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Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Model vertical cylinder fire engine

circa 1885

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

'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

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Wise's Patent Train Staff

1886

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

circa 1885

Model ground signal, North London Railway

1888

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

1886-1887

Moldacot pocket sewing machine, 1887.

1886-1887

Copper ore from the Bell Mine

before 1889

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

before 1889

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Model steam locomotive, North Eastern Railway

1884

Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

Parsons' steam turbine generator, 1884

1884

Silver medal, commemorates the International Health Exhibition

1884

Brass worksplate no 917, Manning Wardle & Co

1884

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

1884

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

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

1934

Spagnoletti intermediate signalling instrument

1885

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)

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

1889

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

1705-1737

Cupriferous sandstone from Schweinkopf

before 1889

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Plaster model of a human eye, France, 1884

1884

Spark gap or knob coherer, 1889

1889

Watch by Sir John Bennett

1884

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Lancashire Boiler

1889

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Photograph of Karl Benz

circa 1885

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Forth Bridge Railway Co. rivet from Forth Bridge

1888; 1984