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Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Bo-Third Rail No D75S

1898

Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

circa 1897

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

1897-1898

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

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

1896

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Travelling tea case in leather case

1895

Hank Winding Machine

1897

Enamel notice, Dinorwic Quarries Railway

1895

London & South Western Railway pathway notice

1896

Platt Brothers Notice

1898

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

1898

model crane - little elephant

1896

A T & T national telephone directory, October 1896

1896

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Portrait of the Reverand Henry Nelthropp MA, FSA (1820 – 1901)

1896

Novelty model

1955; 1830

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

1898

Coherer with coarse brass turnings, 1894

1894

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

1898

English lever escapement watch with Karrusel by S Smith and Son

1897

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Locomotive tender no. 1002, Great Northern Railway

1893

Brake van, London & South Western Railway

1894

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Brake composite/observation saloon

1897

Block instrument (lock and block)

1897

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Section of cross-Channel telephone cable, 1897

1897

Glass-stoppered bottle containing uranium

1801-1892 (prepared); 1946 (element replaced)

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

1894

Receiving ‘jigger’ used by the Marconi Company, 1898

1898

Portrait bust of Lord Kelvin, 1896

1896

Underwood 1 Typewriter, 1897

1897

Carding Engine

1896

Great Western Railway locomotive headlamp

1897

Ottawa & Gatineau Valley Railway commemorative salver

1893

Presentation scissors, SS Vienna

1894

Tiled mural, North Staffordshire Railway

1897

Great Western Railway locomotive headlamp

1897

Model twin-screw steamship 'Kirkham', Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway

1896

model stockton & darlington railway coach "experiment"

1895

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Stained glass panel from Gorton Works

1897