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North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Travelling tea case in leather case

1895

Wise's Patent Train Staff

1886

Cape Government locomotive and tender 4-8-0, 1896

1896

Water from the River Jordan

1881

Light-bulb, filament, carbon

About 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Sample of Acid Yellow Dye

circa 1890

Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

circa 1900

Platt Brothers Notice

1898

Platt Brothers Notice

1899

Hand-operated mill for grinding coffee beans

1880-1900

Shoehorn made from Rescued Brass from Thirsk Disaster

1892

Catgut suture

1875

Hank Winding Machine

1897

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Poured wax doll

circa 1900

Commemorative spade used to turn the first sod of the River Lee Conservancy's new cutting through Horse Shoe Point

1878

Poster for Magni & C. Vicenza, printed by G Ricordi & C Milano c1900

circa 1900

Ring transformer, 1892

1892

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Silver medal, commemorates the International Health Exhibition

1884

Circular electric hot plate for domestic cooking

1892-1900

Sugar nippers, 19th century.

1880-1900

Water pipe from Water Street, Manchester

1890-1899

Marine thermometer by Negretti and Zambra

1890

Device for recording warder patrols in a Lunatic Asylum

1877-1897

Coherer with coarse brass turnings, 1894

1894

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Experimental carbon block microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

'Pock-marked faces: A curious illusion', anti-vaccination leaflet

1880-1890

National Telephone Company directory, 1898-1899

1898-1899

A T & T national telephone directory, October 1896

1896

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Syntonic Leyden jars, 1880-1889

1880-1889

Hertzian receiving resonator, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Model steam locomotive

1890

Coherer, ebonite, with adjustable contacts, 1890-1896

1890-1896

Full dentures, England, 1890-1900

1890-1900

Experimental transmitting ‘jigger’ used by the Marconi Company, 1899

1899

Powdered graphite microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

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

1898

Receiving ‘jigger’ used by the Marconi Company, 1899

1899

Experimental carbon pencil microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890