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Model of Wright Flyer

1903

'Cat's whisker' Crystal Radio

1920-1925

Obsidian possibly used in trephination experiments

1918-1920

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy Biplane

1919

Automatic telephone wall, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Strowger step-by-step automatic telephone exchange switch, 1897-1898

1897-1898

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

1905

Artificial arm, below-elbow prosthesis

1895-1904

Gecophone Crystal Detector Radio Set No. 1, 1923

1923

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Oxygen cylinder used by climbers on 1953 Mount Everest expedition

1952-3

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

1917

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

circa 1900

Hull Corporation telephone, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Horseshoe magnet and keep used with experimental form of magnetic detector, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Bottle of Hunyadi Janos mineral water, unopened

1900-1920

Model Great Northern Railway Centre-pivot Semaphore Signal

c.1912

Steam locomotive, named Lode Star, Great Western Railway

1907

Pullman Car Company, called Topaz

1913

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Brennan's Gyroscopic Mono-rail Car

1907

'Prorace' cervical cap

1915-1925

Timetable, Midland Railway

1903

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

Bo-Bo No 1

1902

Copper ore from the Bell Mine

before 1889

Double surface of revolution of constant negative curvature

1910

Burroughs Class 5 hand operated mechanical adding machine with ten registers

1920-1925

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

before 1889

Light-bulb, filament, carbon

About 1890

Burroughs hand operated adding and listing machine

1917

Revolution of constant negative curvature

1910

Early model wooden-case comptometer by Felt and Tarrant Manufacturing Co.

1887-1903

model steam locomotive London, Brighton & South Coast Railway

1925

Impulse sender (dial), 1915

1915

Telephone crossbar switch, Swedish Ericsson, 1921

1921

De Forest audion 1906-1915

1906-1915

A T & T national telephone directory, October 1896

1896

Strowger automatic telephone, 1901-1910

1901-1910

Strowger calling dial, 1906

1906

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

'Italian Navy' detector, 1899-1901

1899-1901

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

De Forest syntoniser, 1902-1907

1902-1907

Mystery watch by Armand Schwob & Frère

1900

Portrait of the Reverand Henry Nelthropp MA, FSA (1820 – 1901)

1896

Wooden figure used as container for nkisi force

1890-1910

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Copper plaque stamped with a Latin cross for protection against cholera

1900-1909