This device, used in operating theatres in the 1870s and 1880s, filled the air with a pungent, yellow mist of an antiseptic called carbolic acid.
These baby-weighing scales, made around 1900, were used by health visitors.
This is a wooden acupuncture model made in Japan in 1681.
This spray can was used to help slow the spread of malaria, a life-threatening disease carried by mosquitoes.
This saw was used to amputate (cut off) people’s arms or legs. It is about five hundred years old.
This gallery tells the story of the Information Age over the last two hundred years.
Find something more than 100 years old; something you wish you’d invented…
Find something you wish you had invented; strike a pose and take a museum selfie…
Find something that’s heavier than you; find something that generates friction…
Find something that you think is strong; find something made from plastic…
Find something you think is beautiful and useful; something that solves a problem…
This video shows highlights to look out for on your visit to the Textiles Gallery at the Science and Industry Museum, Manchester.