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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

A T & T national telephone directory, October 1896

1896

Model steam locomotive

1890

Travelling tea case in leather case

1895

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

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

Ring transformer, 1892

1892

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Hertzian receiving resonator, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Coherer, ebonite, with adjustable contacts, 1890-1896

1890-1896

Hertzian oscillator, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Spiral spring coherer, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Coherer with coarse brass turnings, 1894

1894

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Light-bulb, filament, carbon

About 1890

Copper ore from the Bell Mine

before 1889

Cape Government locomotive and tender 4-8-0, 1896

1896

model crane - little elephant

1896

Shoehorn made from Rescued Brass from Thirsk Disaster

1892

Hank Winding Machine

1897

Enamel notice, Dinorwic Quarries Railway

1895

London & South Western Railway pathway notice

1896

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Carding Engine

1896

Oval badge

1891

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

1705-1737

Zither switch with open-wire multiple and two-motion ratchet drive, 1894

1894

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

Section of cross-Channel telephone cable, 1897

1897

Great Western Railway locomotive headlamp

1897

Stained glass panel from Gorton Works

1897

Ottawa & Gatineau Valley Railway commemorative salver

1893

Presentation scissors, SS Vienna

1894

Block instrument (lock and block)

1897

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)