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Collection
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Material
Date

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Model ground signal, North London Railway

1888

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Copper ore from the Bell Mine

before 1889

Arsenical cobalt or skutterudite, from Skutterude, near Modum, Norway

before 1889

Great Western Railway splasher plate

1889

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Tank wagon, North Eastern Railway - Shell-Mex and BP Ltd

1889

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

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

1705-1737

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

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

1934

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Spark gap or knob coherer, 1889

1889

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Cupriferous sandstone from Schweinkopf

before 1889

Cobalt ore from New Caledonia

before 1889

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Two Spools of Celluloid Made by Louis Le Prince and Case

1888-1889

Kodak No. 2 Camera, 1889

1889

Rectilinear Landscape Lens by J H Dallmeyer

1888

Medal, bronze, commemorating Luigi Galvani

1888

Silver medal of the hospital of Santa Casa da Misericordia

1889

Medal, silver, Institut Pasteur

1888

Bronze medal

1888

Andre-Marie Ampere

1825; 1910

Early moving coil voltmeter

1889

Rheostat, Kelvin Pattern

1888

"Vernier" potentiometer (Thomson-Varley slides)

1889

Muirhead Clark standard cell

1888

Rain gauge

1888

No.12 lockstitch sewing machine head

1888

10-Inch JuniorTrig 0902 Aristo slide rule from the 1974 catalogue

1970-1875

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Chromium steel valve from a steam engine indicator by McInnes-Dobbie Limited

1888 (design date)

Condenser stand, cast iron black finish

1889

Condenser clamp, cast iron black finish

1889