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Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

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

1705-1737

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Enamel notice, Dinorwic Quarries Railway

1895

London & South Western Railway pathway notice

1896

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

1896

Copper ore from the Bell Mine

before 1889

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

before 1889

Light-bulb, filament, carbon

About 1890

Marine thermometer by Negretti and Zambra

1890

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

A T & T national telephone directory, October 1896

1896

Coherer with coarse brass turnings, 1894

1894

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Coherer, ebonite, with adjustable contacts, 1890-1896

1890-1896

Spiral spring coherer, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

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

1896

Ring transformer, 1892

1892

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Shoehorn made from Rescued Brass from Thirsk Disaster

1892

Model ground signal, North London Railway

1888

Model steam locomotive

1890

model steam locomotive

1890

model crane - little elephant

1896

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Sample of Acid Yellow Dye

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

Travelling tea case in leather case

1895

Hertzian oscillator, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Hertzian receiving resonator, 1890-1894

1890-1894

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Presentation scissors, SS Vienna

1894

Model twin-screw steamship 'Kirkham', Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway

1896

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Great Western Railway splasher plate

1889

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

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

1889

Brake van, London & South Western Railway

1894

Cupriferous sandstone from Schweinkopf

before 1889

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Glass-stoppered bottle containing uranium

1801-1892 (prepared); 1946 (element replaced)