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Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

circa 1897

Model steam

1899

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

1898

National Telephone Company directory, 1898-1899

1898-1899

Bo-Third Rail No D75S

1898

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Novelty model

1955; 1830

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

1899

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

1898

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

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

1898

Platt Brothers Notice

1898

Platt Brothers Notice

1899

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Hank Winding Machine

1897

Portrait bust of Sir John Hawkshaw

1899

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Tiled mural, North Staffordshire Railway

1897

Brake composite/observation saloon

1897

Block instrument (lock and block)

1897

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Underwood 1 Typewriter, 1897

1897

Glass-stoppered bottle containing uranium

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

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

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Great Western Railway locomotive headlamp

1897

Great Western Railway locomotive headlamp

1897

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

1897-1898

Filings coherer, glass tube, 1898

1898

Receiving ‘jigger’ used by the Marconi Company, 1898

1898

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

1899

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

1898

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

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

1934

Section of cross-Channel telephone cable, 1897

1897

Platt Brothers Notice

1899

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

L'Heure de la Prière

1899

Girl Reading

1898

Worksplate, Neilson Reid & Co.

1898

Composition caster, by the Lanston Monotype Corporation Ltd, 1897

1897

Demeny-Gaumont Chronophotograph Camera/Projector

circa 1898

Aluminium medal to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the discovery of India

1898