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

1897-1898

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Underwood 1 Typewriter, 1897

1897

Platt Brothers Notice

1898

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Hank Winding Machine

1897

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

1898

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

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

1898

Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

circa 1897

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Bo-Third Rail No D75S

1898

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

English lever escapement watch with Karrusel by S Smith and Son

1897

Great Western Railway locomotive headlamp

1897

Tiled mural, North Staffordshire Railway

1897

Great Western Railway locomotive headlamp

1897

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Section of cross-Channel telephone cable, 1897

1897

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Block instrument (lock and block)

1897

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

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

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, 1898

1898

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

1934

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

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

1990-95

Steam locomotive, number 245

1897

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Bersey Electric Taxi Cab

1897

Drawing of James Watt's Pumping Engine 1788

1897

Model of submersible 'Turtle'

1976; 1776

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Gramophone by HMV, 1897

1897

Copy of Lodestone believed to have been used by Queen Anne

1929 (copy); 1702-1714 (original)

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Four photographs

1897

Two photographs

1897