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Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

Cinematography

1888

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

Electronic Components

1889

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

Electronic Components

1889

Lancashire Loom

Textile Industry

c. 1880

Crossley telephone receiver, 1880

Telecommunications

1880

Spark gap or knob coherer, 1889

Radio Communication

1889

Model vertical cylinder fire engine

Firefighting

c. 1885

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

Road Transport

1884

Midland Railway composite carriage

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1885

Penny Farthing Bicycle

Road Transport

1880-1890

Rover 'Safety' bicycle, 1885

Road Transport

1885

L&YR locomotive, number 1008

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1889

The Demon Detective camera

Photographic Technology

1889

Syntonic Leyden jars, 1880-1889

Radio Communication

1880-1889

Sinclair line selector automatic switch board, 1880-1890

Telecommunications

1880-1890

West Coast Joint Stock postal sorting van No 186, 1885

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1885

Sixteen lens cine camera by Louis Le Prince

Cinematography

1886-1887

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

Electronic Components

1889

wall telephone using a Blake transmitter, 1880-1890

Telecommunications

1880-1890

Great Northern Railway brake van

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1887

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1880

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Gladstone

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1882

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

Telecommunications

1888

Plaster model of a human eye, France, 1884

Anatomy & Pathology

1884

Meerschaum tobacco pipe

Smoking

1880-1890

Scutcher

Textile Industry

1889

Chronophotographe double-use camera

Cinematography

1890

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

Archive

1880-1890

dye sample

Industrial Chemistry

c.1890

paper tensile tester

Papermaking

c.1890

Tailboard, North Eastern Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1880

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

Hand and Machine Tools

c. 1880

dye sample

Industrial Chemistry

c.1890

Set of 8 brass handled, inspector's Imperial standard testing weights

Weighing & Measuring

1890

Telephone transmitter

Telecommunications

c.1885

Granular carbon-type telephone transmitter

Telecommunications

c. 1885

Drawing instrument set

Mathematics

c1890

photographic plates

Photographic Technology

c.1888

Silver medal, commemorates the International Health Exhibition

Wellcome Medals

1884

Spagnoletti intermediate signalling instrument

Signalling & Telecommunications

1885

dye sample

Industrial Chemistry

c.1890

Magneto HMT wall telephone

Telecommunications

c.1890

Sample of Acid Yellow Dye

Industrial Chemistry

c.1890

Water from the River Jordan

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1881

Gower-Bell wall telephone

Telecommunications

c.1880

Bezel wind wrist watch, c.1880

Time Measurement

c. 1880

dye sample

Industrial Chemistry

c.1890

dye sample

Industrial Chemistry

c.1890

Magneto wall telephone

Telecommunications

c1880

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

Marine Engines

1886-1887