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Rover 'Safety' bicycle, 1885

Road Transport

1885

Edison Kinetoscope

Cinematography

1894

Glass copy negative of Roundhay Garden Scene

Cinematography

1930s (1888)

The Demon Detective camera

Photographic Technology

1889

L&YR locomotive, number 1008

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1889

Midland Railway composite carriage

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1885

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

Electronic Components

1889

Snow plough, North Eastern Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1891

Panhard Levassor 4hp motor car

Road Transport

1894-1895

Kodak No 1 Camera

Photographic Technology

c. 1891

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

Cinematography

1888

West Coast Joint Stock postal sorting van No 186, 1885

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1885

Great Northern Railway brake van

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1887

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

Sixteen lens cine camera by Louis Le Prince

Cinematography

1886-1887

Iron borings coherer (Branly type), 1894

Radio Communication

1894

Pendant in form of plastic model of "Heinz" gherkin

Ethnography and Folk Medicine

1885-1895

Chronophotographe double-use camera

Cinematography

1890

Brake van, London & South Western Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1894

Going North, King's Cross Station

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1893

borough market junction signal box

Signalling & Telecommunications

1895

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

Electronic Components

1889

Model vertical cylinder fire engine

Firefighting

c. 1885

Model steam locomotive, spirit fired live steam 'dribbler' 3

Railway Models

1890

letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

Telecommunications

1893-4

Cast steel pressure cooker by A. Kendrick & Sons, 1885-1895.

Domestic Appliances

1885-1895

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

Weighing & Measuring

1890

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

Electronic Components

1889

shoehorn made from brass rescued from thirsk disaster

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1892

Spiral spring coherer, 1890-1894

Radio Communication

1890-1894

Scutcher

Textile Industry

1889

Poster for 'Pantomimes Lumineuses'

Cinematography

1892

Spirograph and examples of patterns drawn using it

Mathematics

1886

Crookes' spiral periodic system

Experimental Chemistry

1888

Spark gap or knob coherer, 1889

Radio Communication

1889

Model pipe with funnel top

Domestic Appliances

1895

Ring transformer, 1892

Telecommunications

1892

Model smokebox

Domestic Appliances

1895

Zither switch with open-wire multiple and two-motion ratchet drive, 1894

Telecommunications

1894

Model of toilet bowl section

Domestic Appliances

1895

Wooden chest, "South Kensington Lecture Cabinet"

Domestic Appliances

1895

Iron borings coherer (Branly type), 1894

Radio Communication

1894

Model soil stack vent and pipe

Domestic Appliances

1895

Model of hygienic sanitary appliance

Domestic Appliances

1895

Model of hygienic sanitary appliance

Domestic Appliances

1895

Hertzian oscillator, 1890-1894

Radio Communication

1890-1894

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

Telecommunications

1888

Hertzian receiving resonator, 1890-1894

Radio Communication

1890-1894

Flat steel-spring (or watch-spring) coherer, 1894

Radio Communication

1894

Model sink and drainage system

Domestic Appliances

1895