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Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

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

1898

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

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

1898

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

Experimental microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Experimental microphones with carbon pencils and cups, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Granular microphone in glass tube, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Travelling tea case in leather case

1895

Enamel notice, Dinorwic Quarries Railway

1895

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Brass worksplate no 517, Manning Wardle & Co

1875

Brass worksplate no 917, Manning Wardle & Co

1884

London & North Western Railway steam locomotive 'Pet' 0-4-0ST

1865

John Ellis

1858

Wise's Patent Train Staff

1886

Cape Government locomotive and tender 4-8-0, 1896

1896

Water from the River Jordan

1881

Powdered graphite microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Experimental carbon pencil microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Stirling single locomotive wheel casting pattern, Great Northern Railway

1870

Mantel clock, presented to T.W. Worsdell - Great Eastern Railway

circa 1885

Light-bulb, filament, carbon

About 1890

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Coherer with coarse brass turnings, 1894

1894

Stock Exchange automatic telegraph, 1872-1880

1872-1880

Hertzian receiving resonator, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Experimental transmitting ‘jigger’ used by the Marconi Company, 1899

1899

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

1898

Receiving ‘jigger’ used by the Marconi Company, 1899

1899

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Filings coherer, glass tube formed into T-shape at one end and bent round into U-shape at other end with bulb, 1899

1899

Spiral spring coherer, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878

Filings coherer, Lodge pattern, 1895-1900

1895-1900

Crossley table telephone, 1879

1879

Wooden foreplane, 1900.

1900

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

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

Hand-operated mill for grinding coffee beans

1880-1900

Sugar nippers, 19th century.

1880-1900

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

One of four original Swan and Raven models

1867