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Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Lancashire Loom

circa 1880

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Child's Ordinary bicycle (c. 1880)

circa 1880

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

1878

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Mains cable from power stations in London, around 1890

1890

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Tower's handcuffs

1882-1890

Parsons' steam turbine generator, 1884

1884

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

1879

Model steam locomotive

1882

Brass worksplate no 917, Manning Wardle & Co

1884

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

circa 1885

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

1878

Model ground signal, North London Railway

1888

model steam locomotive

1890

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

circa 1880

Wise's Patent Train Staff

1886

Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

Model steam locomotive, North Eastern Railway

1884

Model steam locomotive

1890

Light-bulb, filament, carbon

About 1890

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Gold watch with tourbillon by Girard Perregaux

1879

Silver medal, commemorates the International Health Exhibition

1884

Fairlie steam locomotive model

1879

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Model vertical cylinder fire engine

circa 1885

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

1886-1887

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Copper ore from the Bell Mine

before 1889

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

before 1889

Enamel watch depicting the Virgin and Child

1880

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Sample of Acid Yellow Dye

circa 1890

Marine thermometer by Negretti and Zambra

1890