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

circa 1880

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

circa 1885

Wise's Patent Train Staff

1886

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Model steam locomotive

1882

Model steam locomotive, North Eastern Railway

1884

Model ground signal, North London Railway

1888

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Brass worksplate no 917, Manning Wardle & Co

1884

Silver medal, commemorates the International Health Exhibition

1884

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Syntonic Leyden jars, 1880-1889

1880-1889

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Model vertical cylinder fire engine

circa 1885

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

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

1886-1887

Copper ore from the Bell Mine

before 1889

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

before 1889

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Curved bottom polishing iron, c.1880

1880

Lowdown Suite W.C. pedestal and tank

1882

Set of wheels from Blenkinsop Railway locomotive

1880

Bezel wind wrist watch, c.1880

circa 1880

Great Western Railway splasher plate

1889

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Tailboard, North Eastern Railway

1880

Spagnoletti intermediate signalling instrument

1885

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Lancashire Loom

circa 1880

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

1880

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

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

1705-1737

Crossley telephone receiver, 1880

1880

Spark gap or knob coherer, 1889

1889

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Plaster model of a human eye, France, 1884

1884

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

1934

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

Tank wagon, North Eastern Railway - Shell-Mex and BP Ltd

1889

Cupriferous sandstone from Schweinkopf

before 1889

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'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