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Place
Material
Date

Jones 50-line switchboard, 1879.

1879

Edison telephone peg switchboard and pegs, 1879

1879

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

1878

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

Bell Transmitter with Membrane Diaphragm, 1875-1877

1875-1877

Hughes microphone detector, 1865-1875

1865-1875

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

1934

Sample of transatlantic cable, 1865-66

1865-1866

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

1870-1877

Watch by Sir John Bennett

1884

Ear trumpet and walking stick combined

1875-1885

Model of human eye

1870

Figure group: 'The Toothdrawer', Berlin, 1870-1880

1870-1880

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

1866-1870

Steam locomotive, 'Bauxite'

1874

Panorama de Paris

1878

Bronze ticket medal for admission and commemoration of the exposition et congres d' Hygiene et de Sauvetage

1876

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Sectional Model of a Beam Engine, 1866.

1866

Crossley telephone receiver, 1880

1880

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

1875-1880

Pioneers of Electric Telegraphy at the British Association

1865

Bird cage from Sussex Lunatic Asylum

1872

Set of six test tubes with stand, used by Joseph Lister

1875-1878

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Croll Testimonial silver gilt fountain, Parcel-gilt Victorian silver rosewater fountain designed as a table centrepiece

1870

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Queen Victoria's Saloon

1869

Early telephone by Alexander Graham Bell, 1877.

1877

Admiral FitzRoy type Barometer, 1876-1884

1876-1884

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Parsons' steam turbine generator, 1884

1884

Lawson 'Bicyclette', 1879

1879

Mattei's electro-homeopathic treatments, Bologna, Italy, 1871-1885

1871-1885

Saint's sewing machine, 1874.

1874

The Black Country

1869

Model of submersible 'Turtle'

1976; 1776

Self winding pocket watch in square, silver case

1875-1885

Photograph of Karl Benz

circa 1885

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Replica of Edison's First Phonograph, 1877.

1877

Gower-Bell telephone, 1881

1881

Model of a Jacquard loom, with shuttle and components

1867

Model of the Lowe-Vansittart Screw Propeller Blades

1869

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Singer 'New Family' sewing machine, 1865-1883.

1865-1883

Rigged model of the Portuguese ironclad battleship 'Vasco de Gama'

1875-1876

Photograph of the Great Nebula in Orion, 1883

1883

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915