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Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

circa 1900

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

Underwood 1 Typewriter, 1897

1897

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Enamel notice, Dinorwic Quarries Railway

1895

London & South Western Railway pathway notice

1896

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

1879

Poured wax doll

circa 1900

Commemorative spade used to turn the first sod of the River Lee Conservancy's new cutting through Horse Shoe Point

1878

Model of fog signal machine and repeater

1900

Model of Robert Duncan's screw propeller, with stern frame and rudder, as fitted to the Egyptian government yacht 'Sareea

1886-1887

Wood-working brace drill, with button-operated latch chuck, 1875-1885

circa 1880

Wooden foreplane, 1900.

1900

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

circa 1897

Bo-Third Rail No D75S

1898

Cape Government locomotive and tender 4-8-0, 1896

1896

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Arithmometer by Elliott Brothers

1885-1894

Marine thermometer by Negretti and Zambra

1890

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Experimental carbon pencil microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Powdered graphite microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Crossley table telephone, 1879

1879

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

1876

Experimental microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878

Experimental carbon block microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Experimental microphones with carbon pencils and cups, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Granular microphone in glass tube, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Coherer with coarse brass turnings, 1894

1894

Receiving ‘jigger’ used by the Marconi Company, 1899

1899

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

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

1899

Spiral spring coherer, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Hertzian receiving resonator, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Hertzian oscillator, 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

English lever escapement watch with Karrusel by S Smith and Son

1897

Anthropomorphic iris root

1891-1900

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

1880-1890

Clear glass specimen jar for turmeric root

1880-1899

Straight spectacles with bifocal perfection lenses

1885-1895

Device for recording warder patrols in a Lunatic Asylum

1877-1897

Meerschaum tobacco pipe

1880-1890