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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

Kadoorie, Lawrence (CBE)

1899 - 1993

Model steam

1899

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Hank Winding Machine

1897

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

1898

London & South Western Railway pathway notice

1896

Platt Brothers Notice

1899

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

National Telephone Company directory, 1898-1899

1898-1899

Receiving ‘jigger’ used by the Marconi Company, 1899

1899

Filings coherer, glass tube formed into T-shape at one end and bent round into U-shape at other end with bulb, 1899

1899

Experimental transmitting ‘jigger’ used by the Marconi Company, 1899

1899

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

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

1898

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

1896

English lever escapement watch with Karrusel by S Smith and Son

1897

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Carding Engine

1896

Great Western Railway locomotive headlamp

1897

Tiled mural, North Staffordshire Railway

1897

Great Western Railway locomotive headlamp

1897

Portrait bust of Sir John Hawkshaw

1899

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

1896

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Platt Brothers Notice

1899

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Block instrument (lock and block)

1897

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Stained glass panel from Gorton Works

1897

Stained glass panel from Gorton Works

1897

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Brake composite/observation saloon

1897

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

1705-1737

Glass-stoppered bottle containing uranium

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

Filings coherer, glass tube formed into bulbs at each end at right angles, 1899

1899

Filings coherer, glass tube, 1898

1898

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

1934