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Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

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 railway turntable

1850

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Railway bridge section

1850

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Four-Wheeled Hand Crane

1850

Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge

circa 1850

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson

circa 1850s

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

1934

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Lead weight marked 'Reid' from the first cross-Channel telegraph cable, 1850.

1850

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

1705-1737

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

1850

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

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

Portrait of Constance Garstin in Darjeeling, India

1861-08

James Joule's Ring Weight

1850

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

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

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

Fortin mountain barometer in brass case

1850

Barograph by Moritz Pillischer, 1850

1850

Bourdon's aneroid barometer

1850

Harwich

1850

Public Dinner to Robert Stephenson

1850/08/10

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

Miners dial

circa 1850

One framed copy "Print of Paddington Station in 1850"

1850

3-inch refracting telescope

circa 1850

Monaural stethoscope

1850

Pivoted Pince-Nez Glasses

1850

Folding Pince-Nez Glasses

1850

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

1991-1786 BCE

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

1877 (copy); 1700-1731 (original)