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Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

Cut-away model of the T.S. 'Olympic', 1910-1937

Water Transport

1910-1937

'Radio Celebrities' cigarette card albums, 1934-1940

Radio Communication

1934-1940

'Radio Celebrities Second Series' cigarette card album, 1934-1940

Radio Communication

1934-1940

The Atlantic Telegraph, broadsheet, 1866

Telecommunications

1866

Hand painted Indian cotton fabric

Textile Industry

1700-1800

Bottle of `Super Quink' permanent black ink, 1fl.o

Domestic Appliances

1940-1965

Bottle of Waterman 88 Bleu Nuit ink

Domestic Appliances

c. 1950

Official UK copy of the Bonn GSM mobile phone agreement, 1987

Telecommunications

1987

National Telephone Company directory, 1898-1899

Telecommunications

1898-1899

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

Telecommunications

1856-1857

'Radio Celebrities' cigarette card album, 1934-1940

Radio Communication

1934-1940

Folding pocket sundial

Navigation

1650-1675

Set of 7 square brass grain weights and two folded pieces of paper: one of which is inscribed with ‘Alicante’, for the Mark of Alicante from the Castlereagh Collection

Weighing & Measuring

1800-1818

Principal varieties of mankind', 3 May 1850.

James Reynolds

1850

Henry the Bristol Zoo orangutan

Photographs

1950

Le Cabinet de M. Le Clerc

Sebastien Le

c. 1700

'Siderius Nuncius Magna' and 'Dissertatis cum Sideris Nuncio'

Printed Books

1610-1611

William Henry Fox Talbot Album 14

Photographs

1843-1844

Clarke's-type electromagnetic machine, in rectangu

Therapeutics

1854-1860

TV for contented cows

Photographs

23 July 1961

Imperial electric typewriter, about 1965

Printing & Writing

1962-1967

Daily Herald contact sheet showing 'Mohinija' the baby rhino

Photographs

1958

African American soldiers court martialled at Paignton

Photographs

15 october 1943

Aneurin Bevan visits East Glamorgan Hospital

Photographs

19 January 1948

X-ray of child who swallowed a toy airplane

Photographs

1938

Photograph showing slow loris holding a grooming toothbrush

Photographs

1955-11-21

Bottle of Marking Ink

Textile Industry

Marie Curie in her laboratory, 1912

Photographs

1912

Design for a Crane Neck Phaeton carriage

Art

1810

Brass mariner's compass in gimbals set in mahogany box

Navigation

1775-1850

Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier at Roehampton

Photographs

31 May 1949

Cipher machine

Mathematics

1938

Photograph showing a Tasmanian wolf (thylacine)

Photographs

1949-05-18

Fantascope disc

Cinematography

1833

Breakthrough outdoor television projection

Photographs

27 July 1966

Box for peep show

Optics

1825-1835

Image of Marie Curie with her daughters Eve and Irene

Photographs

1908

David Whitfield fan

Photographs

1954

Le Cabinet de M. Le Clerc (unfinished)

Sebastien Le

c.1700

Newton

Art

1830-1831

The Eagle: Pilot of the Future

Frank Hampson

1951

Design for a Dress/Travelling Landau carriage

Art

1850

Behind the scenes photograph from filming of 'Edward, My Son'

Photographs

1949

Magic lantern rackwork slide: Village Street Scene

Cinematography

H.G. Wells and Alexander Korda on set of 'The Man Who Could Work Miracles'

Photographs

18 May 1935

Aneurin Bevan opens West Glamorgan County Hospital

Photographs

18 Janury 1948

Aneurin Bevan at Park Hospital

Photographs

06 July 1948

1950s television illustration photograph

Photographs

1953

Magic lantern pose slide

Cinematography

1900-1920