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Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

Wise's Patent Train Staff

1886

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Model ground signal, North London Railway

1888

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Model vertical cylinder fire engine

circa 1885

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

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

1886-1887

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

before 1889

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Copper ore from the Bell Mine

before 1889

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

circa 1885

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

1705-1737

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

Spagnoletti intermediate signalling instrument

1885

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

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

1889

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Great Western Railway splasher plate

1889

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Spark gap or knob coherer, 1889

1889

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

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

1934

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Cupriferous sandstone from Schweinkopf

before 1889

Cobalt ore from New Caledonia

before 1889

Muirhead Clark standard cell

1888

Model of A.C. meter in which a rotating field is produced by an electromagnet with "shaded" poles

1889

Apparatus for earth induction

1887

Automatic switch

1885

Vertical contact switch, 1886

1886

Boxwood ceiling rose, 1888

1888

Crompton solenoid operated lightning arrestor

1885

Evershed's Ohmmeter no.2

1889

Turnswitch with fuse (wire), c.1886 [lacks cover]

1886

Axe head shaped flint

10000-5000 BCE

Kew standard mercury in glass thermometer

1885

Iron Weight

1910-130

Rheostat, Kelvin Pattern

1888

First alternating current magnifying strip spring ammeter

1888

Ammeter graduated to 100 amperes

1887

Bertin commutator

1886