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Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

The Demon Detective camera

1889

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Mains cable from power stations in London, around 1890

1890

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Parsons' steam turbine generator, 1884

1884

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

model steam locomotive

1890

Wise's Patent Train Staff

1886

Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

Model steam locomotive, North Eastern Railway

1884

Model steam locomotive

1890

Light-bulb, filament, carbon

About 1890

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Silver medal, commemorates the International Health Exhibition

1884

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Model vertical cylinder fire engine

circa 1885

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

1886-1887

Copper ore from the Bell Mine

before 1889

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

before 1889

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Sample of Acid Yellow Dye

circa 1890

Marine thermometer by Negretti and Zambra

1890

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Oval badge

1891

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

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

1889

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Set of 8 brass handled

1890

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

1884

Spagnoletti intermediate signalling instrument

1885

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Cupriferous sandstone from Schweinkopf

before 1889

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

model ner tennant locomotive

1890

Great Western Railway splasher plate

1889

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96