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Place
Material
Date

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Steam locomotive, 'Bauxite'

1874

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

1874

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

1878

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Parsons' steam turbine generator, 1884

1884

The "Perfect Vise"

1890

Light-bulb, filament, carbon

About 1890

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

1884

Tower's handcuffs

1882-1890

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Catgut suture

1875

Early telephone by Alexander Graham Bell, 1877.

1877

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Replica of Edison's First Phonograph, 1877.

1877

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Penny Farthing Bicycle

1880-1890

Saint's sewing machine, 1874.

1874

Gower-Bell telephone, 1881

1881

Model vertical cylinder fire engine

circa 1885

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

1990-95

Lancashire Boiler

1889

Hansen's Writing Ball, also known as Malling-Hansen Writing Ball

1875-1880

Model steam locomotive

1890

Marine thermometer by Negretti and Zambra

1890

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Set of 8 brass handled

1890

Wall telephone using a Blake transmitter, 1880-1890

1880-1890

Moldacot pocket sewing machine, 1887.

1886-1887

Rabbit in cabbage musical automaton

1890

Admiral FitzRoy type Barometer, 1876-1884

1876-1884

Silver medal, commemorates the International Health Exhibition

1884

Syntonic Leyden jars, 1880-1889

1880-1889

Experimental carbon pencil microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890