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Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Wood-working brace drill, with button-operated latch chuck, 1875-1885

circa 1880

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

Wise's Patent Train Staff

1886

Model steam locomotive

1882

Mantel clock, presented to T.W. Worsdell - Great Eastern Railway

circa 1885

Model ground signal, North London Railway

1888

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Model steam locomotive, North Eastern Railway

1884

Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

Brass worksplate no 917, Manning Wardle & Co

1884

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Copper ore from the Bell Mine

before 1889

Arsenical cobalt or skutterudite, from Skutterude, near Modum, Norway

before 1889

Syntonic Leyden jars, 1880-1889

1880-1889

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Enamel watch depicting the Virgin and Child

1880

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Model of Robert Duncan's screw propeller, with stern frame and rudder, as fitted to the Egyptian government yacht 'Sareea

1886-1887

Silver medal, commemorates the International Health Exhibition

1884

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Model vertical cylinder fire engine

circa 1885

Tailboard, North Eastern Railway

1880

Great Western Railway splasher plate

1889

Child's Ordinary bicycle (c. 1880)

circa 1880

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

1884

Spagnoletti intermediate signalling instrument

1885

Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Bezel wind wrist watch, c.1880

circa 1880

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Tank wagon, North Eastern Railway - Shell-Mex and BP Ltd

1889

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

1880

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Watch by Sir John Bennett

1884

Lancashire Loom

circa 1880

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Plaster model of a human eye, France, 1884

1884

Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934

1934

Set of wheels from Blenkinsop Railway locomotive

1880

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Cupriferous sandstone from Schweinkopf

before 1889

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

Crossley telephone receiver, 1880

1880

Spark gap or knob coherer, 1889

1889