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Circular electric hot plate for domestic cooking

1892-1900

Hand-operated mill for grinding coffee beans

1880-1900

Cotton Bale Breaker

1911

Wrapping block

circa 1920

Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

circa 1900

Platt Brothers Notice

1898

Platt Brothers Notice

1899

Woollen shawl

1880-1920

Replica of 1903 Wright Brothers' aero engine

after 1903

War memorial plaque, South Eastern & Chatham Railway

1914

Enamel notice, Dinorwic Quarries Railway

1895

London & South Western Railway pathway notice

1896

Ring spinning frame

1901

Water pipe from Water Street, Manchester

1890-1899

Telephone crossbar switch, Swedish Ericsson, 1921

1921

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Wall telephone, 1880-1920

1880-1920

Experimental carbon block microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

De Forest audion 1906-1915

1906-1915

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

1880-1890

Steljes ABC type printing telegraph receiver No. 477

1895-1910

National Telephone Company directory, 1898-1899

1898-1899

Marconi coherer and Admiralty pattern decoherer, 1900-1910

1900-1910

A T & T national telephone directory, October 1896

1896

Mechanical telephone, 1880-1920

1880-1920

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Syntonic Leyden jars, 1880-1889

1880-1889

Magneto-ringing Ericsson telephone, 1892-1920

1892-1920

Hertzian receiving resonator, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Carved wooden fetish doll or "Akua Mma"

1890-1910

Copper plaque stamped with a Latin cross for protection against cholera

1900-1909

De Forest syntoniser, 1902-1907

1902-1907

Coherer, ebonite, with adjustable contacts, 1890-1896

1890-1896

Full dentures, England, 1890-1900

1890-1900

Morse key with send-receive switch, 1900-1920

1900-1920

Powdered graphite microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Protective leather and chain mail mask

1917-1918

Specimens of Pacific cable in glazed presentation case, 1902-1923

1902-1923

Five-line single cord switchboard, 1900-1909

1900-1909

Galvanic brooch

1880-1920

Experimental carbon pencil microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Selector switch, 1903

1903

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

1904

Ring transformer, 1892

1892

Framed poster advocating vaccination against smallpox

1923

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Strowger automatic telephone, 1901-1910

1901-1910

Impulse sender (dial), 1915

1915