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Category
Collection
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Place
Material
Date

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

1884

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

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

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

circa 1885

Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

The Demon Detective camera

1889

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

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Wise's Patent Train Staff

1886

Model ground signal, North London Railway

1888

Great Western Railway splasher plate

1889

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

Watch by Sir John Bennett

1884

Spagnoletti intermediate signalling instrument

1885

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

1934

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Cupriferous sandstone from Schweinkopf

before 1889

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Spark gap or knob coherer, 1889

1889

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

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

1990-95

Parsons' steam turbine generator, 1884

1884

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Rigged model of the "Cutty Sark"

1900-1933 (model); 1869 (original)

Lancashire Boiler

1889

Crossley Horizontal Single-cylinder Engine

1886

Faraday's Disc Electrical Generator

1889

Midland Railway composite carriage

1885

Whitworth Measuring Machine

1889

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Boy's and Rucker's three figure signal cyclometer

1884-1886

Bessemer steel rail section tested for the Great Northern Railway Company

before 1889

Model, rigged, of the sailing ship 'Sudbourn'

1884

Etching, hand-coloured. Gurney's New Steam Carriage. Annotated

1885

Lock stitch sewing machine head with step feed for sewing leather or other heavy work

1888