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Collection
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Place of origin
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Date

Bo-Third Rail No D75S

1898

Platt Brothers Notice

1898

Hank Winding Machine

1897

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

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

1898

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

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Novelty model

1955; 1830

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

1898

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

1897-1898

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Underwood 1 Typewriter, 1897

1897

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Tiled mural, North Staffordshire Railway

1897

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

1934

Great Western Railway locomotive headlamp

1897

Stained glass panel from Gorton Works

1897

Stained glass panel from Gorton Works

1897

Great Western Railway locomotive headlamp

1897

Brake composite/observation saloon

1897

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

1705-1737

Filings coherer, glass tube, 1898

1898

Section of cross-Channel telephone cable, 1897

1897

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

1898

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Block instrument (lock and block)

1897

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Glass-stoppered bottle containing uranium

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

Receiving ‘jigger’ used by the Marconi Company, 1898

1898

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Map, Railway Clearing House

1897

The Great Northern Railway Company Memorandum of Particulars of Warrant for 94th Dividend

1898

Steam locomotive 'Dean Goods', Great Western Railway

1897

Wooden backstaff or Davis quadrant made by John Gilbert on Tower Hill

1730; 1967

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

1972-3

Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.

2500 BCE

X-ray tube

1897

Spermine phosphate crystals prepared by Alexander von Poehl

1898

Brass saccharometer by R.B. Bate

1915-1825

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

1990-95

Uterine probe

1901-950

"Karrusel" deck watch

hallmarked 1897

Lever watch in pair case with crank roller

1800-1830

Cylinder watch in case with thin horizontal movement

1801-1850

Lever watch in case

1800-1830

X-ray tube

1897-1898

Bust on wooden base of Andrew Ross

1859; 1986