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Material
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Cotton Bale Breaker

1911

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

1916

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Sample of Acid Yellow Dye

circa 1890

Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

circa 1900

Platt Brothers Notice

1898

Platt Brothers Notice

1899

Replica of 1903 Wright Brothers' aero engine

after 1903

GNR Railway Poster, The Skegness Cure

1911

Circular electric hot plate for domestic cooking

1892-1900

Ring spinning frame

1901

Water pipe from Water Street, Manchester

1890-1899

Marine thermometer by Negretti and Zambra

1890

Billi condenser used for aerial tuning in Newfoundland, 1901

1901

Filings coherer, glass tube bent into U-shape at one end, 1894-1904

1894-1904

Coherer with coarse brass turnings, 1894

1894

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

De Forest audion 1906-1915

1906-1915

Filings coherer, glass tube almost of taper shape, 1894-1904

1894-1904

Steljes ABC type printing telegraph receiver No. 477

1895-1910

National Telephone Company directory, 1898-1899

1898-1899

Marconi coherer and Admiralty pattern decoherer, 1900-1910

1900-1910

A T & T national telephone directory, October 1896

1896

Filings coherer, Lodge-Muirhead system, 1900-1910

1900-1910

Filings coherer, glass tube containing powdered copper, bulb at one end, 1894-1904

1894-1904

Hertzian receiving resonator, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Model steam locomotive

1890

Filings coherer, Lodge pattern with two wires inserted into bulb at one end, 1894-1904

1894-1904

Carved wooden fetish doll or "Akua Mma"

1890-1910

Copper plaque stamped with a Latin cross for protection against cholera

1900-1909

De Forest syntoniser, 1902-1907

1902-1907

Coherer, ebonite, with adjustable contacts, 1890-1896

1890-1896

Coherer, narrow-bore glass tube, 1894-1904

1894-1904

Full dentures, England, 1890-1900

1890-1900

Experimental transmitting ‘jigger’ used by the Marconi Company, 1899

1899

Filings coherer, small glass tube with bulb at one end and cap of red sealing wax at other end, 1898

1898

Five-line single cord switchboard, 1900-1909

1900-1909

Receiving ‘jigger’ used by the Marconi Company, 1899

1899

Selector switch, 1903

1903

Chromolithograph: Amalgamated Society of Engineers Machinists ... by Blades

1904

Ring transformer, 1892

1892

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Filings coherer, glass tube with side-pocket attached to mounting bracket, 1894-1904

1894-1904

Filings coherer, glass tube bent into U-shape at one end with bulb to form side-pocket on mounting bracket with terminals, 1894-1904

1894-1904

Strowger automatic telephone, 1901-1910

1901-1910

Impulse sender (dial), 1915

1915