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

circa 1885

Model ground signal, North London Railway

1888

Model steam locomotive

1890

model steam locomotive

1890

Fairlie steam locomotive model

1879

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

circa 1880

Model of Robert Duncan's screw propeller, with stern frame and rudder, as fitted to the Egyptian government yacht 'Sareea

1886-1887

Silver medal, commemorates the International Health Exhibition

1884

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

1871

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

1878

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Model vertical cylinder fire engine

circa 1885

Sample of Acid Yellow Dye

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

Syntonic Leyden jars, 1880-1889

1880-1889

Experimental carbon block microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Powdered graphite microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Experimental carbon pencil microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Experimental microphones with carbon pencils and cups, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Granular microphone in glass tube, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Experimental microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Nameplate, London & North Western Railway - "John Ramsbottom"

1872

Tailboard, North Eastern Railway

1880

Set of wheels from Blenkinsop Railway locomotive

1880

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Model (scale 1:4) of pair of "Janney" couplings; model (scale 1:8) old pattern couplings

1873

Great Western Railway splasher plate

1889

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

Tank wagon, North Eastern Railway - Shell-Mex and BP Ltd

1889

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

1880

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

1873

Geometrical Groin Vault, string surface model

1872

Cupriferous sandstone from Schweinkopf

before 1889

Child's Ordinary bicycle (c. 1880)

circa 1880

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Carriage key

1875-1890

Glass-stoppered bottle containing uranium

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

Jones 50-line switchboard, 1879.

1879

Edison telephone peg switchboard and pegs, 1879

1879

Wall telephone using a Blake transmitter, 1880-1890

1880-1890

Pair of Bell telephones, 1878

1878

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

Crossley telephone receiver, 1880

1880

Gold lever watch by George Blackie

1873

Watch by Sir John Bennett

1884