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Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

Model steam locomotive

1890

Travelling tea case in leather case

1895

Model steam

1899

Model ground signal, North London Railway

1888

model steam locomotive

1890

Light-bulb, filament, carbon

About 1890

Bo-Third Rail No D75S

1898

Platt Brothers Notice

1898

Platt Brothers Notice

1899

model crane - little elephant

1896

Shoehorn made from Rescued Brass from Thirsk Disaster

1892

Hank Winding Machine

1897

Enamel notice, Dinorwic Quarries Railway

1895

London & South Western Railway pathway notice

1896

Ring transformer, 1892

1892

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

East Coast Joint Stock, 3rd Class railway carriage, 1898

1898

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

Coherer, ebonite, with adjustable contacts, 1890-1896

1890-1896

Filings coherer, small glass tube with bulb at one end and cap of red sealing wax at other end, 1898

1898

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Filings coherer, glass tube formed into T-shape at one end and bent round into U-shape at other end with bulb, 1899

1899

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Novelty model

1955; 1830

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

X-ray tube

1895-1899

National Telephone Company directory, 1898-1899

1898-1899

A T & T national telephone directory, October 1896

1896

Cape Government locomotive and tender 4-8-0, 1896

1896

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Sample of Acid Yellow Dye

circa 1890

Water pipe from Water Street, Manchester

1890-1899

Receiving ‘jigger’ used by the Marconi Company, 1899

1899

Copper ore from the Bell Mine

before 1889

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

before 1889

Vertical Compound Steam Engine with Hackworth's Valve Gear, 1898

1898

Coherer with coarse brass turnings, 1894

1894

Experimental transmitting ‘jigger’ used by the Marconi Company, 1899

1899

Hertzian oscillator, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Spiral spring coherer, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Carding Engine

1896

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

1894

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

1897-1898

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

Portrait bust of Sir John Hawkshaw

1899