Drawing frame
1901
Drawing frame
1901
Carding Engine
1896
Larmuth Loom
circa 1860
Model of a Power Loom for Plain Weaving
1857
Lancashire Loom
circa 1880
Model of Great Central Railway "Atlantic" Express Locomotive
1903 (original); 1982 (model)
York apprentices model train - North Eastern Railway
1870
Wrap reel/Hank winder
1877
Yarn Balance
circa 1900
Copper earthing tube believed to have been used by Marconi, 1890-1897
1890-1897
Electric hairbrush
1896-1900
Powdered graphite microphone, 1878-1890
1878-1890
Powdered graphite microphone, 1878-1890
1878-1890
Cell used in interruptor circuit, 1875-1890
1875-1890
Magneto-electrometer, 1857
1857
Polarized 'guillotine' relay, 1862-1866
1862-1866
Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877
1870-1877
Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851
1851
Hughes microphone detector, 1865-1875
1865-1875
Clockwork interruptor, once owned by David Hughes, 1875-1880
1875-1880
Artificial leg made for a child, England, 1903
1903
Craniometer, stainless steel
1874-1902
Iron borings coherer (Branly type), 1894
1894
Experimental microphone using steel needles and gas carbon, 1878-1890
1878-1890
Granular microphone in bamboo tube, 1878-1890
1878-1890
Time register for recording asylum warder patrols
1870-1899
Spark gap or knob coherer, 1889
1889
Sample of transatlantic cable, 1865-66
1865-1866
Billi condenser used for aerial tuning in Newfoundland, 1901
1901
Cast iron hospital bed
1851-1900
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)
NER 0-6-0 '1001' class steam locomotive and tender, No 1275, 1874
1874
London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'
1873
'City of Truro' Steam locomotive
1903
Steam locomotive, 'Bauxite'
1874
London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill
1880
Locomotive tender no. 1002, Great Northern Railway
1893
Section of the tree under which Livingstone's viscera were buried, Africa, 1873
1873
Great Northern Railway Carriage Diagram Book
circa 1905
Edison's electric carbon filament lamp
1879
Gas Street Lamp
circa 1870
Original vacuum cleaner, from to Royal Naval College
1905
Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)
1668; 1924
Early telephone by Alexander Graham Bell, 1877.
1877
English-Built 'Boneshaker' Bicycle
1865-1870
Midland Railway locomotive number 1000
1902
Michaux-Perreaux steam motor cycle scale model
1868