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Category
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Place
Material
Date

Spagnoletti intermediate signalling instrument

1885

Saw bench

1879

NER 0-6-0 '1001' class steam locomotive and tender, No 1275, 1874

1874

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

1880

Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Child's Ordinary bicycle (c. 1880)

circa 1880

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Lithograph of Daniel Spills Ivorideworks by Daniel Greenaway, 1875

1875

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Jones 50-line switchboard, 1879.

1879

Edison telephone peg switchboard and pegs, 1879

1879

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

1878

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

Bell Transmitter with Membrane Diaphragm, 1875-1877

1875-1877

Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934

1934

Watch by Sir John Bennett

1884

Ear trumpet and walking stick combined

1875-1885

Steam locomotive, 'Bauxite'

1874

Panorama de Paris

1878

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Early telephone by Alexander Graham Bell, 1877.

1877

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Admiral FitzRoy type Barometer, 1876-1884

1876-1884

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Parsons' steam turbine generator, 1884

1884

Gower-Bell telephone, 1881

1881

Lawson 'Bicyclette', 1879

1879

Photograph of Karl Benz

circa 1885

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Replica of Edison's First Phonograph, 1877.

1877

Self winding pocket watch in square, silver case

1875-1885

Saint's sewing machine, 1874.

1874

Model of submersible 'Turtle'

1976; 1776

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Rigged model of the Portuguese ironclad battleship 'Vasco de Gama'

1875-1876

Glass display case containing various cosmetic devices from the 1700s, England, 1880-1930

1701-1800

Photograph of the Great Nebula in Orion, 1883

1883

Copy of Lodestone believed to have been used by Queen Anne

1929 (copy); 1702-1714 (original)

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Combination ejector for automatic vacuum brake, standard type, patented by J. Gresham in 1878-1881, sectioned, on stand.

Gresham combination ejector for vacuum brake

1878-1881

Magic lantern slide: Lion

1880

Whitworth Lathe No. 626

1880

Rulebook for the Thetford & Watton Railway Company

1876

Portrait of Two Women Carrying Jars

1875-1879

Railway Director's Official Diary, Great Western Railway, 1880

1880

volunteer review

1882

Revised Classification of Merchandise Traffic and Revised Schedule of Maximum Rates and Charges Applicable thereto, proposed to be charged by the Eastern and Midlands Railway Company

1889-02

Hofmann's apparatus for decomposing phosphuretted hydrogen

1876

Bust of Sir William Fairbairn

1875

Rouch pedestal stereoscope

1875-1885