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Hank Winding Machine

Textile Industry

1897

NER 0-6-0 '1001' class steam locomotive and tender, No 1275, 1874

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

Textile Industry

c. 1900

borough market junction signal box

Signalling & Telecommunications

1895

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Braiding Machine

Textile Industry

c.1900

Brake composite/observation saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

Water pipe from Water Street, Manchester

Water Supply & Sanitation

1890-1899

Platt Brothers Notice

Textile Industry

1899

Lancashire Loom

Textile Industry

c. 1880

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

Cinematography

1888

Experimental microphone, 1878-1890

Telecommunications

1878-1890

Embossing telegraph receiver 1878-1900

Telecommunications

1878-1900

Great Western Railway locomotive headlamp

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1897

National Telephone Company directory, 1898-1899

Telecommunications

1898-1899

Felt and Tarrant Comptometer, 1887.

Mathematics

c. 1900

Model vertical cylinder fire engine

Firefighting

c. 1885

Model pipe with funnel top

Domestic Appliances

1895

submarine cable laid across the River Medina, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

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

Radio Communication

1875-1880

X-ray tube

X-rays

1895-1899

Fowler's phrenological head

Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry

1879-1896

Lenses from the Finsen lamp

Therapeutics

1890-1900

Crossley telephone receiver, 1880

Telecommunications

1880

Wall telephone with Blake transmitter, 1880-1900

Telecommunications

1880-1900

Spark gap or knob coherer, 1889

Radio Communication

1889

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

Clinical Diagnosis

1876

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

Electronic Components

1889

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

Electronic Components

1889

Saw bench

Hand and Machine Tools

1879

Carding engine

Textile Industry

1896

Ring transformer, 1892

Telecommunications

1892

Steam locomotive, number 245

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

Road Transport

1884

Block instrument (lock and block)

Signalling & Telecommunications

1897

Steam locomotive, number 673

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

Midland Railway composite carriage

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1885

Lu-Min-Um Safety Bicycle

Road Transport

1896

Rover 'Safety' bicycle, 1885

Road Transport

1885

L&YR locomotive, number 1008

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1889

Strowger step-by-step automatic telephone exchange switch, 1897-1898

Telecommunications

1897-1898

Sinclair line selector automatic switch board, 1880-1890

Telecommunications

1880-1890

Penny Farthing Bicycle

Road Transport

1880-1890

Receiving ‘jigger’ used by the Marconi Company, 1898

Radio Communication

1898

powdered graphite microphone, 1878-1890

Telecommunications

1878-1890

Powdered graphite microphone, 1878-1890

Telecommunications

1878-1890

Experimental carbon pencil microphone, 1878-1890

Telecommunications

1878-1890

Model smokebox

Domestic Appliances

1895

Model demonstrating different types of eye sight, Europe, 1880-1900

Ophthalmology

1880-1900

Foetal monaural stethoscope

Clinical Diagnosis

1875-1885