Image
Category
Collection
Maker
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

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

A T & T national telephone directory, October 1896

1896

Experimental carbon block microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Experimental microphones with carbon pencils and cups, 1878-1890

1878-1890

National Telephone Company directory, 1898-1899

1898-1899

Granular microphone in glass tube, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Coherer with coarse brass turnings, 1894

1894

Syntonic Leyden jars, 1880-1889

1880-1889

Receiving ‘jigger’ used by the Marconi Company, 1899

1899

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Filings coherer, glass tube formed into T-shape at one end and bent round into U-shape at other end with bulb, 1899

1899

Coherer, ebonite, with adjustable contacts, 1890-1896

1890-1896

Experimental transmitting ‘jigger’ used by the Marconi Company, 1899

1899

Spiral spring coherer, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Hertzian receiving resonator, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Hertzian oscillator, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Filings coherer, small glass tube with bulb at one end and cap of red sealing wax at other end, 1898

1898

Portrait of the Reverand Henry Nelthropp MA, FSA (1820 – 1901)

1896

Gold watch with tourbillon by Girard Perregaux

1879

Ring transformer, 1892

1892

English lever escapement watch with Karrusel by S Smith and Son

1897

Enamel watch depicting the Virgin and Child

1880

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Foetal monaural stethoscope

1875-1885

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

1876

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

1880-1890

Clear glass specimen jar for turmeric root

1880-1899

Straight spectacles with bifocal perfection lenses

1885-1895

Device for recording warder patrols in a Lunatic Asylum

1877-1897

Meerschaum tobacco pipe

1880-1890

Water pipe from Water Street, Manchester

1890-1899

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Catgut suture

1875

East Coast Joint Stock, 3rd Class railway carriage, 1898

1898

Shoehorn made from Rescued Brass from Thirsk Disaster

1892

Wise's Patent Train Staff

1886

Model steam locomotive, North Eastern Railway

1884

Model steam locomotive

1882

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

circa 1885

Model ground signal, North London Railway

1888

Model steam locomotive

1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Sample of Acid Yellow Dye

circa 1890