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Category
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Circular electric hot plate for domestic cooking

1892-1900

Hand-operated mill for grinding coffee beans

1880-1900

Cotton Bale Breaker

1911

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

Enamel notice, Dinorwic Quarries Railway

1895

London & South Western Railway pathway notice

1896

Wolferton station master hand lamp

1870-1880

Model of the Lowe-Vansittart Screw Propeller Blades

1869

Ring spinning frame

1901

Water pipe from Water Street, Manchester

1890-1899

Telephone crossbar switch, Swedish Ericsson, 1921

1921

Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860

1855-1860

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

1857-1858

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Wall telephone, 1880-1920

1880-1920

Stock Exchange automatic telegraph, 1872-1880

1872-1880

Experimental carbon block microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

De Forest audion 1906-1915

1906-1915

'Pock-marked faces: A curious illusion', anti-vaccination leaflet

1880-1890

Steljes ABC type printing telegraph receiver No. 477

1895-1910

National Telephone Company directory, 1898-1899

1898-1899

Marconi coherer and Admiralty pattern decoherer, 1900-1910

1900-1910

A T & T national telephone directory, October 1896

1896

Mechanical telephone, 1880-1920

1880-1920

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Syntonic Leyden jars, 1880-1889

1880-1889

Magneto-ringing Ericsson telephone, 1892-1920

1892-1920

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

Carved wooden fetish doll or "Akua Mma"

1890-1910

Copper plaque stamped with a Latin cross for protection against cholera

1900-1909

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

Full dentures, England, 1890-1900

1890-1900

Morse key with send-receive switch, 1900-1920

1900-1920

Powdered graphite microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Protective leather and chain mail mask

1917-1918

Specimens of Pacific cable in glazed presentation case, 1902-1923

1902-1923