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Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Fowler's phrenological head

1879-1896

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Device for recording warder patrols in a Lunatic Asylum

1877-1897

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Bo-Third Rail No D75S

1898

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

1884

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

1897-1898

Pasteur-Chamberland-type water filter

1884-1900

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Ceramic tile map of North Eastern Railway

circa 1900

Bird cage from Sussex Lunatic Asylum

1872

Electrogalvanic amulet

1880-1900

'Over London-by Rail', Engraving, London, England, 1872

1872

Enamel notice, Dinorwic Quarries Railway

1895

London & South Western Railway pathway notice

1896

Model of fog signal machine and repeater

1900

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

Arithmometer by Elliott Brothers

1885-1894

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Crossley table telephone, 1879

1879

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

1876

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878

Coherer with coarse brass turnings, 1894

1894

Filings coherer, Lodge pattern, 1895-1900

1895-1900

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

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

1898

Ring transformer, 1892

1892

English lever escapement watch with Karrusel by S Smith and Son

1897

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

1876

'Pock-marked faces: A curious illusion', anti-vaccination leaflet

1880-1890

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Catgut suture

1875

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

1898

Shoehorn made from Rescued Brass from Thirsk Disaster

1892

Model steam locomotive, North Eastern Railway

1884

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

circa 1885

Platt Brothers Notice

1898

Platt Brothers Notice

1899

Fairlie steam locomotive model

1879

Hank Winding Machine

1897

Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

circa 1900

Experimental carbon block microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Powdered graphite microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Experimental carbon pencil microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Experimental microphones with carbon pencils and cups, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Hertzian receiving resonator, 1890-1894

1890-1894