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Model of Wright Flyer

1903

'Cat's whisker' Crystal Radio

1920-1925

Obsidian possibly used in trephination experiments

1918-1920

Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy Biplane

1919

Automatic telephone wall, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Strowger step-by-step automatic telephone exchange switch, 1897-1898

1897-1898

Rolls-Royce 10 hp, two cylinder motor car

1905

Artificial arm, below-elbow prosthesis

1895-1904

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Gecophone Crystal Detector Radio Set No. 1, 1923

1923

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Oxygen cylinder used by climbers on 1953 Mount Everest expedition

1952-3

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

1917

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

circa 1900

Hull Corporation telephone, 1900-1910

1900-1910

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Horseshoe magnet and keep used with experimental form of magnetic detector, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Model Great Northern Railway Centre-pivot Semaphore Signal

c.1912

Brennan's Gyroscopic Mono-rail Car

1907

Bottle of Hunyadi Janos mineral water, unopened

1900-1920

'Prorace' cervical cap

1915-1925

Steam locomotive, named Lode Star, Great Western Railway

1907

Pullman Car Company, called Topaz

1913

Timetable, Midland Railway

1903

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

Bo-Bo No 1

1902

Double surface of revolution of constant negative curvature

1910

Burroughs Class 5 hand operated mechanical adding machine with ten registers

1920-1925

Burroughs hand operated adding and listing machine

1917

Revolution of constant negative curvature

1910

Early model wooden-case comptometer by Felt and Tarrant Manufacturing Co.

1887-1903

model steam locomotive London, Brighton & South Coast Railway

1925

Impulse sender (dial), 1915

1915

Telephone crossbar switch, Swedish Ericsson, 1921

1921

A T & T national telephone directory, October 1896

1896

Strowger automatic telephone, 1901-1910

1901-1910

Strowger calling dial, 1906

1906

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

De Forest syntoniser, 1902-1907

1902-1907

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

1896

Wooden figure used as container for nkisi force

1890-1910

Carved figure of breastfeeding woman

1890-1920

Switchboard for German military portable X-ray apparatus

1914-1918

Dissecting microscope used by Sir Ronald Ross

1890-1910

Replica of 1903 Wright Brothers' aero engine

after 1903

Wise's Patent Train Staff

1886

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

model ship - dewsbury

1910

Tablet Stone, Moretonhampstead & South Devon Railway

1924