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Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Model ground signal, North London Railway

1888

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

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

circa 1885

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Novelty model

1955; 1830

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

1886-1887

Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

Model vertical cylinder fire engine

circa 1885

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

Wise's Patent Train Staff

1886

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Copper ore from the Bell Mine

before 1889

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

before 1889

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Great Western Railway splasher plate

1889

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Spagnoletti intermediate signalling instrument

1885

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

1889

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Cupriferous sandstone from Schweinkopf

before 1889

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

1705-1737

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

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

1934

Spark gap or knob coherer, 1889

1889

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Lancashire Boiler

1889

Photograph of Karl Benz

circa 1885

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Midland Railway composite carriage

1885

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

15 lever signal lever frame

1885

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Original Tesla Induction Motor presented by Tesla to Prof. Ayrton

Original Tesla induction motor, 1887-1888.

1887-1888

Three bulb lamp fitting from Wentworth Castle by Faraday and Son

circa 1886

Rectilinear Landscape Lens by J H Dallmeyer

1888

Manchester Royal Jubilee Exhibition commemorative handkerchief

1887

Forth Bridge Railway Co. rivet from Forth Bridge

1888; 1984

Coradi planimeter and map, 1886.

1886