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Category
Collection
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Place
Material
Date

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

1884

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

1705-1737

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

Brass worksplate no 917, Manning Wardle & Co

1884

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Copper ore from the Bell Mine

before 1889

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

before 1889

Light-bulb, filament, carbon

About 1890

Marine thermometer by Negretti and Zambra

1890

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

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

Meerschaum tobacco pipe

1880-1890

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Wise's Patent Train Staff

1886

Model steam locomotive, North Eastern Railway

1884

Model steam locomotive

1882

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

circa 1885

Model ground signal, North London Railway

1888

Model steam locomotive

1890

model steam locomotive

1890

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

circa 1880

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

1886-1887

Silver medal, commemorates the International Health Exhibition

1884

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Model vertical cylinder fire engine

circa 1885

Sample of Acid Yellow Dye

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

Syntonic Leyden jars, 1880-1889

1880-1889

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Tailboard, North Eastern Railway

1880

Set of wheels from Blenkinsop Railway locomotive

1880

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Great Western Railway splasher plate

1889

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

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

1889

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

1880

Cupriferous sandstone from Schweinkopf

before 1889