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Category
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Place
Material
Date

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

The Demon Detective camera

1889

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

1896

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Fowler's phrenological head

1879-1896

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

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

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

London & South Western Railway pathway notice

1896

Silver medal, commemorates the International Health Exhibition

1884

Fairlie steam locomotive model

1879

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Model vertical cylinder fire engine

circa 1885

Copper ore from the Bell Mine

before 1889

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

before 1889

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Crossley table telephone, 1879

1879

Coherer with coarse brass turnings, 1894

1894

Syntonic Leyden jars, 1880-1889

1880-1889

Coherer, ebonite, with adjustable contacts, 1890-1896

1890-1896

Spiral spring coherer, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Hertzian receiving resonator, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Hertzian oscillator, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Straight spectacles with bifocal perfection lenses

1885-1895

Meerschaum tobacco pipe

1880-1890

model crane - little elephant

1896

Arithmometer by Elliott Brothers

1885-1894

Light-bulb, filament, carbon

About 1890

Marine thermometer by Negretti and Zambra

1890

A T & T national telephone directory, October 1896

1896

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

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

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

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Shoehorn made from Rescued Brass from Thirsk Disaster

1892