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Place
Material
Date

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Wise's Patent Train Staff

1886

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Model ground signal, North London Railway

1888

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

Silver medal, commemorates the International Health Exhibition

1884

Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

Model steam locomotive, North Eastern Railway

1884

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Model vertical cylinder fire engine

circa 1885

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

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Brass worksplate no 917, Manning Wardle & Co

1884

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

circa 1885

Spagnoletti intermediate signalling instrument

1885

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

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

1889

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

1884

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

1705-1737

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Plaster model of a human eye, France, 1884

1884

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Cupriferous sandstone from Schweinkopf

before 1889

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

Spark gap or knob coherer, 1889

1889

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

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

1934

Great Western Railway splasher plate

1889

Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.

2500 BCE

Silver coloured metal

1884

Vertical contact switch, 1886

1886

Oulton-Edmundson electric meter, 1889 (No.507)

1889

Lampholder by Dorman and Smith, Manchester, 1888

1888

Boxwood ceiling rose, 1888

1888

Lancaster Patent Instantaneous Landscape Lens

circa 1885

Fletcher & Co. gas cooker

circa 1885

Crystals of arsenious acid. From Eldridge Mine

before 1889

Replica Tachyscope

1889