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Place of origin
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Date

Hank Winding Machine

1897

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

A T & T national telephone directory, October 1896

1896

Platt Brothers Notice

1898

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

1898

Bo-Third Rail No D75S

1898

model crane - little elephant

1896

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

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

1898

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

1898

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Novelty model

1955; 1830

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

1896

Carding Engine

1896

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Underwood 1 Typewriter, 1897

1897

Block instrument (lock and block)

1897

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

1897-1898

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

1934

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Glass-stoppered bottle containing uranium

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

Section of cross-Channel telephone cable, 1897

1897

Tiled mural, North Staffordshire Railway

1897

Stained glass panel from Gorton Works

1897

Stained glass panel from Gorton Works

1897

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

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

1898

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

1896

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Portrait bust of Lord Kelvin, 1896

1896

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Great Western Railway locomotive headlamp

1897

Great Western Railway locomotive headlamp

1897

Brake composite/observation saloon

1897

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

1896

Concave Rowland diffraction grating on speculum metal

1898

Medal commemorating Anton Drasche

1896

Medal commemorating Anton Drasche

1896

Medal commemorating Anton Drasche

1896

Aluminium medal to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the discovery of India

1898

Silver medal

1896-1898

Rectangular bronze medal

1898

Alabaster kohl pot

2000-1350

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3

X-ray tube

1897-1898