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Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Light-bulb, filament, carbon

About 1890

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

Model vertical cylinder fire engine

circa 1885

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Marine thermometer by Negretti and Zambra

1890

Travelling tea case in leather case

1895

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Locomotive tender no. 1002, Great Northern Railway

1893

Parsons' steam turbine generator, 1884

1884

Silver medal, commemorates the International Health Exhibition

1884

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

1879

Brass worksplate no 917, Manning Wardle & Co

1884

Fairlie steam locomotive model

1879

Novelty model

1955; 1830

model steam locomotive

1890

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

1886-1887

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

circa 1880

Enamel notice, Dinorwic Quarries Railway

1895

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

Moldacot pocket sewing machine, 1887.

1886-1887

Copper ore from the Bell Mine

before 1889

Arithmometer by Elliott Brothers

1885-1894

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

before 1889

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

Crossley table telephone, 1879

1879

Coherer with coarse brass turnings, 1894

1894

Syntonic Leyden jars, 1880-1889

1880-1889

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Spiral spring coherer, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Hertzian receiving resonator, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Hertzian oscillator, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Gold watch with tourbillon by Girard Perregaux

1879

Ring transformer, 1892

1892

Enamel watch depicting the Virgin and Child

1880

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

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

1880-1890

Straight spectacles with bifocal perfection lenses

1885-1895

Meerschaum tobacco pipe

1880-1890

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Shoehorn made from Rescued Brass from Thirsk Disaster

1892

Wise's Patent Train Staff

1886

Model steam locomotive, North Eastern Railway

1884

Model steam locomotive

1882