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Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Wine glass possibly used as a culture glass by Joseph Lister

1860-1877

Silver model of the Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross Station

1867-1868

Model steam

1899

Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849

1849

Two copper and zinc chains, France, 1855-1870

1855-1870

Enamel notice, Dinorwic Quarries Railway

1895

London & South Western Railway pathway notice

1896

Wolferton station master hand lamp

1870-1880

Circular electric hot plate for domestic cooking

1892-1900

Hand-operated mill for grinding coffee beans

1880-1900

Sugar nippers, 19th century.

1880-1900

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Copper ore from the Bell Mine

before 1889

One of four original Swan and Raven models

1867

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

1867

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Arithmometer by Elliott Brothers

1885-1894

X-ray tube

1895-1899

Single needle telegraph, 1846

1846

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Stroh's type-printer for Wheatstone ABC communicator, 1870-1881

1870-1881

Syntonic Leyden jars, 1880-1889

1880-1889

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Henley's magneto electric double needle telegraph, 1848-1852

1848-1852

Hertzian receiving resonator, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Spiral spring coherer, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

Silver medal, commemorates the International Health Exhibition

1884

Wrought iron coffee mill with circular lidded hopper

1850-1900

Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

circa 1900

Platt Brothers Notice

1898

Platt Brothers Notice

1899

Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

1850-1856

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

1850-1859

Water pipe from Water Street, Manchester

1890-1899

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

1880-1890

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Full dentures, England, 1890-1900

1890-1900

Wine glass possibly used as a culture glass by Joseph Lister

1860-1877

Cut glass bottle with deeply incised decoration

1860-1900

Duchenne's Late C19 Magneto Electric Therapy Machine

1860-1900

Earthenware Phrenological Bust

1860-1896

Engraving: Watt's first experiment. Marcus Stone ARA pinxt; Herbert Bourne sculpt; published by Appleton & Co

1879

Lithograph, Chronological pictures of English History

1850-1859

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853