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Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Underwood 1 Typewriter, 1897

1897

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

circa 1897

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

1896

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

Early telephone by Alexander Graham Bell, 1877.

1877

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

Light-bulb, filament, carbon

About 1890

A T & T national telephone directory, October 1896

1896

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

1896

Gold watch with tourbillon by Girard Perregaux

1879

Enamel notice, Dinorwic Quarries Railway

1895

London & South Western Railway pathway notice

1896

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

1879

Wise's Patent Train Staff

1886

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

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Sample of Acid Yellow Dye

circa 1890

Travelling tea case in leather case

1895

Crossley table telephone, 1879

1879

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878

Coherer with coarse brass turnings, 1894

1894

Spiral spring coherer, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Hertzian receiving resonator, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Ring transformer, 1892

1892

Device for recording warder patrols in a Lunatic Asylum

1877-1897

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Shoehorn made from Rescued Brass from Thirsk Disaster

1892

Model steam locomotive, North Eastern Railway

1884

Hank Winding Machine

1897

Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

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

1880-1890

Brass worksplate no 917, Manning Wardle & Co

1884

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

1877

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Arithmometer by Elliott Brothers

1885-1894

Marine thermometer by Negretti and Zambra

1890

Experimental carbon pencil microphone, 1878-1890

1878-1890