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Photos: What gadgets were the Victorians using?
Self pouring teapots, periscope glasses and fire grenades...

By Tim Ferguson

Published: Thursday 14 August 2008

Here Maurice Collins shows off an automatic page turner from 1880 which turns pages in a book at the flick of a lever.

Collins had been collecting old gadgets for around 35 years after starting out with an antique bottle collection.

Photo credit: Tim Ferguson