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Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Light-bulb, filament, carbon

About 1890

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Marine thermometer by Negretti and Zambra

1890

Model vertical cylinder fire engine

circa 1885

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Locomotive tender no. 1002, Great Northern Railway

1893

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

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

1879

model steam locomotive

1890

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

circa 1880

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Gold watch with tourbillon by Girard Perregaux

1879

Wise's Patent Train Staff

1886

Model steam locomotive

1882

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

circa 1885

Model ground signal, North London Railway

1888

Model steam locomotive

1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Sample of Acid Yellow Dye

circa 1890

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

1886-1887

Moldacot pocket sewing machine, 1887.

1886-1887

Copper ore from the Bell Mine

before 1889

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

before 1889

Syntonic Leyden jars, 1880-1889

1880-1889

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Enamel watch depicting the Virgin and Child

1880

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Ring transformer, 1892

1892

Arithmometer by Elliott Brothers

1885-1894

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

Crossley table telephone, 1879

1879

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

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