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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)

Great Northern Railway brake van

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1887

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

Electronic Components

1889

Chronophotographe double-use camera

Cinematography

1890

West Coast Joint Stock postal sorting van No 186, 1885

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1885

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

Electronic Components

1889

Going North, King's Cross Station

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1893

L&YR locomotive, number 1008

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1889

Industrial Ironworks

Edmund Kregczy

1895

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

Cinematography

1888

Iron borings coherer (Branly type), 1894

Radio Communication

1894

Scutcher

Textile Industry

1889

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

Brake van, London & South Western Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1894

borough market junction signal box

Signalling & Telecommunications

1895

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

Electronic Components

1889

The Demon Detective camera

Photographic Technology

1889

Midland Railway composite carriage

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1885

letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

Telecommunications

1893-4

Model toilet cross section

Domestic Appliances

1895

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

Domestic Appliances

1885-1895

Panhard Levassor 4hp motor car

Road Transport

1894-1895

Model which represents the paddle steamers "Queen Victoria" and the ''Prince of Wales''

Water Transport

1887

Model vertical cylinder fire engine

Firefighting

c. 1885

Spark gap or knob coherer, 1889

Radio Communication

1889

'Sociable' horse drawn carriage

Road Transport

1895

Iron borings coherer (Branly type), 1894

Radio Communication

1894

Crookes' spiral periodic system

Experimental Chemistry

1888

photographic plates

Photographic Technology

c.1888

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

Weighing & Measuring

1890
Original Tesla Induction Motor presented by Tesla to Prof. Ayrton

Original Tesla induction motor, 1887-1888.

Electricity Supply

1887-1888

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

Railway Models

1890

Spirograph and examples of patterns drawn using it

Mathematics

1886

Model pipe with funnel top

Domestic Appliances

1895

Ring transformer, 1892

Telecommunications

1892

Model smokebox

Domestic Appliances

1895

Sixteen lens cine camera by Louis Le Prince

Cinematography

1886-1887

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

Snow plough, North Eastern Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1891

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

Telecommunications

1888

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 receiving resonator, 1890-1894

Radio Communication

1890-1894

Hertzian oscillator, 1890-1894

Radio Communication

1890-1894

Spiral spring coherer, 1890-1894

Radio Communication

1890-1894