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Place
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Date

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

1845

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Wine glass possibly used as a culture glass by Joseph Lister

1860-1877

Silver model of the Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross Station

1867-1868

Silver lancet case, empty

1833

Model steam

1899

Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849

1849

Two copper and zinc chains, France, 1855-1870

1855-1870

Anatomical model of the spine

1901

Enamel notice, Dinorwic Quarries Railway

1895

London & South Western Railway pathway notice

1896

Wolferton station master hand lamp

1870-1880

great north of england railway bye laws notice

1842

Circular electric hot plate for domestic cooking

1892-1900

Hand-operated mill for grinding coffee beans

1880-1900

Sugar nippers, 19th century.

1880-1900

Column dial by Henry Robert

1831-1870

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Copper ore from the Bell Mine

before 1889

One of four original Swan and Raven models

1867

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

1867

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Arithmometer by Elliott Brothers

1885-1894

X-ray tube

1895-1899

Single needle telegraph, 1846

1846

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Stroh's type-printer for Wheatstone ABC communicator, 1870-1881

1870-1881

Syntonic Leyden jars, 1880-1889

1880-1889

Wheatstone printing telegraph, 1841

1841

Wheatstone automatic tape transmitter, 1840-1860

1840-1860

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Machine used for covering wires with silk and cotton, 1837

1837

Henley's magneto electric double needle telegraph, 1848-1852

1848-1852

Hertzian receiving resonator, 1890-1894

1890-1894

'Italian Navy' detector, 1899-1901

1899-1901

Spiral spring coherer, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Cooke and Wheatstone double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Silver medal, commemorates the International Health Exhibition

1884

Circular white metal medal

1830-1900

Charles Green Aeronaut

1836

Hand loom

1825-1835

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