-1904

1867-1904

Double duck-billed speculum

1871-1900