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Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

The Demon Detective camera

1889

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

1896

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

1897-1898

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Fowler's phrenological head

1879-1896

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Bersey Electric Taxi Cab

1897

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

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

1879

Brass worksplate no 917, Manning Wardle & Co

1884

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

1878

Model steam

1899

model steam locomotive

1890

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

Enamel notice, Dinorwic Quarries Railway

1895

London & South Western Railway pathway notice

1896

Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

circa 1897

Silver medal, commemorates the International Health Exhibition

1884

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

1877

Fairlie steam locomotive model

1879

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

X-ray tube

1895-1899

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

Experimental microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Experimental carbon block microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Experimental microphones with carbon pencils and cups, 1878-1890

1878-1890

National Telephone Company directory, 1898-1899

1898-1899

Granular microphone in glass tube, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Coherer with coarse brass turnings, 1894

1894

Syntonic Leyden jars, 1880-1889

1880-1889

Filings coherer, glass tube formed into T-shape at one end and bent round into U-shape at other end with bulb, 1899

1899

Coherer, ebonite, with adjustable contacts, 1890-1896

1890-1896

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