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Wise's Patent Train Staff

1886

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Sample of Acid Yellow Dye

circa 1890

Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

Shoehorn made from Rescued Brass from Thirsk Disaster

1892

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

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

1878

Ring transformer, 1892

1892

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Model steam locomotive

1890

Model steam locomotive

1882

Brass worksplate no 917, Manning Wardle & Co

1884

Model steam locomotive, North Eastern Railway

1884

Model ground signal, North London Railway

1888

model steam locomotive

1890

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

circa 1880

Light-bulb, filament, carbon

About 1890

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

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

circa 1885

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

1879

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

1876

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

1886-1887

Silver medal, commemorates the International Health Exhibition

1884

Marine thermometer by Negretti and Zambra

1890

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Experimental carbon block microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

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

1880-1890

Syntonic Leyden jars, 1880-1889

1880-1889

Powdered graphite microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Experimental carbon pencil microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Experimental microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Experimental microphones with carbon pencils and cups, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Granular microphone in glass tube, 1878-1890

1878-1890

Crossley table telephone, 1879

1879

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

1877

Fairlie steam locomotive model

1879

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

1876

Model vertical cylinder fire engine

circa 1885

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Meerschaum tobacco pipe

1880-1890

Copper ore from the Bell Mine

before 1889

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

before 1889