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James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

"Stebull" box shaped electric hair dryer

1920-1940

Hand-operated mill for grinding coffee beans

1880-1900

Medal commemorating first free balloon stratospheric flight of Professor Auguste Piccard and Dr. Paul Kipfer

1931

Cotton Bale Breaker

1911

Roving frame

1927

Wrapping block

circa 1920

Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

circa 1900

Platt Brothers Notice

1898

Platt Brothers Notice

1899

Woollen shawl

1880-1920

Replica of 1903 Wright Brothers' aero engine

after 1903

"Flammenwolf U" electric firelighter (German c.1935)

1935

War memorial plaque, South Eastern & Chatham Railway

1914

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

cane presented to Mr. Sidney Foreman for his first-aid work at the Charfield railway disaster

1924

Model of the Lowe-Vansittart Screw Propeller Blades

1869

Ring spinning frame

1901

Water pipe from Water Street, Manchester

1890-1899

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

Leather truncheon used at Narborough Mental Asylum

1901-1930

Filter used to produce radioactive water

1901-1930

Bottle of medicinal water from La Rampe

1920-1928

Amplion loud speaker with wooden horn, 1925

1925

Straight horn loudspeaker, 1921-1926

1921-1926

Carved wooden fetish doll or "Akua Mma"

1890-1910

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Copper plaque stamped with a Latin cross for protection against cholera

1900-1909

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

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

"Airway" vacuum cleaner, c.1930

1930

Galvanic brooch

1880-1920

Cut glass bottle with deeply incised decoration

1860-1900

Duchenne's Late C19 Magneto Electric Therapy Machine

1860-1900

Chromolithograph: Amalgamated Society of Engineers Machinists ... by Blades

1904

Wireless World Diary, 1933

1933

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

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

1879

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

1857-1858

Hertzian oscillator, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Pair of metal-rimmed spectacles with wire mesh protecters

1891-1920

Sample of four-core telegraph cable connecting Vancouver Island with the mainland

1904