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Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

circa 1897

Bo-Third Rail No D75S

1898

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

1898

Enamel notice, Dinorwic Quarries Railway

1895

A T & T national telephone directory, October 1896

1896

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

1896

London & South Western Railway pathway notice

1896

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

model crane - little elephant

1896

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Novelty model

1955; 1830

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

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Platt Brothers Notice

1898

Travelling tea case in leather case

1895

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

1896

Hank Winding Machine

1897

Tiled mural, North Staffordshire Railway

1897

Block instrument (lock and block)

1897

Glass-stoppered bottle containing uranium

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

Brake composite/observation saloon

1897

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

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Presentation scissors, SS Vienna

1894

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

1896

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Section of cross-Channel telephone cable, 1897

1897

Great Western Railway locomotive headlamp

1897

Great Western Railway locomotive headlamp

1897

model stockton & darlington railway coach "experiment"

1895

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

1934

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Brake van, London & South Western Railway

1894

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

1705-1737

Filings coherer, glass tube, 1898

1898

Receiving ‘jigger’ used by the Marconi Company, 1898

1898

Flat steel-spring (or watch-spring) coherer, 1894

1894

Filings coherer, glass tube bent at 45-degree angle at one end to form side-pocket, 1898

1898

Iron borings coherer (Branly type), 1894

1894

Portrait bust of Lord Kelvin, 1896

1896

Stained glass panel from Gorton Works

1897

Stained glass panel from Gorton Works

1897

Carding Engine

1896

Iron borings coherer (Branly type), 1894

1894

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

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

1990-95