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Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Replica of Bell's 1876 centennial telephone transmitter, 1959

1959

Poured wax doll

circa 1900

‘Medico-Electrical Machine’ by Nairne and Blunt

1782-1793

Experimental carbon pencil microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Powdered graphite microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Specimen of the first transatlantic telephone cable, deep sea type, 1956

1956

Experimental microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Experimental carbon block microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Experimental microphones with carbon pencils and cups, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Granular microphone in glass tube, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Aerial inductances, 1901

1901

Receiving ‘jigger’ used by the Marconi Company, 1899

1899

Filings coherer, glass tube bent into U-shape at one end with bulb to form side-pocket on mounting bracket with terminals, 1894-1904

1894-1904

Hertzian receiving resonator, 1890-1894

1890-1894

De Forest syntoniser, 1902-1907

1902-1907

Filings coherer, small glass tube with bulb at one end and cap of red sealing wax at other end, 1898

1898

Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

1851

Wax portrait of George Atkins (1766 – 1855) by Richard Cockle Lucas

1852

Cylindrical glass bottle of quinine sulphate

1860-1910

Cylindrical glass bottle containing cinchonidine

Capacitor used in the development of the 'Baby' computer

1948

Wax plaque showing a dissected female figure

1801-1830

Plaque showing the development of a human embryo

1801-1830

Wax model of a female human head, Germany, 1801-1900

1801-1900

Wax plaque showing foetus in the womb

1801-1830

Wax plaque showing a dissected female figure

1801-1830

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

1875-1880

Amuletic loadstone with scalloped metal mounts

1551-1700

Plaque showing the development of a human embryo

1801-1830

Wax plaque showing a dissected female figure

1801-1830

Plaque showing the development of a human embryo

1801-1830

Wax plaque of woman showing foetus in the womb

1801-1830

Wax plaque showing a dissected female figure

1801-1830

Alarm clock

1840-1900

Granular microphone in bamboo tube, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Powdered graphite microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Powdered graphite microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Experimental microphone using steel needles and gas carbon, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Cell used in interruptor circuit, 1875-1890

1875-1890

Receiving ‘jigger’ used by the Marconi Company, 1898

1898

Filings coherer, glass tube capped at ends, 1894-1904

1894-1904

Waxed post-mortem thread

circa 2016

'Santa Medicina' sculpture by Eleanor Crook

2019

Edison 'Concert' phonograph

1910-1912

African American soldiers court martialled at Paignton

15 october 1943

Two-Core Edison Tube

1882

Experimental wood-charcoal microphones, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Wax plaque in glazed wooden frame

1701-1730

Haemoglobinometer

1850-1950