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Edison Kinetoscope

Cinematography

1894

Chronophotographe double-use camera

Cinematography

1890

Going North, King's Cross Station

Pictorial Collection (Railway)

1893

Iron borings coherer (Branly type), 1894

Radio Communication

1894

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

letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

Telecommunications

1893-4

Iron borings coherer (Branly type), 1894

Radio Communication

1894

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

Weighing & Measuring

1890

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

Railway Models

1890

Ring transformer, 1892

Telecommunications

1892

Snow plough, North Eastern Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1891

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

Telecommunications

1894

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

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

Radio Communication

1894

dye sample

Industrial Chemistry

c.1890

Magneto HMT wall telephone

Telecommunications

c.1890

Sample of Acid Yellow Dye

Industrial Chemistry

c.1890

Ottawa & Gatineau Valley Railway commemorative salver

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1893

dye sample

Industrial Chemistry

c.1890

paper tensile tester

Papermaking

c.1890

Coherer with coarse brass turnings, 1894

Radio Communication

1894

Drawing instrument set

Mathematics

c1890

Presentation scissors, SS Vienna

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1894

dye sample

Industrial Chemistry

c.1890

Anglo-German telegraph cable

Telecommunications

1891

dye sample

Industrial Chemistry

c.1890

dye sample

Industrial Chemistry

c.1890

dye sample

Industrial Chemistry

c.1890

linecasting machine

Printing & Writing

c.1892

Poster for 'Pantomimes Lumineuses'

Cinematography

1892

Radial Flow Parson's Turbine Engines

Marine Engines

1894

model steam locomotive

Railway Models

1890

model ner tennant locomotive

Railway Models

1890

Berliner gramophone

Sound Reproduction

1890

Wooden commemorative plaque, Thirsk 1892, North Eastern Railway

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1892

Tippler Toilet

Water Supply & Sanitation

1890

Magic lantern projector with s

Photographic Technology

c.1890

Holborn, London

Photographs

c. 1890

Vertical Steam Engine, 1891

Motive Power

1891
Edison Kinetophone (or Phonokinetoscope); Kinetoscope with cylinder phonograph, an early attempt at creating a sound-film system; early motion picture exhibition device, designed for films to be viewed individually through an aperture on the top of the cabinet.

Edison Kinetophone (or Phonokinetoscope)

Cinematography

1894

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE

William Friese-Greene's Stereo Cine Camera

Cinematography

c. 1890

Woman in a rowing boat

Photographs

c. 1890

Smith & Coventry capstan lathe

Hand and Machine Tools

c.1890

Kodak No 1 Camera

Photographic Technology

c. 1891
Steam locomotive and tender, North Eastern Railway, 4-4-0 No.1621, designed by Wilson Worsdell, built at Gateshead in 1893, withdrawn in 1945.

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 1621

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1893

Prince Bonaparte's collection of elements

Experimental Chemistry

1801-1892 (prepared)