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Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Sample of Acid Yellow Dye

circa 1890

Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

Marine thermometer by Negretti and Zambra

1890

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Model steam locomotive

1890

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

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

model steam locomotive

1890

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

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

1886-1887

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

before 1889

Light-bulb, filament, carbon

About 1890

Copper ore from the Bell Mine

before 1889

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

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

1705-1737

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

1934

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Spark gap or knob coherer, 1889

1889

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

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

1889

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

model ner tennant locomotive

1890

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Set of 8 brass handled

1890

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Great Western Railway splasher plate

1889

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Cupriferous sandstone from Schweinkopf

before 1889

Cobalt ore from New Caledonia

before 1889

Early rotary action light switch

1890

Muirhead Clark standard cell

1888

Cambridge Instrument Co. "Round Compensator", 1890

1890

Model of A.C. meter in which a rotating field is produced by an electromagnet with "shaded" poles

1889

Apparatus for earth induction

1887

Vertical contact switch, 1886

1886

Boxwood ceiling rose, 1888

1888