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Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Hand-operated mill for grinding coffee beans

1880-1900

Cotton Bale Breaker

1911

Roving frame

1927

Wrapping block

circa 1920

Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

circa 1900

Platt Brothers Notice

1898

Platt Brothers Notice

1899

Woollen shawl

1880-1920

Replica of 1903 Wright Brothers' aero engine

after 1903

War memorial plaque, South Eastern & Chatham Railway

1914

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

Enamel notice, Dinorwic Quarries Railway

1895

London & South Western Railway pathway notice

1896

Wolferton station master hand lamp

1870-1880

cane presented to Mr. Sidney Foreman for his first-aid work at the Charfield railway disaster

1924

Model of the Lowe-Vansittart Screw Propeller Blades

1869

Ring spinning frame

1901

Water pipe from Water Street, Manchester

1890-1899

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Leather truncheon used at Narborough Mental Asylum

1901-1930

Filter used to produce radioactive water

1901-1930

Bottle of medicinal water from La Rampe

1920-1928

Amplion loud speaker with wooden horn, 1925

1925

Straight horn loudspeaker, 1921-1926

1921-1926

Carved wooden fetish doll or "Akua Mma"

1890-1910

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Copper plaque stamped with a Latin cross for protection against cholera

1900-1909

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

Sample of the first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Letter written by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), 1858

1858-03-02

Full dentures, England, 1890-1900

1890-1900

"Airway" vacuum cleaner, c.1930

1930

Galvanic brooch

1880-1920

Cut glass bottle with deeply incised decoration

1860-1900

Duchenne's Late C19 Magneto Electric Therapy Machine

1860-1900

Chromolithograph: Amalgamated Society of Engineers Machinists ... by Blades

1904

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Engraving: Watt's first experiment. Marcus Stone ARA pinxt; Herbert Bourne sculpt; published by Appleton & Co

1879

Sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Hertzian oscillator, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Pair of metal-rimmed spectacles with wire mesh protecters

1891-1920

Sample of four-core telegraph cable connecting Vancouver Island with the mainland

1904

Sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

1866

Silicon crystal for wireless telegraphy, mounted in a locket, 1906-1916

1906-1916

Carved figure of breastfeeding woman

1890-1920

model ship - dewsbury

1910