James Watt and the Steam Engine Print
1860
Dye Sample
circa 1890
Dye Sample
circa 1890
Dye Sample
circa 1890
Sample of Acid Yellow Dye
circa 1890
Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd
1889
Ribbon loom with jacquard head
circa 1900
Platt Brothers Notice
1898
Platt Brothers Notice
1899
Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway
1862
Silver medal, commemorates the International Health Exhibition
1884
Circular electric hot plate for domestic cooking
1892-1900
Hand-operated mill for grinding coffee beans
1880-1900
Sugar nippers, 19th century.
1880-1900
Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter
1886
Ring spinning frame
1901
Water pipe from Water Street, Manchester
1890-1899
Marine thermometer by Negretti and Zambra
1890
Billi condenser used for aerial tuning in Newfoundland, 1901
1901
Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860
1855-1860
Device for recording warder patrols in a Lunatic Asylum
1877-1897
Coherer with coarse brass turnings, 1894
1894
Sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858
1857-1858
Gold amulet in the form of a cobra
2000-100 BCE
Stock Exchange automatic telegraph, 1872-1880
1872-1880
Experimental carbon block microphone, 1878-1890
1878-1890
Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854
1854
'Pock-marked faces: A curious illusion', anti-vaccination leaflet
1880-1890
National Telephone Company directory, 1898-1899
1898-1899
Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858
1858
A T & T national telephone directory, October 1896
1896
Edison telephone, 1879
1879
Syntonic Leyden jars, 1880-1889
1880-1889
Bright's bell telegraph, 1855
1855
Wine glass possibly used as a culture glass by Joseph Lister
1860-1877
Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856
1856
Hertzian receiving resonator, 1890-1894
1890-1894
Model steam locomotive
1890
Atlantic cable specimen, 1865
1865
Coherer, ebonite, with adjustable contacts, 1890-1896
1890-1896
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
Experimental transmitting ‘jigger’ used by the Marconi Company, 1899
1899
Powdered graphite microphone, 1878-1890
1878-1890
Lord Kelvin's 'ironclad' marine galvanometer, 1865-1866
1865-1866
Filings coherer, small glass tube with bulb at one end and cap of red sealing wax at other end, 1898
1898
Receiving ‘jigger’ used by the Marconi Company, 1899
1899
Wine glass possibly used as a culture glass by Joseph Lister
1860-1877
Cut glass bottle with deeply incised decoration
1860-1900