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Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

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

1856-1857

Pioneers of Electric Telegraphy at the British Association

1865

Lead weight marked 'Reid' from the first cross-Channel telegraph cable, 1850.

1850

Filings coherer, glass tube bent at 45-degree angle at one end to form side-pocket, 1898

1898

Coherer, with steel needle inside part-wound with copper wire, 1894-1904

1894-1904

Filings coherer, Lodge-Muirhead system, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Iron borings coherer (Branly type), 1894

1894

Horseshoe magnet and keep used with experimental form of magnetic detector, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Portrait bust of Lord Kelvin, 1896

1896

Branly tripod coherer, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Coherer, with several needles, 1894-1904

1894-1904

Original wheel or steel-disc coherer, 1902

1902

Watch and wrist strap

1908

Watch by Waltham with a Dennison case

1904

Gold lever watch by George Blackie

1873

Watch by Sir John Bennett

1884

Chronometer escapement in domed glazed case by William T. Heyes

1903

Watch made for the 1851 Great Exhibition by Alexander Watkins

1851

Watch with complications and minute repeating by Samuel Smith & Son

1899

Tongue depressor

1870-1910

Pendant in form of plastic model of "Heinz" gherkin

1885-1895

Ear trumpet and walking stick combined

1875-1885

Beale-type microscope

1871-1900

Ceramic pot lid for Beddard's Belgravia tooth paste

1860-1900

Earthenware foot scraper in the form of a reptile

1880-1915

Model of human eye

1870

Four ivory charity collection tallies

1863-1880

Stuffed "princely Mastigure" lizard amulet

1881-1900

Rabbit's foot amulet

1860-1905

Tongue depressor

1851-1900

Ear trumpet hearing aid

1869-1900

Amuletic pendant in form of moulded metal slipper with scrollwork design and painted gold

1900-1913

Painted and carved male ancestral figure with headdress

1851-1910

Cot plaque from the Great Ormond Street Hospital

1904

Plaque for cot, Great Ormond Street Hospital

1900

Necklet to cure sore throats

1914

Ceramic pot lid for tooth paste

1880-1910

Statue depicting Florence Nightingale

1851-1900

Wooden mask

1871-1900

Ear trumpet

1850-1900

Double duck-billed speculum

1871-1900

Brooch to avert the evil eye

1900-1914

Chicle gum in specimen jar

1850-1900

Therapeutic Exercise Chair, Wiesbaden, Germany, 1901-1905

1901-1905

Physician's malacca cane with ivory handle

1850-1910

Sunglasses with dark blue lenses

1860-1900

Composition pestle and mortar

1870-1901

Alarm whistle for use by psychiatric warders

1890-1914

Packet of pure quinine powder

1890-1900

Straight spectacles with folding lenses

1851-1900