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Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

Therapeutics

1862

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

Water Transport

1853-1857

A stchoty, Russian abacus.

Mathematics

1901-1930

Gecophone crystal detector radio set no. 1, 1923

Radio Communication

1923

'Pedoscope' shoe-fitting X-ray viewer

Radiomedicine

1948-1953

Felt and Tarrant Comptometer, 1887.

Mathematics

c. 1900

Thomson's Mirror Galvanometer, 1858

Telecommunications

1858

Thomson's Mirror Marine Galvanometer, 1858

Electricity and Magnetism

1858

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

Telecommunications

1837

Swan electric lamp

Lighting

1878-1879

Automatic Computing Engine (ACE) simulator, 1950

Computing & Data Processing

1950

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

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

Electricity and Magnetism

1865-1866

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

Motive Power

1797-1804

Copying desk, with lock and key and felt on mahogany board

Printing & Writing

1780-1800

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

Telecommunications

1838

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

Telecommunications

1858-1860

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

Mathematics

1815

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

Surveying

1826-1828

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

George III's Magdeburg hemispheres

King George III

1761

Terrestrial Globe by George Adams

King George III

1766

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

Telecommunications

1848-1852

Display case, 1994

Telecommunications

1994

Debrie 'Le Parvo' 35mm Cine Camera

Cinematography

1908

Celestial globe by George Adams

King George III

1766

Single needle telegraph, 1846

Telecommunications

1846

Demainbray's optical model

King George III

1752

Circular instrument dividing engine.

Industrial Metrology

1815-1825

Fowke's Bellows camera

Photographic Technology

1856

Plane table board for plane table outfit

Surveying

1801-1830

Coast Navigator, silvered brass analogue computer

Navigation

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

Telecommunications

1844

36-drawer wooden cabinet, with drawers numbered 1 to 36, from the Viscount Castlereagh Collection for Alicante, Spain

Weighing & Measuring

1815-1818

Galvani's voltaic pile

Therapeutics

1800-1820

model sykes lock and block signalling system

Railway Models

1875

Reynaud's Praxinoscope Theatre

Cinematography

1879 (1956)

Variation Compass and magnetometer, 1837-1843

Terrestrial Magnetism

1837-1843

Model of a Jacquard loom

Textiles Machinery

1867

Early pendulum clock by Salomon Coster, c.1657.

Time Measurement

1657-1659

Meccano differential analyser, 1947

Mathematics

1934; 1947

Model of Henry Cavendish's Torsion Balance Gravitational Apparatus, 1798

Geophysics

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

Camera obscura, box-type, with 2 3/8-inch meniscus

Optics

1845-1855

Roller Blind Shutter for Camera

Photographic Technology

1900

Gas leak detector, Short's Gas

Gas Industry

1900

Tri-unial magic lantern

Photographic Technology

1880

Polyrama Panoptique

Cinematography

c. 1850

Hunting trousse, England, 1560-1580

Surgery

1560-1580

Minot-Zimmermann-type microtome, Leipzig, Germany, 1908-1918

Microscopes

1908-1918

Prestwich cine camera used by Herbert Ponting

Cinematography

1910