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Underwood 1 Typewriter, 1897

1897

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

1897-1898

Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

circa 1897

Hank Winding Machine

1897

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

London & South Western Railway pathway notice

1896

A T & T national telephone directory, October 1896

1896

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

model crane - little elephant

1896

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

1898

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

1896

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Bo-Third Rail No D75S

1898

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

1896

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)

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

1898

Platt Brothers Notice

1898

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Tiled mural, North Staffordshire Railway

1897

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Brake composite/observation saloon

1897

Glass-stoppered bottle containing uranium

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

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

1934

Block instrument (lock and block)

1897

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

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

1705-1737

Section of cross-Channel telephone cable, 1897

1897

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Great Western Railway locomotive headlamp

1897

Great Western Railway locomotive headlamp

1897

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

1896

Portrait bust of Lord Kelvin, 1896

1896

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 of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Stained glass panel from Gorton Works

1897

Stained glass panel from Gorton Works

1897

Carding Engine

1896

Bersey Electric Taxi Cab

1897

Drawing of James Watt's Pumping Engine 1788

1897

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