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

circa 1885

Wise's Patent Train Staff

1886

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Model ground signal, North London Railway

1888

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Model vertical cylinder fire engine

circa 1885

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

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

1886-1887

Copper ore from the Bell Mine

before 1889

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

before 1889

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Great Western Railway splasher plate

1889

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Spagnoletti intermediate signalling instrument

1885

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

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

1705-1737

Spark gap or knob coherer, 1889

1889

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

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

1934

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

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

1889

Cupriferous sandstone from Schweinkopf

before 1889

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Cobalt ore from New Caledonia

before 1889

Two Spools of Celluloid Made by Louis Le Prince and Case

1888-1889

Rectilinear Landscape Lens by J H Dallmeyer

1888

Medal, bronze, commemorating Luigi Galvani

1888

Silver medal of the hospital of Santa Casa da Misericordia

1889

Bronze medal

1887

Bronze medal

1886

Early moving coil voltmeter

1889

Sturgeon mercury break

1886

Rheostat, Kelvin Pattern

1888

"Vernier" potentiometer (Thomson-Varley slides)

1889

Ammeter graduated to 100 amperes

1887

Voltmeter graduated to 100 volts

1887

Muirhead Clark standard cell

1888

Rain gauge

1888