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Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

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

1897-1898

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

1879

Brass worksplate no 517, Manning Wardle & Co

1875

Brass worksplate no 917, Manning Wardle & Co

1884

Full size wooden model of Beloe's double rail and chair

1877

Novelty model

1955; 1830

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

circa 1880

X-ray tube

1895-1899

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

1886-1887

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Silver medal, commemorates the International Health Exhibition

1884

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

Copper ore from the Bell Mine

before 1889

Arsenical cobalt or skutterudite, from Skutterude, near Modum, Norway

before 1889

A T & T national telephone directory, October 1896

1896

Syntonic Leyden jars, 1880-1889

1880-1889

Coherer, ebonite, with adjustable contacts, 1890-1896

1890-1896

Hertzian oscillator, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Enamel watch depicting the Virgin and Child

1880

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Foetal monaural stethoscope

1875-1885

Clear glass specimen jar for turmeric root

1880-1899

Straight spectacles with bifocal perfection lenses

1885-1895

Meerschaum tobacco pipe

1880-1890

Water pipe from Water Street, Manchester

1890-1899

Bo-Third Rail No D75S

1898

Cape Government locomotive and tender 4-8-0, 1896

1896

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Arithmometer by Elliott Brothers

1885-1894

Light-bulb, filament, carbon

About 1890

Marine thermometer by Negretti and Zambra

1890

Carriage key

1875-1890

Experimental carbon pencil microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Powdered graphite microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Crossley table telephone, 1879

1879

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

1876

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878

Experimental microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Experimental carbon block microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Experimental microphones with carbon pencils and cups, 1878-1890

1878-1890