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

1897-1898

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

circa 1897

Bo-Third Rail No D75S

1898

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

1898

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

1898

Platt Brothers Notice

1898

Hank Winding Machine

1897

English lever escapement watch with Karrusel by S Smith and Son

1897

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Tiled mural, North Staffordshire Railway

1897

Glass-stoppered bottle containing uranium

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

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Block instrument (lock and block)

1897

Great Western Railway locomotive headlamp

1897

Great Western Railway locomotive headlamp

1897

Section of cross-Channel telephone cable, 1897

1897

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

1934

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Brake composite/observation saloon

1897

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

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

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

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

1990-95

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Replica of Lightning Conductor by Benjamin Franklin, United States, 1730-1760

1730-1760 (original); 1931-1939 (replica)

Whole rigged model of the clipper ship 'Stonehouse'

1866 (original) 1871 (model); 1906 (rigging modified)

Bersey Electric Taxi Cab

1897

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Gramophone by HMV, 1897

1897

Launch Of HMS 'Albion' At Blackwall

1898-06-21

Picturesque Cornwall

1897

White metal medal

1897

Bronze medal commemorating Paul Schutzenberger

1897

Copy of forceps made from an Egyptian sculpture, Kom-Ombos, Egypt, 1901-1936

1901-1936; 180 BCE

Model of Henry Cavendish's Torsion Balance Gravitational Apparatus, 1798

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

Marvin type kite meteorograph, by Schneider Brothers, USA, 1898

1898

Glass-stoppered bottle containing vanadium

1801-1892 (prepared); 1926 (element replaced)

Glass-stoppered bottle containing bromine

1801-1892 (prepared); 1926 (element replaced)

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

Combined 35mm Camera, Printer and Projector

circa 1897