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Place
Material
Date

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Fowler's phrenological head

1879-1896

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

1884

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Enamel notice, Dinorwic Quarries Railway

1895

London & South Western Railway pathway notice

1896

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

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

circa 1885

Travelling tea case in leather case

1895

Light-bulb, filament, carbon

About 1890

A T & T national telephone directory, October 1896

1896

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

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

1896

Gold watch with tourbillon by Girard Perregaux

1879

Wise's Patent Train Staff

1886

Model steam locomotive

1882

Model ground signal, North London Railway

1888

Model steam locomotive

1890

model steam locomotive

1890

model crane - little elephant

1896

Brass worksplate no 917, Manning Wardle & Co

1884

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

Marine thermometer by Negretti and Zambra

1890

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

Crossley table telephone, 1879

1879

Coherer with coarse brass turnings, 1894

1894

Coherer, ebonite, with adjustable contacts, 1890-1896

1890-1896

Spiral spring coherer, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Ring transformer, 1892

1892

'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

Model steam locomotive, North Eastern Railway

1884

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Enamel watch depicting the Virgin and Child

1880

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Sample of Acid Yellow Dye

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Fairlie steam locomotive model

1879

Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

Syntonic Leyden jars, 1880-1889

1880-1889

Hertzian oscillator, 1890-1894

1890-1894