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Column dial by Henry Robert

1831-1870

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Charles Green Aeronaut

1836

Hand loom

1825-1835

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Wrought iron coffee mill with circular lidded hopper

1850-1900

Sample of Acid Yellow Dye

circa 1890

Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

circa 1900

Platt Brothers Notice

1898

Platt Brothers Notice

1899

East Indiaman Herefordshire

1815

Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

1850-1856

Colour lithograph of the S.S. 'Great Eastern'

1850-1859

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

Silver medal, commemorates the International Health Exhibition

1884

Circular white metal medal

1830-1900

Circular electric hot plate for domestic cooking

1892-1900

Hand-operated mill for grinding coffee beans

1880-1900

Sugar nippers, 19th century.

1880-1900

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

Water pipe from Water Street, Manchester

1890-1899

Marine thermometer by Negretti and Zambra

1890

Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860

1855-1860

Device for recording warder patrols in a Lunatic Asylum

1877-1897

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

1845

horological gravers

1850-1900

Coherer with coarse brass turnings, 1894

1894

Sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Stock Exchange automatic telegraph, 1872-1880

1872-1880

Experimental carbon block microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

'Pock-marked faces: A curious illusion', anti-vaccination leaflet

1880-1890

horological file

1850-1900

National Telephone Company directory, 1898-1899

1898-1899

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

A T & T national telephone directory, October 1896

1896

Pair of dental forceps

1820-1855

Wheatstone automatic tape transmitter, 1840-1860

1840-1860

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Syntonic Leyden jars, 1880-1889

1880-1889

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Horological gravers with an oval profile

1850-1900

Wine glass possibly used as a culture glass by Joseph Lister

1860-1877

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Stipple-engraved portrait of Benjamin Martin

1815