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Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Model ground signal, North London Railway

1888

Novelty model

1955; 1830

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

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

1705-1737

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

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

Boxwood ceiling rose, 1888

1888

Evershed's Ohmmeter no.2

1889

Axe head shaped flint

10000-5000 BCE

Iron Weight

1910-130

Rheostat, Kelvin Pattern

1888

First alternating current magnifying strip spring ammeter

1888

Ammeter graduated to 100 amperes

1887

Voltmeter graduated to 100 volts

1887

Stirn waistcoat camera. c.1888. No.6227

1888

Reckenzaun's meter, 1888

1888

Barlow & Jones Limited Woven Banner

1887

Whitworth Measuring Machine

1889

Gilt pendant medal commemorating inauguration of statue to F.V. Raspail

1889

Set of 11 coins for Queen Victoria's Jubilee

1887

Alloy of lead containing five per cent of aluminium

before 1889

Iron ores from Cherbourg

before 1889

Steel specimens showing the effects of fracture and various ways of heating and cooling

before 1889

Prepared composition of Juleff's Cornish crucibles

before 1889

Tested clays from Rockingham Clay Works, Hampshire

before 1889

Iron ore from Providence

before 1889