Water pipe from Water Street, Manchester

Water Supply & Sanitation

1890-1899

Model paddle wheel engines of the SS 'Great Eastern'

Marine Engines

1853-1857

IBM ThinkPad 365e laptop computer, with Russian Cyrillic alphabet stickers on the keyboard keys

Computing & Data Processing

1997

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 3rd Class open railway carriage, 1834

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1834

Smallpox vaccine in vial

Public Health & Hygiene

1980

Magnetic compass and sundial by Henry Sutton

Navigation

1650-1665

Print, 'Searching Fault' scene on 'Great Eastern' during the laying of the first Atlantic cable, 1865-1867

Telecommunications

1865-1867

Medicinal water bottle, Elisha's spring

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1928

Schwann's microscope

Microscopes

1835

Barrel and Device from George III's guinea and feather' apparatus

King George III

1761

Terrestrial globe by John Senex

Astronomy

1738

Jacquard hand loom

Textile Industry

c. 1910

Textile mill safety notice

Archive

1900-1940

Half-penny coin

Textile Industry

1806

George III's cycloidal pendulum

King George III

1762

Technophone 'EXCELL PC105T' mobile telephone, 1986

Telecommunications

1986

Small orrery by Benjamin Martin

Astronomy

1738-1777

Platt Brothers Notice

Textile Industry

1899

George III's compound engine

King George III

1762

Princess or Comtessa dial telephone, c.1950s

Telecommunications

1951-1960

PM 40 and disposable scalpel

Surgery

c.2016

Brunton-type auriscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1874-1914

microphone from 'Oscar One' CB transceiver, 1980-1983

Radio Communication

1980-1983

Wooden tuning key for a stringed instrument

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1758-1769

Plaster mould of head of Apollo

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1790-1819

Long mahogany strip brass pin gauge with eight pins

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1758-1769

Flute foot-joint end

James Watt's Garret Workshop

1758-1769

stock exchange automatic telegraph, 1872-1880

Telecommunications

1872-1880

British Railways railway wagon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1950

Ford Model T car

Road Transport

1912

Avro Vulcan, experimental model, c 1950s.

Farnborough

c. 1953

Wooden Notice, British Railways - Attested Stock

Fixtures & Fittings from Railway Buildings

1948-1970

Watson-Odelca x-ray set for mass miniature radiography, Europe, 1960-1961

Radiomedicine

1960-1961

Cybernetic tortoise, developed to help with studies on brain function

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1950-1952

Full-size replica of British Railways 'Duke of Gloucester' cab

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

Crash helmet, made for child affected by the drug thalidomide

Orthopaedics

1967-1972

Pedoscope X-ray apparatus

Chiropody

1930-1955

Lower limb prostheses for child

Orthopaedics

1966

Great Western Railway locomotive headlamp

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1897

20-ton Goods Brake Van

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1933

Pocket surgical instrument set

Surgery

1901-1950

Binaural obstetric stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1915-1950

Felt and Tarrant Comptometer, 1887.

Mathematics

c. 1900

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

Telecommunications

1851

Portion of the first submarine cable between Dover and Calais, 1850

Telecommunications

1850

Specimen of the first transatlantic telephone cable, 1956

Telecommunications

1956

sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

Telecommunications

1857-1858

Genoese medicine chest

Materia Medica & Pharmacology

1562-1566

Alexander Performance Scale Test kit, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1946-1950

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1946-1950

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

Textiles Machinery

1837