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James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Circular electric hot plate for domestic cooking

1892-1900

Hand-operated mill for grinding coffee beans

1880-1900

Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

circa 1900

Platt Brothers Notice

1898

Platt Brothers Notice

1899

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

Enamel notice, Dinorwic Quarries Railway

1895

London & South Western Railway pathway notice

1896

Wolferton station master hand lamp

1870-1880

Model of the Lowe-Vansittart Screw Propeller Blades

1869

Water pipe from Water Street, Manchester

1890-1899

Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860

1855-1860

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

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

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

1880-1890

National Telephone Company directory, 1898-1899

1898-1899

A T & T national telephone directory, October 1896

1896

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Syntonic Leyden jars, 1880-1889

1880-1889

Wine glass possibly used as a culture glass by Joseph Lister

1860-1877

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Hertzian receiving resonator, 1890-1894

1890-1894

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

Coherer, ebonite, with adjustable contacts, 1890-1896

1890-1896

Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

1858-03-02

Full dentures, England, 1890-1900

1890-1900

Powdered graphite microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Wine glass possibly used as a culture glass by Joseph Lister

1860-1877

Cut glass bottle with deeply incised decoration

1860-1900

Experimental carbon pencil microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Duchenne's Late C19 Magneto Electric Therapy Machine

1860-1900

Ring transformer, 1892

1892

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Earthenware Phrenological Bust

1860-1896

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

1870-1881

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

1879

Morse tape on which signals were recorded by means of a coherer, 1900

1900

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

1857-1858

Hertzian oscillator, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Replica of Bell's 1876 'iron-box' receiver, 1959

1876

Sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

1866

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

1867