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Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

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

1879

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

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

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

1878

Enamel watch depicting the Virgin and Child

1880

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Crossley table telephone, 1879

1879

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

1876

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Gold watch with tourbillon by Girard Perregaux

1879

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

1876

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Fairlie steam locomotive model

1879

Tailboard, North Eastern Railway

1880

Set of wheels from Blenkinsop Railway locomotive

1880

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

1880

Child's Ordinary bicycle (c. 1880)

circa 1880

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

1705-1737

Edison telephone peg switchboard and pegs, 1879

1879

Pair of Bell telephones, 1878

1878

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

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

1934

Panorama de Paris

1878

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Lancashire Loom

circa 1880

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Saw bench

1879

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

Bronze ticket medal for admission and commemoration of the exposition et congres d' Hygiene et de Sauvetage

1876

Bezel wind wrist watch, c.1880

circa 1880

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Wrap reel/Hank winder

1877

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Jones 50-line switchboard, 1879.

1879

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

1878

Crossley telephone receiver, 1880

1880

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Boxwood fathom marker

1876

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Early telephone by Alexander Graham Bell, 1877.

1877

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

300 BCE; 1905-1915