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Bo-Third Rail No D75S

1898

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

1897-1898

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Model steam

1899

Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

circa 1897

National Telephone Company directory, 1898-1899

1898-1899

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

1899

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

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

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

1898

Platt Brothers Notice

1898

Platt Brothers Notice

1899

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Hank Winding Machine

1897

Receiving ‘jigger’ used by the Marconi Company, 1899

1899

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

1899

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Tiled mural, North Staffordshire Railway

1897

Portrait bust of Sir John Hawkshaw

1899

Block instrument (lock and block)

1897

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

1934

Glass-stoppered bottle containing uranium

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

Great Western Railway locomotive headlamp

1897

Great Western Railway locomotive headlamp

1897

Section of cross-Channel telephone cable, 1897

1897

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

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

1705-1737

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

1899

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

Watch with complications and minute repeating by Samuel Smith & Son

1899

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Stained glass panel from Gorton Works

1897

Stained glass panel from Gorton Works

1897

Platt Brothers Notice

1899

Casket presented to Francis William Webb

1899

Brake composite/observation saloon

1897

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

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

1990-95

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Bersey Electric Taxi Cab

1897

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Great Northern Railway 0-6-0ST steam locomotive, No 1247, 1899

1899

Werner Motor Cycle, 1899

1899

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Rigged model of the "Cutty Sark"

1900-1933 (model); 1869 (original)