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Print of Henry Beighton's Engraving of a Newcomen Engine

Motive Power

1717-1725

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

Telecommunications

1860

Artificial heart from The Jarvik Aritifical Heart System

Surgery

1975-1985

‘Larzine’ Unani medicine for malaria

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1975-1980

Empty bottle for Opium tincture tablets

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1880-1940

E-Z drug testing kit, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1998

Public Health & Hygiene

1998

Hirtz's compass for locating bullets, Paris, France, 1915

Clinical Diagnosis

1915

Holmgren's coloured wool test for colour blindness, Europe, 1871-1900

Ophthalmology

1871-1900

'Dr Syntax and his wife making an experiment in pneumatics', print, London, England, 1820

William Combe

1820

Amulet and charm to protect against plague

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1690-1710

Wheatstone printing telegraph, 1841

Telecommunications

1841

The Ready Reckoner' book of tables, c 1826.

Mathematics

c.1826

Stanhope square demonstrator, c.1805.

Mathematics

c.1805

Glass bottle of penicillin powder

Biotechnology

1943

Form board from Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scales

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1937-1949

Horary quadrant by Henry Sutton

Astronomy

1658

Glass bottle for De Witt’s Kidney and Bladder Pills, England, 1920-1960

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1920-1960

Rechargeable battery, 1945-1955

Electricity Supply

1945-1955

Bottle of quinine hydrochloride tablets, London, England, 1901-1930

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1901-1930

'Szondi-Test', psychological test, Switzerland, 1947

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1947

Bryant & May ‘Pearl’ safety matches, London, England, 1890-1940

Smoking

1890-1940

Model, of Woolf's Water Tube Boiler, 1819

Motive Power

1819

Telescope by Christopher Cock

Optics

1673

Pair of shoes for bound feet

Asian Medicine

1870-1910

Bundle of red cloth wrapped in paper labelled, “Specimens of red dye upon cotton”

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

'Electric tonic' amusement machine, Europe, 1915-1925

Therapeutics

1915-1925

'Post Office Telephones automatic telephone tones' gramophone record

Telecommunications

1930-1960

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

Thomas Talbot Bury

1831

'Rodine' rat poison, Scotland, 1948-1950

Public Health & Hygiene

1948-1950

Pioneers of Electric Telegraphy at the British Association

Telecommunications

1865

Chronoscope, England, 1921-1939

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1921-1939

Lectern sign carrying the message "Hands. Face. Space"

Public Health & Hygiene

2020

Paper packet of Manganese, tied with string

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

Art

1851

Telescope by John Marshall

Optics

1685-1695

Jewish manuscript amulet

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1870-1930

Symbolic Play Test, United Kingdom, 1988

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1988

Thermogene Medicated Rub. Card

Industrial Chemistry

1970

The Rev Dr Priestley's House and Elaboratory

William Ellis

1792

Plato

James Hall Nasmyth

1844

Patient register

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1900-1970

Cream ceramic jar labelled "Logwood"

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Paper packet, labelled 'Blue Stone'

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Hypothermia advice card, England, 1994-1995

Public Health & Hygiene

1994-1995

letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

Telecommunications

1858-03-02

Tin of 500 anti-malaria tablets

Industrial Chemistry

1951-1975

'1-Day Acuvue' contact lenses, United States, 1999

Ophthalmology

1999

Folded paper packet, containing small stones

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Box of aspirin tablets, London, England, 1949-1966

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1949-1966

Snow-type chloroform inhaler

Anaesthesiology

1848-1870