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Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Steam locomotive, 'Bauxite'

1874

NER 0-6-0 '1001' class steam locomotive and tender, No 1275, 1874

1874

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

1878

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

1875-1969, meteorological, aviation & surveying instrument manufacturer, London, England

Short and Mason Limited

1875 - 1969

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Catgut suture

1875

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Early telephone by Alexander Graham Bell, 1877.

1877

1879-current (2020), manufacturer of surgical instruments, London, England

Downs Surgical Limited

1879

Replica of Edison's First Phonograph, 1877.

1877

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Saint's sewing machine, 1874.

1874

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Hansen's Writing Ball, also known as Malling-Hansen Writing Ball

1875-1880

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Set of wheels from Blenkinsop Railway locomotive

1880

Lancashire Loom

circa 1880

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

1934

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

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

1705-1737

Fairlie steam locomotive model

1879

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

1876

Bronze ticket medal for admission and commemoration of the exposition et congres d' Hygiene et de Sauvetage

1876

European celestial globe

1878

Modern Advertising: A Railway Station in 1874

1874

Electrotype replica of a 16th-century mariner’s astrolabe

1580-1588; 1930

1878-1969, mathematical & scientific instrument maker, Manchester & London, England

J Halden and Company Limited

1878 - 1969

c.1880 -1992, stationers; scientific equipment manufacturer, Manchester, England

A G Thornton Limited

1880 - 1992

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

circa 1880

Bell Transmitter with Membrane Diaphragm, 1875-1877

1875-1877

Panorama de Paris

1878

Set of six test tubes with stand, used by Joseph Lister

1875-1878

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915

1880-1995, laboratory equipment manufacturer (chemistry, physics), London, England

A Gallenkamp and Company Limited

1880 - 1995

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

2050-1750 BCE

c. 1875 -1998, manufacturer of ceramics, Burslem, England

Dunn, Bennett and Company Limited

1878 - 1998