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Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

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

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

1879

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

1878

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

The Demon Detective camera

1889

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

Spiral spring coherer, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Hertzian receiving resonator, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Hertzian oscillator, 1890-1894

1890-1894

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

1880-1890

Straight spectacles with bifocal perfection lenses

1885-1895

Meerschaum tobacco pipe

1880-1890

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Shoehorn made from Rescued Brass from Thirsk Disaster

1892

Model steam locomotive, North Eastern Railway

1884

Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

Silver medal, commemorates the International Health Exhibition

1884

Brass worksplate no 917, Manning Wardle & Co

1884

Full size wooden model of Beloe's double rail and chair

1877

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Model vertical cylinder fire engine

circa 1885

Copper ore from the Bell Mine

before 1889

Arsenical cobalt or skutterudite, from Skutterude, near Modum, Norway

before 1889

Light-bulb, filament, carbon

About 1890

Syntonic Leyden jars, 1880-1889

1880-1889

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Gold watch with tourbillon by Girard Perregaux

1879

Ring transformer, 1892

1892

Enamel watch depicting the Virgin and Child

1880

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE