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Category
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Place
Material
Date

Cotton Bale Breaker

1911

Dye Sample

1916

Wrought iron coffee mill with circular lidded hopper

1850-1900

Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

circa 1900

Woollen shawl

1880-1920

Replica of 1903 Wright Brothers' aero engine

after 1903

Reason slot meter, c.1920.

1918-1922

Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

1850-1856

Colour lithograph of the S.S. 'Great Eastern'

1850-1859

Addac adding machine

1926

Shelvador electric compression domestic refrigerator, c. 1934-1935.

1930-1940

"Stebull" box shaped electric hair dryer

1920-1940

Hand-operated mill for grinding coffee beans

1880-1900

Ring spinning frame

1901

Telephone crossbar switch, Swedish Ericsson, 1921

1921

Desk telephone transmitter and receiver (sectioned), 1926.

1926

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

1845

Socrates

1790-1819

Demainbray's turquoise disc

1745-1755

Demainbray's hydrostatic paradox vessels

1735-1752

Demainbray's polemoscope

1701-1752

Pair of bar magnets in box

1750-1795

Plaster mould of head of Apollo

1790-1819

Demainbray's yellow disc

1745-1755

Magneto-ringing Ericsson telephone, 1892-1920

1892-1920

Model steam locomotive

1890

Plaster bust

1790-1819

Plaster mould

1790-1819

horological rubber

1850-1900

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Demainbray's syphon

1701-1752

Reproduction in wood. No 127

1808

Demainbray's speaking trumpet

1700-1752

Selector switch, 1903

1903

Plaster cast of Venus

1790-1819

Strowger automatic telephone, 1901-1910

1901-1910

Impulse sender (dial), 1915

1915

Strowger calling dial, 1906

1906

Reproduction alabaster bust of Homer

1790-1819

Phrenological (Spreading) Calipers

1820-1850

Replica of Bell's 1876 'iron-box' receiver, 1959

1876

Reproduction in wood, Dr Joseph Black

1809

plaster cast of Apollo

1790-1819

Marble reproduction of bust

1790-1819

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878

Chain of Office

1927

Ceramic plate depicting Ely Cathedral, London & North Eastern Railway

1938

1914-1915 star medal - G F W Keen

1915

Travelling tea case in leather case

1895