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Swannington Incline Winding Engine, Leicester & Swannington Railway, 1832

1832

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Replica of 16th century German 'Hund' wagon, 1986

1986 (replica); 1501-1600 (original)

Silver snuff box, United Kingdom, presented in 1832

1832

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1705-1737

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

'Royal Address of Cadwallader ap-Tudor ap-Edwards ap-Vaughan, Water-King of Southwark', print, London, England, 1832

1832

Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877

1870-1877

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

Propelling pencil, in memory of Benjamin Ridge

1832

Wood tobacco pipe

1860-1820

Oesophageal forceps Durham's

1871-1830

Medal, silver, awarded by the Cholera Commission of Amsterdam 1872

1832

Bronze medal commemorating the tenth Convention of the Society of German Naturalists and Doctors

1832

Bronze medal

1832

Silver medal

1832

Circular bronze medal

1832

Alabaster kohl pot

2000-1350

Walker's Railway Time Table, and Coach, Omnibus and Carriers' List

1883-01

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

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

1990-95

W Holman Hunt in his Eastern dress

1864-05

Sir John Herschel

1867-04

Daisy

1864-04

'Your Carry', 1867

1867-04

May - Study No 167

1870-10

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Simple aquatic microscope, with box-foot stand

1795-1805

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

Small black slate palette with short handle and base carved in form of flat fish

3500-1000

Silver medal commemorating cholera commission of Amsterdam

1832

Flint hand tool

8500-2000 BCE

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Portrait lithograph print of Claude Louis Berthollet, 1832

1832

Small Stone Age

8500-2000 BCE

Flint hand tool, flake type, Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE

Flint hand tool, side-scraper, made in the Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE

Small Stone Age

8500-2000 BCE

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE