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Lumière Cinématographe

Cinematography

c. 1896

Steam locomotive, number 245

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

Underwood 1 Typewriter, 1897

Printing & Writing

1897

Steam locomotive, number 673

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

Strowger step-by-step automatic telephone exchange switch, 1897-1898

Telecommunications

1897-1898

Bo-Third Rail No D75S

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1898

Block instrument (lock and block)

Signalling & Telecommunications

1897

X-ray installation

X-rays

1896-1897

Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

Photographic Technology

c 1897

Brake composite/observation saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1897

Vertical Compound Steam Engine with Hackworth's Valve Gear, 1898

Motive Power

1898

Carding engine

Textile Industry

1896

Bersey electric taxi cab

Road Transport

1897

Section of cross-Channel telephone cable, 1897

Telecommunications

1897

Model of an intercepting trap drain, London, England, 1896

Sewerage & Sanitation

1896

Great Western Railway locomotive headlamp

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1897

Pamphlet, 'Rontgen Rays Demonstration' (photographs by G.H.Gabb)

X-rays

1896

Karl Ferdinand Braun's 'Braun tube', 1897

Electronic Components

1897

Demeny-Gaumont chronophotograph camera/projector

Cinematography

c. 1898

Hank Winding Machine

Textile Industry

1897

Great Western Railway locomotive headlamp

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1897

Receiving ‘jigger’ used by the Marconi Company, 1898

Radio Communication

1898

Platt Brothers Notice

Textile Industry

1898

English lever escapement watch with Karrusel by S Smith and Son

Clockmakers

1897

Portrait of the Reverand Henry Nelthropp MA, FSA (1820 – 1901)

Clockmakers

1896

Model of a channel pipe, London, England, 1896

Sewerage & Sanitation

1896

Portrait bust of Lord Kelvin, 1896

Telecommunications

1896

A T & T national telephone directory, October 1896

Telecommunications

1896

Model of a drain pipe, London, England, 1896

Sewerage & Sanitation

1896

East Coast Joint Stock, 3rd Class railway carriage, 1898

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1898

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2000-1001 BCE

Foot x-ray photograph by George Hugh Gabb

X-rays

1896-02-15

great western railway royal cigarette case

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1897

Filings coherer, glass tube bent at 45-degree angle at one end to form side-pocket, 1898

Radio Communication

1898

Foot x-ray photograph taken by George Hugh Gabb

X-rays

1896-02-15

22 volt ringing generator

Telecommunications

1896

Hand x-ray photograph taken by George Hugh Gabb

X-rays

1896-02-15

Filings coherer, glass tube, 1898

Radio Communication

1898

Hand-held stereoscopic viewer

Photographic Technology

c.1896

filings coherer, small glass tube with bulb at one end and cap of red sealing wax at other end, 1898

Radio Communication

1898

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

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

Illustrated Programme of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee Procession

Cinematography

June 1897

'Photo-rotoscope' 35mm projector mechanism

Cinematography

1896

Diamond Jubilee brick

Coal Mining

1897 c.

Gramophone by HMV, 1897.

Sound Reproduction

1897

Rectangular Vesta matchbox

Plastics and Modern Materials

1897

Lu-Mi-Num Safety Bicycle

Road Transport

1896

Birtac cine camera/projector

Cinematography

1898

Brown & Sharpe automatic lathe

Hand and Machine Tools

c. 1897

De Dion Bouton motor tricycle

Road Transport

1898