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Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

1917

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

1850-1859

Travelling tea case in leather case

1895

John Ellis

1858

Wise's Patent Train Staff

1886

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

Cape Government locomotive and tender 4-8-0, 1896

1896

Stirling single locomotive wheel casting pattern, Great Northern Railway

1870

Cotton Bale Breaker

1911

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

1916

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Sample of Acid Yellow Dye

circa 1890

Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

Hand-operated mill for grinding coffee beans

1880-1900

Replica of 1903 Wright Brothers' aero engine

after 1903

Early model wooden-case comptometer by Felt and Tarrant Manufacturing Co.

1887-1903

Double surface of revolution of constant negative curvature

1910

Revolution of constant negative curvature

1910

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Shoehorn made from Rescued Brass from Thirsk Disaster

1892

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy Biplane

1919

Hank Winding Machine

1897

Mill Engine

1903

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

National Cash Register co model 422X cash register

circa 1910

Creda No 762 electric toaster with open element. No. 4515A

1914-1920

Poured wax doll

circa 1900

Commemorative spade used to turn the first sod of the River Lee Conservancy's new cutting through Horse Shoe Point

1878

Shoulder papier-mache doll accompanying English wooden doll.Circa 1840

circa 1840

Poster for Magni & C. Vicenza, printed by G Ricordi & C Milano c1900

circa 1900

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

1871

Dental anaesthetic syringe

1907-1920

Hobbs-type artificial left hand, Europe, 1918

1918

Telephone crossbar switch, Swedish Ericsson, 1921

1921

Stock Exchange automatic telegraph, 1872-1880

1872-1880

De Forest syntoniser, 1902-1907

1902-1907

Magnetic key, 1850-1870

1850-1870

Ring transformer, 1892

1892

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Strowger automatic telephone, 1901-1910

1901-1910

Impulse sender (dial), 1915

1915

Strowger calling dial, 1906

1906

Siemens and Halske's ABC Telegraph used in Russia

1850-1897

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878

Ceramic drinks bottle

1870-1910