Equipment Inventions Collection

Early Anaesthetics
1st January 1847: A device designed to deliver anaesthetic drugs to surgical patients. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Hot Bed
circa 1830: The sweat bed, with its own built in hot water pipes under the mattress to allow even sweating of a patient. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Solar Viewer
1st April 1764: A device for exhibiting solar eclipses on a terrestrial sphere. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Telespectroscope
circa 1890: Telespectroscope for taking photographs of solar prominences. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Radiometer
An invention by Sir William Crookes (1832 - 1919), the radiometer, which converts light energy to rotary motion, by using vanes coloured black on one side and set on a spindle

Photophone
circa 1891: A forerunner to the modern talkie-apparatus. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Groovy Tunes
circa 1878: Thomas Edisons phonograph, with rotating crank, and enlargement of wax cylinder groove. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Roentgen Tube
circa 1901: A close-up of the Roentgen tube used for X-Ray production and named after Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen (1845 - 1923), the German physicist. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

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