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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

Silver medal, commemorates the International Health Exhibition

1884

Circular electric hot plate for domestic cooking

1892-1900

Hand-operated mill for grinding coffee beans

1880-1900

Sugar nippers, 19th century.

1880-1900

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

Ring spinning frame

1901

Water pipe from Water Street, Manchester

1890-1899

Marine thermometer by Negretti and Zambra

1890

Billi condenser used for aerial tuning in Newfoundland, 1901

1901

Device for recording warder patrols in a Lunatic Asylum

1877-1897

Coherer with coarse brass turnings, 1894

1894

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Stock Exchange automatic telegraph, 1872-1880

1872-1880

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

Syntonic Leyden jars, 1880-1889

1880-1889

Hertzian receiving resonator, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Model steam locomotive

1890

Coherer, ebonite, with adjustable contacts, 1890-1896

1890-1896

Full dentures, England, 1890-1900

1890-1900

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

1899

Powdered graphite microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

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

Experimental carbon pencil microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Ring transformer, 1892

1892

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Aerial inductances, 1901

1901

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

1879

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

1899

Morse tape on which signals were recorded by means of a coherer, 1900

1900

Hertzian oscillator, 1890-1894

1890-1894

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

Spiral spring coherer, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878

Filings coherer, Lodge pattern, 1895-1900

1895-1900