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Light-bulb, filament, carbon

About 1890

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Marine thermometer by Negretti and Zambra

1890

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Novelty model

1955; 1830

model steam locomotive

1890

Copper ore from the Bell Mine

before 1889

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

before 1889

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Model steam locomotive

1890

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

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Oval badge

1891

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

model ner tennant locomotive

1890

Great Western Railway splasher plate

1889

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1889

Cupriferous sandstone from Schweinkopf

before 1889

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

Spark gap or knob coherer, 1889

1889

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Set of 8 brass handled

1890

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Kodak No 1 Camera

circa 1891

Rabbit in cabbage musical automaton

1890

Lancashire Boiler

1889

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Forth Bridge Railway Co. rivet from Forth Bridge

1888; 1984

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

2050-1750 BCE

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Model of an Assyrian kelek or raft of inflated ox-hides, one of three models of Babylonian vessels of skin

700 BCE; 1931