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

1901-1911

Child's Ordinary bicycle (c. 1880)

circa 1880

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Replica of a hobby-horse cycle

circa 1900

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Openshaw-type artifcial hand, Birmingham, England, 1916-1918

1916-1918

Lithograph of Daniel Spills Ivorideworks by Daniel Greenaway, 1875

1875

horological gravers

1870-1900

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

1705-1737

Model of LNWR Third Class railway carriage

1907-1917

Model of LNWR Third Class railway carriage

1907-1917

SS Dewsbury worksplate

1910

Carriage key

1875-1890

Glass-stoppered bottle containing uranium

1801-1892 (prepared); 1946 (element replaced)

General Electric CA101 Pilotron triode (McVitie Weston valve collection), 1918

1918

Jones 50-line switchboard, 1879.

1879

Edison telephone peg switchboard and pegs, 1879

1879

Automatic telephone wall, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Wall telephone No. 1, 1900-1911

1900-1911

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

1894

Amplifying valve type V24, 1920-1922

1920-1922

Ora wireless receiving triode, 1921

1921

Strowger two-motion selector with vertical mount, 1903-1920

1903-1920

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

1878

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

Bell Transmitter with Membrane Diaphragm, 1875-1877

1875-1877

Bas-relief head and shoulders of Guglielmo Marconi, 1903

1903

Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934

1934

Billi condenser used for aerial tuning in Newfoundland, 1901

1901

Receiving ‘jigger’ used by the Marconi Company, 1898

1898

Embossing telegraph receiver 1878-1900

1878-1900

Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877

1870-1877

Horseshoe magnet and keep used with experimental form of magnetic detector, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Portrait bust of Lord Kelvin, 1896

1896

Branly tripod coherer, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Watch by Waltham with a Dennison case

1904

Watch by Sir John Bennett

1884

Chronometer escapement in domed glazed case by William T. Heyes

1903

Watch with complications and minute repeating by Samuel Smith & Son

1899

Ear trumpet and walking stick combined

1875-1885

Model of human eye

1870

Wooden divination board

1880-1920

Wooden mask

1871-1900

Double duck-billed speculum

1871-1900

Glass feeding bottle, London, England, 1901-1918

1901-1920

Bottle of Hunyadi Janos mineral water, unopened

1900-1920

Galvanic brooch

1880-1920

Artificial arm, below-elbow prosthesis

1895-1904

Composition pestle and mortar

1870-1901

Alarm whistle for use by psychiatric warders

1890-1914