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Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

Model steam locomotive

1890

Model ground signal, North London Railway

1888

model steam locomotive

1890

Light-bulb, filament, carbon

About 1890

Shoehorn made from Rescued Brass from Thirsk Disaster

1892

Ring transformer, 1892

1892

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

Marine thermometer by Negretti and Zambra

1890

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Hertzian receiving resonator, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Novelty model

1955; 1830

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

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Sample of Acid Yellow Dye

circa 1890

Copper ore from the Bell Mine

before 1889

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

before 1889

Wise's Patent Train Staff

1886

Coherer with coarse brass turnings, 1894

1894

Hertzian oscillator, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Spiral spring coherer, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Zither switch with open-wire multiple and two-motion ratchet drive, 1894

1894

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

model ner tennant locomotive

1890

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Set of 8 brass handled

1890

Great Western Railway splasher plate

1889

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Locomotive tender no. 1002, Great Northern Railway

1893

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

1889

Brake van, London & South Western Railway

1894

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

1934

Oval badge

1891

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

1705-1737

Iron borings coherer (Branly type), 1894

1894

Iron borings coherer (Branly type), 1894

1894

Spark gap or knob coherer, 1889

1889

Ottawa & Gatineau Valley Railway commemorative salver

1893

Presentation scissors, SS Vienna

1894

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Dye Sample

circa 1890