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Cotton Bale Breaker

1911

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

1916

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

Replica of 1903 Wright Brothers' aero engine

after 1903

Hand-operated mill for grinding coffee beans

1880-1900

Ring spinning frame

1901

Water pipe from Water Street, Manchester

1890-1899

Device for recording warder patrols in a Lunatic Asylum

1877-1897

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

Model steam locomotive

1890

Full dentures, England, 1890-1900

1890-1900

Powdered graphite microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Five-line single cord switchboard, 1900-1909

1900-1909

Receiving ‘jigger’ used by the Marconi Company, 1899

1899

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

Cut glass perfume bottle with ball-top stopper

1860-1900

Selector switch, 1903

1903

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

1904

Earthenware Phrenological Bust

1860-1896

Strowger automatic telephone, 1901-1910

1901-1910

Impulse sender (dial), 1915

1915

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

1879

Strowger calling dial, 1906

1906

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

1876

Experimental microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Experimental microphones with carbon pencils and cups, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878

Granular microphone in glass tube, 1878-1890

1878-1890

1914-1915 star medal - G F W Keen

1915

Travelling tea case in leather case

1895

Carriage Ashtray from Quintinshill Disaster

1915

Telegraph block instrument, South Eastern Railway

circa 1905

Crossley table telephone, 1879

1879

Stained glass window, Lancashire &Yorkshire Railway

1904-1914

Table instrument with dial, 1903

1903

Model steam locomotive

1882

Silver model of the Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross Station

1867-1868

model sykes lock and block signalling system

1875

Guard's handlamp, Great Northern Railway - Royal Train No.1

1870-1910