Image
Category
Collection
Maker
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

circa 1897

East Coast Joint Stock, 3rd Class railway carriage, 1898

1898

Platt Brothers Notice

1899

Bo-Third Rail No D75S

1898

Ceramic tile map of North Eastern Railway

circa 1900

Model of fog signal machine and repeater

1900

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Filings coherer, glass tube formed into T-shape at one end and bent round into U-shape at other end with bulb, 1899

1899

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

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

1898

Mystery watch by Armand Schwob & Frère

1900

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Platt Brothers Notice

1898

Model steam

1899

Hank Winding Machine

1897

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

circa 1900

National Telephone Company directory, 1898-1899

1898-1899

English lever escapement watch with Karrusel by S Smith and Son

1897

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Morse tape on which signals were recorded by means of a coherer, 1900

1900

Receiving ‘jigger’ used by the Marconi Company, 1899

1899

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

1899

Brass worksplate no 1517, Manning Wardle & Co

1900

Tiled mural, North Staffordshire Railway

1897

Portrait bust of Sir John Hawkshaw

1899

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Dining Car number 76, London & North Western Railway

1900

Felt and Tarrant Comptometer, 1887.

circa 1900

Replica of a hobby-horse cycle

circa 1900

Block instrument (lock and block)

1897

Stained glass panel from Gorton Works

1897

Stained glass panel from Gorton Works

1897

Platt Brothers Notice

1899

Braiding Machine

circa 1900

Great Western Railway locomotive headlamp

1897

Great Western Railway locomotive headlamp

1897

Yarn Balance

circa 1900

Section of cross-Channel telephone cable, 1897

1897

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

1934

Casket presented to Francis William Webb

1899

Glass-stoppered bottle containing uranium

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

Strowger step-by-step automatic telephone exchange switch, 1897-1898

1897-1898

Filings coherer, glass tube formed into bulbs at each end at right angles, 1899

1899

Filings coherer, glass tube, 1898

1898

Filings coherer, glass tube bent at 45-degree angle at one end to form side-pocket, 1898

1898

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Brake composite/observation saloon

1897

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

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

1705-1737