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Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

Silver medal, commemorates the International Health Exhibition

1884

Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

Brass worksplate no 917, Manning Wardle & Co

1884

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

circa 1885

Model ground signal, North London Railway

1888

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Model steam locomotive, North Eastern Railway

1884

Copper ore from the Bell Mine

before 1889

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

before 1889

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Model vertical cylinder fire engine

circa 1885

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Wise's Patent Train Staff

1886

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

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

1886-1887

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Great Western Railway splasher plate

1889

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Plaster model of a human eye, France, 1884

1884

Spagnoletti intermediate signalling instrument

1885

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1889

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Cupriferous sandstone from Schweinkopf

before 1889

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

1884

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

1705-1737

Watch by Sir John Bennett

1884

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

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

1934

Spark gap or knob coherer, 1889

1889

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Parsons' steam turbine generator, 1884

1884

Lancashire Boiler

1889

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Original Tesla Induction Motor presented by Tesla to Prof. Ayrton

Original Tesla induction motor, 1887-1888.

1887-1888

Barlow & Jones Limited Woven Banner

1887

Kreusler's fat extraction apparatus and stand

1886

Revised Classification of Merchandise Traffic and Revised Schedule of Maximum Rates and Charges Applicable thereto, proposed to be charged by the Eastern and Midlands Railway Company

1889-02