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Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

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

1897-1898

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

Model of fog signal machine and repeater

1900

Novelty model

1955; 1830

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

circa 1880

X-ray tube

1895-1899

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

Walnut and brass model of the "Great Paris Telescope"

1898-1900

Wooden foreplane, 1900.

1900

Poster for Magni & C. Vicenza, printed by G Ricordi & C Milano c1900

circa 1900

Poured wax doll

circa 1900

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Model vertical cylinder fire engine

circa 1885

Sample of Acid Yellow Dye

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Water Pipe

1890 - 1900

Copper ore from the Bell Mine

before 1889

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

before 1889

A T & T national telephone directory, October 1896

1896

Syntonic Leyden jars, 1880-1889

1880-1889

Morse tape on which signals were recorded by means of a coherer, 1900

1900

Coherer, ebonite, with adjustable contacts, 1890-1896

1890-1896

Hertzian oscillator, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Mystery watch by Armand Schwob & Frère

1900

Enamel watch depicting the Virgin and Child

1880

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Full dentures, England, 1890-1900

1890-1900

Anthropomorphic iris root

1891-1900

Clear glass specimen jar for turmeric root

1880-1899

Straight spectacles with bifocal perfection lenses

1885-1895

Meerschaum tobacco pipe

1880-1890

Water pipe from Water Street, Manchester

1890-1899

Bo-Third Rail No D75S

1898

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

1896

Arithmometer by Elliott Brothers

1885-1894

Light-bulb, filament, carbon

About 1890

Marine thermometer by Negretti and Zambra

1890

Crossley table telephone, 1879

1879

National Telephone Company directory, 1898-1899

1898-1899

Coherer with coarse brass turnings, 1894

1894

Receiving ‘jigger’ used by the Marconi Company, 1899

1899

Filings coherer, Lodge pattern, 1895-1900

1895-1900