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Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Whitworth Planing Machine

circa 1842

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

London & Birmingham Railway pocket watch

1842

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

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Station bell, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1842

great north of england railway bye laws notice

1842

Decorated keystone from South Stockton arch, Thornaby station

1842

Cooke and Wheatstone double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Wooden gable, Brandling Junction Railway

1842

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Wheatstone ABC telegraph receiver, 1942

1842

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

1705-1737

Two lancets in a patterned silver case

1844

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

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

1870-1877

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

1990-95

Queen Adelaide's Saloon, No. 2

1842

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Drawing of Singhi Dalan in Rajmahal, Jharkhand, India

1856-11

Replica of Lightning Conductor by Benjamin Franklin, United States, 1730-1760

1730-1760 (original); 1931-1939 (replica)

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Model of a Phoenician bireme ship

1845-1964

Plaster model of the lunar surface

1844

Portrait of Constance Garstin in Darjeeling, India

1861-08

Bronze prize medal by N. Gerbara

1842

The Gwaliar Campaign Star

1843

Copy of forceps made from an Egyptian sculpture, Kom-Ombos, Egypt, 1901-1936

1901-1936; 180 BCE

Casts of Chinese zodiac figures (Tang dynasty)

1871-1900 (copy); 618-907 CE (original)

Casts of Chinese zodiac figures (Tang dynasty)

1871-1900 (copy); 618-907 CE (original)

Casts of Chinese zodiac figures (Tang dynasty)

1871-1900 (copy); 618-907 CE (original)

Wood tobacco pipe

1860-1820

Wheatstone's original bridge

1843

Model of Henry Cavendish's Torsion Balance Gravitational Apparatus, 1798

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

Electrical recording mercury-in-glass weather balloon thermometer, 1843

1843

Coloured engraving of Henson's Flying Machine Ariel

1843

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

Stone slab with seven holes for cosmetic ointments, Egypt, 1991-1786 BCE

1991-1786 BCE

Joule's Electro-Magnet (Calorimeter) Apparatus, 1843

1843

Copy of Musschenbroek's Pyrometer (Dilatometer), 1700-1731.

1877 (copy); 1700-1731 (original)

Twelve German jetons, 16th century.

1501-1600; 1978

Simple aquatic microscope, with box-foot stand

1795-1805