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Edison Kinetoscope

Cinematography

1894

Iron borings coherer (Branly type), 1894

Radio Communication

1894

Brake van, London & South Western Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1894

Iron borings coherer (Branly type), 1894

Radio Communication

1894

Model of steam yacht 'Giralda'

Water Transport

1894

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

Telecommunications

1894

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

Radio Communication

1894

Presentation scissors, SS Vienna

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1894

Radial Flow Parson's Turbine Engines

Marine Engines

1894

Coherer with coarse brass turnings, 1894

Radio Communication

1894

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

Hong Kong plague medal, England, 1894

Wellcome Medals

1894

Single-cylinder Oil Engine

Motive Power

1894

Spherical nickel plated brass Troy weight

Weighing & Measuring

1894

Hertzian oscillator, 1894

Radio Communication

1894

Oil jar, Egypt, 1580-1350BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1350 BCE
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

Henrici's harmonic analyser, No 3, 1894.

Mathematics

1894

Artificial right leg, England, 1894

Orthopaedics

1894

Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Fay Sholes typewriter

Printing & Writing

c. 1894

Two iron boring coherers (Branly type), 1894

Radio Communication

1894

Mummy of a crocodile, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Model of a manual fire engine

Firefighting

1894
Tender plate, LNER, "London & North Eastern Railway, 8096, Gateshead Works 1894", brass, oval, ex 0-6-0 Class J21.

london & north eastern railway gateshead tender plate

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1894
'Magic Photoret' pocket watch detective camera for 2 inch diameter circular film, six exposures, 12 x 12mm. Pinhole lens rotating shutter, single speed, hole for pin stop as for time exposure, Circular film held in back of camera front rotates to six positions. Patents July 25th 1893 Nov 28. 1893. Magic introduction company. 1894. Designer William K L Dickson. Takes six hexagonal photographs on a 'disc' of film.

'Magic Photoret' detective camera

Photographic Technology

1894

Concave Rowland diffraction grating on speculum me

Optics

1894

s' Gravesande Ring and Ball, 1894

Heat

1894 (apparatus); 1742 (date of experiment)

Model of Murdock's steam locomotive

Road Transport

1894

Wolfmuller Petrol Motor Bicycle, 1894

Road Transport

1894

Memorial stele to the doorkeepr Ruma

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Stone slab with seven holes for cosmetic ointments, Egypt, 1991-1786 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

1991-1786 BCE

Uterine probe, Playfair, aluminium

Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Contraception

1901-950
Welsbach-Kern gas radiator, with fuel, c.1894

Welsbach-Kern gas radiator, with fuel, c.1894

Domestic Appliances

1894

Square pavement brick from Babylonia (Southern Iraq), 2nd millennium BC.

Building Construction

2000-1001 BCE

Differential Air Thermometer, 1894

Heat

1894

Baudot Distributor for Printing Telegraph

Telecommunications

1894

Hong Kong plague medal, England, 1894

Wellcome Medals

1894

Street scene

Photographs

c. 1894

Concave Rowland diffraction grating on speculum me

Optics

1894
Cast iron notice, Furness Railway, 'Caution to Trespassers', white letters on black background

Cast iron notice, Furness Railway

Railway Infrastructure

1894

Tangent galvanometer, Gaugain pattern (Helmholtz?)

Electricity and Magnetism

1894
Ship's bell, brass, Great Eastern Railway, inscribed "S.S. Amsterdam", from the Twin-Screw Steamship Amsterdam I, built by Earle's Company Ltd, Hull, 1894 and withdrawn 1928.

Ship's Bell for SS Amsterdam

Railway Shipping

1894
Locomotive worksplate, brass, Sharp Stewart & Co No 4046 of 1894, ex Barry Docks & Railway "B1" class 0-6-2T No 75 (Great Western Railway No 257), withdrawn 8/1945.

Worksplate, Sharp Stewart & Co

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1894

Door of case for Aron self-winding electric clock

Time Measurement

invented 1892-1894

Tutton's goniometer, for cutting, grinding and polishing minerals

Optics

1894

Bell Double Pole Post Office Telephone Receiver (c

Electricity and Magnetism

1894

Water turbine and generator

Motive Power

1894
Worksplate, "Craven Brothers Manchester Limited, 50 tons 1894". From crane. Brass oval. 33"x23"

Craven Brothers Manchester Limited worksplate

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1894

Imperial capacity measure

Weighing & Measuring

1894