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Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857

Water Transport

1853-1857

Pullman Car Company, called Topaz

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1913

A stchoty, Russian abacus.

Mathematics

1901-1930

Swan electric lamp

Lighting

1878-1879

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

Gecophone crystal detector radio set no. 1, 1923

Radio Communication

1923

'Pedoscope' shoe-fitting X-ray viewer

Radiomedicine

1948-1953

Thomson's Mirror Marine Galvanometer, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

Telecommunications

1838

Marine timekeeper known as 'H5' by John Harrison and Son 1770

Clockmakers

1770

Compagnie Internationale de Wagon-Lits et de Grands Express Europeens sleeping car, 1933

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1933

Thomson's Mirror Galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Sextant by Jesse Ramsden

Astronomy

c. 1772

Fowke's Bellows camera

Photographic Technology

1856

Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

Photographic Technology

c 1897

Gordon Dobson’s original ozone spectrograph

Meteorology

1924

George III's Magdeburg hemispheres

King George III

1761

Terrestrial Globe by George Adams

King George III

1766

Castlereagh cabinet for weights

Weighing & Measuring

1815-1818

Model of Rotative Beam Engine by William Tongue, c. 1804

Motive Power

1797-1804

Single needle telegraph, 1846

Telecommunications

1846

Dividing engine for making sextants and octants

Industrial Metrology

Made late 1700s, modified 1800s

Felt and Tarrant Comptometer, 1887.

Mathematics

c. 1900

Gold watch made for Queen Amelie of France by Henri Motel

Clockmakers

c. 1840

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Deck-watch used by Capt. William Parry during his attempt to reach the North Pole, 1827

Clockmakers

1823

Marine chronometer by John Arnold and Son

Clockmakers

1795

Cable 'tree' decorative souvenir of the Transatlantic Cable, 1858

Telecommunications

1858-1860

Early pendulum clock by Salomon Coster, c.1657.

Time Measurement

1657-1659

Display case, 1994

Telecommunications

1994

Sundial making tool

Time Measurement

1690-1710

Celestial globe by George Adams

King George III

1766

Queen Elizabeth's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1941

Part of Two foot geodetic theodolite, British, 1826-1828

Surveying

1826-1828

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

Telecommunications

1844

Model of a Jacquard loom

Textiles Machinery

1867

Long mahogany strip brass pin gauge with eight pins

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1758-1769

Medicine chest used by Teddy Roosevelt.

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1900-1909

Henley's magneto electric double needle telegraph, 1848-1852

Telecommunications

1848-1852

Magnetic toy by George Adams

King George III

1765

Demainbray's model corn mill

King George III

1753

Cuff-type compound microscope

Microscopy (Wellcome)

1790-1810

Demainbray's optical model

King George III

1752

Lord Kelvin's 'ironclad' marine galvanometer, 1865-1866

Electricity and Magnetism

1865-1866

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

Mathematics

1815

Automatic Computing Engine (ACE) simulator, 1950

Computing & Data Processing

1950

model sykes lock and block signalling system

Railway Models

1875

Marey's Camera for Chronophotography

Wellcome (general)

1882