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Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Pasteur-Chamberland-type water filter

1884-1900

Vertical Compound Steam Engine with Hackworth's Valve Gear, 1898

1898

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Ceramic tile map of North Eastern Railway

circa 1900

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)

Underwood 1 Typewriter, 1897

1897

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

Water Pipe

1890 - 1900

Brass worksplate no 917, Manning Wardle & Co

1884

Wagon owners plate, Shell-Mex & BP

1901

Model of fog signal machine and repeater

1900

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Enamel notice, Dinorwic Quarries Railway

1895

London & South Western Railway pathway notice

1896

Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

circa 1897

BP tank wagon

1901

Bo-Third Rail No D75S

1898

South Eastern & Chatham Railway Class D 4-4-0 steam locomotive No 737

1901

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

1896

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

Light-bulb, filament, carbon

About 1890

Marine thermometer by Negretti and Zambra

1890

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

A T & T national telephone directory, October 1896

1896

National Telephone Company directory, 1898-1899

1898-1899

Coherer with coarse brass turnings, 1894

1894

Filings coherer, Lodge pattern, 1895-1900

1895-1900

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Filings coherer, glass tube formed into T-shape at one end and bent round into U-shape at other end with bulb, 1899

1899

Coherer, ebonite, with adjustable contacts, 1890-1896

1890-1896

Spiral spring coherer, 1890-1894

1890-1894

'Italian Navy' detector, 1899-1901

1899-1901

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Filings coherer, small glass tube with bulb at one end and cap of red sealing wax at other end, 1898

1898

Mystery watch by Armand Schwob & Frère

1900

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

1896

Ring transformer, 1892

1892

English lever escapement watch with Karrusel by S Smith and Son

1897

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Full dentures, England, 1890-1900

1890-1900

Anthropomorphic iris root

1891-1900

Straight spectacles with bifocal perfection lenses

1885-1895

Water pipe from Water Street, Manchester

1890-1899