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Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Set of wheels from Blenkinsop Railway locomotive

1880

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Gold watch with tourbillon by Girard Perregaux

1879

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Enamel watch depicting the Virgin and Child

1880

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

1879

Mantel clock, presented to T.W. Worsdell - Great Eastern Railway

circa 1885

Model vertical cylinder fire engine

circa 1885

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

1878

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

circa 1880

Brass worksplate no 917, Manning Wardle & Co

1884

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Model steam locomotive, North Eastern Railway

1884

Model steam locomotive

1882

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

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

1886-1887

Silver medal, commemorates the International Health Exhibition

1884

Model ground signal, North London Railway

1888

Wise's Patent Train Staff

1886

Fairlie steam locomotive model

1879

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Crossley table telephone, 1879

1879

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878

Child's Ordinary bicycle (c. 1880)

circa 1880

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

1884

Spagnoletti intermediate signalling instrument

1885

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1934

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Bezel wind wrist watch, c.1880

circa 1880

Saw bench

1879

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Plaster model of a human eye, France, 1884

1884

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Lancashire Loom

circa 1880

Jones 50-line switchboard, 1879.

1879

Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

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

1705-1737

Edison telephone peg switchboard and pegs, 1879

1879

Watch by Sir John Bennett

1884

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

1880