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Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

1884

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

1705-1737

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

Brass worksplate no 917, Manning Wardle & Co

1884

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Copper ore from the Bell Mine

before 1889

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

before 1889

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Enamel watch depicting the Virgin and Child

1880

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Wise's Patent Train Staff

1886

Model steam locomotive, North Eastern Railway

1884

Model steam locomotive

1882

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

circa 1885

Model ground signal, North London Railway

1888

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

circa 1880

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

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Model vertical cylinder fire engine

circa 1885

Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

Syntonic Leyden jars, 1880-1889

1880-1889

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Tailboard, North Eastern Railway

1880

Set of wheels from Blenkinsop Railway locomotive

1880

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Great Western Railway splasher plate

1889

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Tank wagon, North Eastern Railway - Shell-Mex and BP Ltd

1889

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

1880

Cupriferous sandstone from Schweinkopf

before 1889

Child's Ordinary bicycle (c. 1880)

circa 1880

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

Crossley telephone receiver, 1880

1880

Watch by Sir John Bennett

1884

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Spagnoletti intermediate signalling instrument

1885

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Lancashire Loom

circa 1880

Plaster model of a human eye, France, 1884

1884