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Watch with complications and minute repeating by Samuel Smith & Son

1899

Holmes' arc lamp from South Foreland Lighthouse, about 1860-80.

1860-1880

Braiding Machine

circa 1900

Tank wagon, North Eastern Railway - Shell-Mex and BP Ltd

1889

Locomotive tender no. 1002, Great Northern Railway

1893

NER 0-6-0 '1001' class steam locomotive and tender, No 1275, 1874

1874

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

1880

Brake van, London & South Western Railway

1894

Pullman Car Company, called Topaz

1913

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

model ger t19 locomotive

1905

Brake composite/observation saloon

1897

model steam locomotive - western railway of france

1901

East Coast Joint Stock passenger brake van

1908

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

1873

Dining Car number 76, London & North Western Railway

1900

Tables of lifetimes, annuities, and premiums

1864

Geometrical Groin Vault, string surface model

1872

Cupriferous sandstone from Schweinkopf

before 1889

Burroughs hand operated adding and listing machine

1913

Felt and Tarrant Comptometer, 1887.

circa 1900

Dowsing 4-bulb electric fire by The Dowsing Radiant Heat Co. Ltd.

1901-1911

Child's Ordinary bicycle (c. 1880)

circa 1880

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

1884

Replica of a hobby-horse cycle

circa 1900

Enfield Carbine Rifle

circa 1860

Lithograph of Daniel Spills Ivorideworks by Daniel Greenaway, 1875

1875

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Jones 50-line switchboard, 1879.

1879

Edison telephone peg switchboard and pegs, 1879

1879

Automatic telephone wall, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Wall telephone using a Blake transmitter, 1880-1890

1880-1890

Wall telephone No. 1, 1900-1911

1900-1911

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Pair of Bell telephones, 1878

1878

Zither switch with open-wire multiple and two-motion ratchet drive, 1894

1894

Strowger step-by-step automatic telephone exchange switch, 1897-1898

1897-1898

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

1878

Hull Corporation telephone, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Telephone receivers with wooden handles, 1877-1902

1877-1902

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

Wall telephone with Blake transmitter, 1880-1900

1880-1900

Bell Transmitter with Membrane Diaphragm, 1875-1877

1875-1877

Crossley telephone receiver, 1880

1880

Filings coherer, Lodge-Muirhead system, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Thomson (Lord Kelvin) double curb transmitter, 1858

1858

Coherer, coarse iron turnings, 1894-1904

1894-1904

Filings coherer, glass tube formed into bulbs at each end at right angles, 1899

1899