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Travelling tea case in leather case

1895

Stirling single locomotive wheel casting pattern, Great Northern Railway

1870

Commemorative spade used to turn the first sod of the River Lee Conservancy's new cutting through Horse Shoe Point

1878

Wood-working brace drill, with button-operated latch chuck, 1875-1885

circa 1880

Brass worksplate no 517, Manning Wardle & Co

1875

Brass worksplate no 917, Manning Wardle & Co

1884

Mantel clock, presented to T.W. Worsdell - Great Eastern Railway

circa 1885

Enamel notice, Dinorwic Quarries Railway

1895

London & South Western Railway pathway notice

1896

Wise's Patent Train Staff

1886

A T & T national telephone directory, October 1896

1896

Lord Kelvin's 'ironclad' marine galvanometer, 1865-1866

1865-1866

Catgut suture

1875

Rectal speculum

1870-1890

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Wolferton station master hand lamp

1870-1880

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

Sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

1866

Cast iron plaque from Queenstown Road Bridge, Battersea, London, 1865

1865

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

1871

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Sample of Acid Yellow Dye

circa 1890

Stock Exchange automatic telegraph, 1872-1880

1872-1880

Ring transformer, 1892

1892

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Replica of Bell's 1876 'iron-box' receiver, 1959

1876

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878

Remington 44 Revolver

1863-1865

Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

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

1879

Hank Winding Machine

1897

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

circa 1897

Silver medal, commemorates the International Health Exhibition

1884

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Experimental carbon block microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

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

1880-1890

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Syntonic Leyden jars, 1880-1889

1880-1889

Hertzian receiving resonator, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Model steam locomotive

1890

Coherer, ebonite, with adjustable contacts, 1890-1896

1890-1896

Powdered graphite microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Experimental carbon pencil microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Stroh's type-printer for Wheatstone ABC communicator, 1870-1881

1870-1881

Hertzian oscillator, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

1867