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Material
Date

Cotton Bale Breaker

1911

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

1916

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Wrapping block

circa 1920

Sample of Acid Yellow Dye

circa 1890

Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

circa 1900

Platt Brothers Notice

1898

Platt Brothers Notice

1899

Woollen shawl

1880-1920

Replica of 1903 Wright Brothers' aero engine

after 1903

GNR Railway Poster, The Skegness Cure

1911

Silver medal, commemorates the International Health Exhibition

1884

Circular electric hot plate for domestic cooking

1892-1900

Hand-operated mill for grinding coffee beans

1880-1900

Sugar nippers, 19th century.

1880-1900

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

Ring spinning frame

1901

Water pipe from Water Street, Manchester

1890-1899

Marine thermometer by Negretti and Zambra

1890

Billi condenser used for aerial tuning in Newfoundland, 1901

1901

Telephone crossbar switch, Swedish Ericsson, 1921

1921

Device for recording warder patrols in a Lunatic Asylum

1877-1897

Filings coherer, glass tube bent into U-shape at one end, 1894-1904

1894-1904

Coherer with coarse brass turnings, 1894

1894

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Wall telephone, 1880-1920

1880-1920

Experimental carbon block microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890

De Forest audion 1906-1915

1906-1915

Filings coherer, glass tube almost of taper shape, 1894-1904

1894-1904

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

1880-1890

Steljes ABC type printing telegraph receiver No. 477

1895-1910

National Telephone Company directory, 1898-1899

1898-1899

Marconi coherer and Admiralty pattern decoherer, 1900-1910

1900-1910

A T & T national telephone directory, October 1896

1896

Filings coherer, Lodge-Muirhead system, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Filings coherer, glass tube containing powdered copper, bulb at one end, 1894-1904

1894-1904

Mechanical telephone, 1880-1920

1880-1920

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Syntonic Leyden jars, 1880-1889

1880-1889

Magneto-ringing Ericsson telephone, 1892-1920

1892-1920

Hertzian receiving resonator, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Model steam locomotive

1890

Filings coherer, Lodge pattern with two wires inserted into bulb at one end, 1894-1904

1894-1904

Carved wooden fetish doll or "Akua Mma"

1890-1910

Copper plaque stamped with a Latin cross for protection against cholera

1900-1909

De Forest syntoniser, 1902-1907

1902-1907

Coherer, ebonite, with adjustable contacts, 1890-1896

1890-1896