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Brake van, London & South Western Railway

1894

Burndept mark IV tuner with glass back, 1922-1923

1922-1923

Wall telephone No. 1, 1900-1911

1900-1911

Amplifying valve type V24, 1920-1922

1920-1922

Ora wireless receiving triode, 1921

1921

Strowger two-motion selector with vertical mount, 1903-1920

1903-1920

Hull Corporation telephone, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Burndept Ultra IV wireless receiver, glass back No. 4798, 1923

1923

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

1934

Billi condenser used for aerial tuning in Newfoundland, 1901

1901

Branly tripod coherer, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Set of 8 brass handled

1890

Iron borings coherer (Branly type), 1894

1894

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

1705-1737

Model of LNWR Third Class railway carriage

1907-1917

Model of LNWR Third Class railway carriage

1907-1917

SS Dewsbury worksplate

1910

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Cupriferous sandstone from Schweinkopf

before 1889

Burroughs hand operated adding and listing machine

1913

Felt and Tarrant Comptometer, 1887.

circa 1900

Comptometer by Felt and Tarrant Mfg. Co. Chicago

1915-1920

Child's china tea plate, 1922-1923

1922-1923

General Electric CA101 Pilotron triode (McVitie Weston valve collection), 1918

1918

Card of Authority to use portable receiver, 1922

1922

Automatic telephone wall, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Wall telephone using a Blake transmitter, 1880-1890

1880-1890

Experimental Form 1 (Licence to use Wireless Telegraph), 1905

1905

Zither switch with open-wire multiple and two-motion ratchet drive, 1894

1894

Section of cross-Channel telephone cable, 1897

1897

Popular Wireless no. 1 vol. 1, 1922

1922

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

Wall telephone with Blake transmitter, 1880-1900

1880-1900

Cossor Wurncell W.1 output triode valve (McVitie Weston valve collection), 1923

1923

C.W. transmitter/receiver, Mk.1, 1917

1917

Crossley telephone receiver, 1880

1880

Filings coherer, Lodge-Muirhead system, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Coherer, coarse iron turnings, 1894-1904

1894-1904

Filings coherer, glass tube formed into bulbs at each end at right angles, 1899

1899

Double coherer (experimental), 1895-1906

1895-1906

Filings coherer, glass tube, 1898

1898

Copper earthing tube believed to have been used by Marconi, 1890-1897

1890-1897

Receiving ‘jigger’ used by the Marconi Company, 1898

1898

Flat steel-spring (or watch-spring) coherer, 1894

1894

Filings coherer, small glass tube with bulb at one end, 1894-1904

1894-1904

Filings coherer, glass tube capped at ends, 1894-1904

1894-1904

Thirty-inch terrestial globe showing cable routes, 1900-1920

1900-1920

Filings coherer, glass tube bent at 45-degree angle at one end to form side-pocket, 1898

1898

Coherer, with steel needle inside part-wound with copper wire, 1894-1904

1894-1904