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Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878

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

1878

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Crossley table telephone, 1879

1879

Fairlie steam locomotive model

1879

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

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

1879

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

Pair of Bell telephones, 1878

1878

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1934

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

1705-1737

Edison telephone peg switchboard and pegs, 1879

1879

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Saw bench

1879

Panorama de Paris

1878

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

1878

Jones 50-line switchboard, 1879.

1879

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Lawson 'Bicyclette', 1879

1879

Wooden backstaff or Davis quadrant made by John Gilbert on Tower Hill

1730; 1967

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3

Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.

2500 BCE

Length of red silk ribbon worn as a belt to promote general good health

1880-120

Telephone receiver

1879

Brass saccharometer by R.B. Bate

1915-1825

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Uterine probe

1901-950

Lever watch in pair case with crank roller

1800-1830

Cylinder watch in case with thin horizontal movement

1801-1850

Lever watch in case

1800-1830

Bust on wooden base of Andrew Ross

1859; 1986

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Mayer & Meltzer

1879

Telephone set with Edison's electro-motograph receiver (handle missing)

1879

Specimen Natal-Aden cable, 1879

1879

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

Bell Telephone

1878

D. Halpin's patent

1879

Paris-New York Telegraph Share Certificate, 27 March 1879.

1879