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Model ground signal, North London Railway

1888

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Novelty model

1955; 1830

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Copper ore from the Bell Mine

before 1889

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

before 1889

Great Western Railway splasher plate

1889

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1889

Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

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

1705-1737

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Spark gap or knob coherer, 1889

1889

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Cupriferous sandstone from Schweinkopf

before 1889

Cobalt ore from New Caledonia

before 1889

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

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

1934

Two Spools of Celluloid Made by Louis Le Prince and Case

1888-1889

Kodak No. 2 Camera, 1889

1889

Rectilinear Landscape Lens by J H Dallmeyer

1888

Medal, bronze, commemorating Luigi Galvani

1888

Silver medal of the hospital of Santa Casa da Misericordia

1889

Medal, silver, Institut Pasteur

1888

Bronze medal

1888

Andre-Marie Ampere

1825; 1910

Early moving coil voltmeter

1889

Rheostat, Kelvin Pattern

1888

"Vernier" potentiometer (Thomson-Varley slides)

1889

Muirhead Clark standard cell

1888

Rain gauge

1888

No.12 lockstitch sewing machine head

1888

10-Inch JuniorTrig 0902 Aristo slide rule from the 1974 catalogue

1970-1875

Stirn waistcoat camera. c.1888. No.6227

1888

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Chromium steel valve from a steam engine indicator by McInnes-Dobbie Limited

1888 (design date)

Balsa triangular component from a steam engine indicator by McInnes-Dobbie Limited

1888 (design date)