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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

Replica of 1903 Wright Brothers' aero engine

after 1903

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

Filings coherer, glass tube bent into U-shape at one end, 1894-1904

1894-1904

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

Filings coherer, glass tube almost of taper shape, 1894-1904

1894-1904

'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

Filings coherer, glass tube containing powdered copper, bulb at one end, 1894-1904

1894-1904

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

Filings coherer, Lodge pattern with two wires inserted into bulb at one end, 1894-1904

1894-1904

De Forest syntoniser, 1902-1907

1902-1907

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

Coherer, narrow-bore glass tube, 1894-1904

1894-1904

Full dentures, England, 1890-1900

1890-1900