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Brake composite/observation saloon

1897

Steam Locomotive, number 901

1919

East Coast Joint Stock passenger brake van

1908

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

1873

Model twin-screw steamship 'Engadine', South Eastern & Chatham Railway/Southern Railway

1916

Dining Car number 76, London & North Western Railway

1900

Tables of lifetimes, annuities, and premiums

1864

Geometrical Groin Vault, string surface model

1872

Cupriferous sandstone from Schweinkopf

before 1889

Burroughs hand operated adding and listing machine

1913

Felt and Tarrant Comptometer, 1887.

circa 1900

Comptometer by Felt and Tarrant Mfg. Co. Chicago

1915-1920

Dowsing 4-bulb electric fire by The Dowsing Radiant Heat Co. Ltd.

1901-1911

Child's Ordinary bicycle (c. 1880)

circa 1880

Replica of a hobby-horse cycle

circa 1900

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

horological gravers

1870-1900

Model of LNWR Third Class railway carriage

1907-1917

Model of LNWR Third Class railway carriage

1907-1917

SS Dewsbury worksplate

1910

Carriage key

1875-1890

Conversation tube hearing aid

1860-1900

Glass-stoppered bottle containing uranium

1801-1892 (prepared); 1946 (element replaced)

General Electric CA101 Pilotron triode (McVitie Weston valve collection), 1918

1918

Jones 50-line switchboard, 1879.

1879

Edison telephone peg switchboard and pegs, 1879

1879

Card of Authority to use portable receiver, 1922

1922

Wall telephone using a Blake transmitter, 1880-1890

1880-1890

Wall telephone No. 1, 1900-1911

1900-1911

Experimental Form 1 (Licence to use Wireless Telegraph), 1905

1905

Pair of Bell telephones, 1878

1878

Zither switch with open-wire multiple and two-motion ratchet drive, 1894

1894

Amplifying valve type V24, 1920-1922

1920-1922

Ora wireless receiving triode, 1921

1921

Strowger two-motion selector with vertical mount, 1903-1920

1903-1920

Strowger step-by-step automatic telephone exchange switch, 1897-1898

1897-1898

Popular Wireless no. 1 vol. 1, 1922

1922

Telephone receivers with wooden handles, 1877-1902

1877-1902

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

Wall telephone with Blake transmitter, 1880-1900

1880-1900

C.W. transmitter/receiver, Mk.1, 1917

1917

Crossley telephone receiver, 1880

1880

Filings coherer, Lodge-Muirhead system, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Coherer, coarse iron turnings, 1894-1904

1894-1904

Filings coherer, glass tube formed into bulbs at each end at right angles, 1899

1899

Double coherer (experimental), 1895-1906

1895-1906

Bas-relief head and shoulders of Guglielmo Marconi, 1903

1903

Filings coherer, glass tube, 1898

1898

Receiving ‘jigger’ used by the Marconi Company, 1898

1898

Embossing telegraph receiver 1878-1900

1878-1900