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Light-bulb, filament, carbon

About 1890

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Marine thermometer by Negretti and Zambra

1890

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

model steam locomotive

1890

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Model steam locomotive

1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Sample of Acid Yellow Dye

circa 1890

Novelty model

1955; 1830

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

Copper ore from the Bell Mine

before 1889

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

before 1889

model ner tennant locomotive

1890

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Great Western Railway splasher plate

1889

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

1934

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

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

1889

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

1705-1737

Spark gap or knob coherer, 1889

1889

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Set of 8 brass handled

1890

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Cupriferous sandstone from Schweinkopf

before 1889

Rabbit in cabbage musical automaton

1890

Lancashire Boiler

1889

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Forth Bridge Railway Co. rivet from Forth Bridge

1888; 1984

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

2050-1750 BCE

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Berliner gramophone

1890

Reynaud's Praxinoscope Theatre

1879 (1956)

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979