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Addac adding machine

1926

Circular electric hot plate for domestic cooking

1892-1900

Hand-operated mill for grinding coffee beans

1880-1900

Medal commemorating first free balloon stratospheric flight of Professor Auguste Piccard and Dr. Paul Kipfer

1931

Cotton Bale Breaker

1911

Roving frame

1927

Wrapping block

circa 1920

Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

circa 1900

Platt Brothers Notice

1898

Platt Brothers Notice

1899

Woollen shawl

1880-1920

Replica of 1903 Wright Brothers' aero engine

after 1903

Demonstration radio receiver

1926

War memorial plaque, South Eastern & Chatham Railway

1914

Enamel notice, Dinorwic Quarries Railway

1895

London & South Western Railway pathway notice

1896

cane presented to Mr. Sidney Foreman for his first-aid work at the Charfield railway disaster

1924

Ring spinning frame

1901

Water pipe from Water Street, Manchester

1890-1899

Telephone crossbar switch, Swedish Ericsson, 1921

1921

Desk telephone transmitter and receiver (sectioned), 1926.

1926

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Wall telephone, 1880-1920

1880-1920

De Forest audion 1906-1915

1906-1915

'Pock-marked faces: A curious illusion', anti-vaccination leaflet

1880-1890

Steljes ABC type printing telegraph receiver No. 477

1895-1910

Leather truncheon used at Narborough Mental Asylum

1901-1930

National Telephone Company directory, 1898-1899

1898-1899

Marconi coherer and Admiralty pattern decoherer, 1900-1910

1900-1910

A T & T national telephone directory, October 1896

1896

Mechanical telephone, 1880-1920

1880-1920

Filter used to produce radioactive water

1901-1930

Bottle of medicinal water from La Rampe

1920-1928

Amplion loud speaker with wooden horn, 1925

1925

Syntonic Leyden jars, 1880-1889

1880-1889

Magneto-ringing Ericsson telephone, 1892-1920

1892-1920

Hertzian receiving resonator, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Straight horn loudspeaker, 1921-1926

1921-1926

Carved wooden fetish doll or "Akua Mma"

1890-1910

Copper plaque stamped with a Latin cross for protection against cholera

1900-1909

De Forest syntoniser, 1902-1907

1902-1907

Coherer, ebonite, with adjustable contacts, 1890-1896

1890-1896

Full dentures, England, 1890-1900

1890-1900

Morse key with send-receive switch, 1900-1920

1900-1920

Protective leather and chain mail mask

1917-1918

Loading coil, 1910-1930

1910-1930

"Airway" vacuum cleaner, c.1930

1930

Specimens of Pacific cable in glazed presentation case, 1902-1923

1902-1923

Five-line single cord switchboard, 1900-1909

1900-1909