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Clinical thermometer

1851-1900

Portrait bust of Henry Maudslay

before 1857

Spectacles, gold rims

1853

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

1867-1904

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

1860-1880

Calabash tobacco pipe

1850-1900

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

1860

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

1855

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

1870

Cesare Urtis & Co - Forniture Electriche

1900

Caricature showing a publican's dilemma during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854

circa 1854

'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851

1851

Cloth tape measure

1850-1860

Pair of wooden roller skates, 1870-1890.

1870-1890

Enfield Carbine Rifle

circa 1860

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Design for a mirror back in ivoride

1870-1875

Drawing, design for a mirror back / unsigned

1870-1875

Lithograph of Daniel Spills Ivorideworks by Daniel Greenaway, 1875

1875

Poster advertising lectures on phrenology, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, 1851

1851

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Wrap reel/Hank winder

1877

Yarn Balance

circa 1900

Casket presented to Francis William Webb

1899

Pen tray made of gutta-percha

1850-1900

Copper earthing tube believed to have been used by Marconi, 1890-1897

1890-1897

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

1878

Richardson's galvanic amulet against diseases

1881-1900

Electric hairbrush

1896-1900

Powdered graphite microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Powdered graphite microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Section of cross-Channel telephone cable, 1897

1897

Cell used in interruptor circuit, 1875-1890

1875-1890

Magneto-electrometer, 1857

1857

Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934

1934

Laennec-type monaural stethoscope, France, 1851-1900

1851-1900

Bell Transmitter with Membrane Diaphragm, 1875-1877

1875-1877

Polarized 'guillotine' relay, 1862-1866

1862-1866

Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877

1870-1877

Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Hughes microphone detector, 1865-1875

1865-1875

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

1875-1880

Artificial leg made for a child, England, 1903

1903

Craniometer, stainless steel

1874-1902

Iron borings coherer (Branly type), 1894

1894

Experimental microphone using steel needles and gas carbon, 1878-1890

1878-1890