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Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

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

circa 1885

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

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

1886-1887

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

Wise's Patent Train Staff

1886

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Copper ore from the Bell Mine

before 1889

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

before 1889

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Great Western Railway splasher plate

1889

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Spagnoletti intermediate signalling instrument

1885

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

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

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

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

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

1705-1737

Barlow & Jones Limited Woven Banner

1887

Kreusler's fat extraction apparatus and stand

1886

Prize certificate awarded by the Department of Science and Art to Mr William H. Iles

1885

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

Case and parts for 12 x 15 inch Chapman 'British' plate camera

circa 1888

Three bulb lamp fitting from Wentworth Castle by Faraday and Son

circa 1886

Rectilinear Landscape Lens by J H Dallmeyer

1888

Manchester Royal Jubilee Exhibition commemorative handkerchief

1887

Forth Bridge Railway Co. rivet from Forth Bridge

1888; 1984

Plans (9) of no. 249 S.S. "Lee Sang"

1885

Stirn's 'America' Detective Camera

1889

Three original thermionic valves invented by Sir John Ambrose Fleming, 1889

1889

Set of three brass Imperial capacity measures

1885

Two boxed sets of Genaille's rods

1885

Photograph showing 4 different expressions

circa 1886