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

1898

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Sample of Acid Yellow Dye

circa 1890

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Water pipe from Water Street, Manchester

1890-1899

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Travelling tea case in leather case

1895

Model steam

1899

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Model ground signal, North London Railway

1888

Novelty model

1955; 1830

model steam locomotive

1890

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

Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

Platt Brothers Notice

1898

Platt Brothers Notice

1899

Bo-Third Rail No D75S

1898

Model steam locomotive

1890

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

1898

model crane - little elephant

1896

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

1896

Copper ore from the Bell Mine

before 1889

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

before 1889

Light-bulb, filament, carbon

About 1890

Marine thermometer by Negretti and Zambra

1890

X-ray tube

1895-1899

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

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

1899

Receiving ‘jigger’ used by the Marconi Company, 1899

1899

Coherer, ebonite, with adjustable contacts, 1890-1896

1890-1896

Hertzian oscillator, 1890-1894

1890-1894

A T & T national telephone directory, October 1896

1896

National Telephone Company directory, 1898-1899

1898-1899

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Ring transformer, 1892

1892

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Hertzian receiving resonator, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Spiral spring coherer, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Coherer with coarse brass turnings, 1894

1894

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

1899

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

1898

Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

circa 1897

Carding Engine

1896

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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