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Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Novelty model

1955; 1830

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Model of machine for making drain pipes

1851

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

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

1870-1877

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

1934

Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Poster advertising lectures on phrenology, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, 1851

1851

'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851

1851

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

May - Study No 167

1870-10

Lorina, Edith and Alice Liddel

1872-08

Sluice gate from Longdendale reservoirs

circa 1851

Lord of the Isles

1851

Silk playbill for Newcastle Theatre Royal, 30 January 1856

1856-01

Uterine probe

1901-950

Roman stone water main

30

table of rates and charges

1857/07

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

1883-01

Andre-Marie Ampere

1825; 1910

Note from Mr Droffnore

1851

The Conway Tubular Bridge on the Chester and Holyhead Railway

1851

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

1877 (copy); 1700-1731 (original)

Moon: Aristarchus

1851

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Rain gauge square section

1851

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Great Tubular Bridge across the Menai Strait, Chester and Holyhead Railway

1851

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Poncelet's Water Wheel, 1824

1824 (original); 1891 (model)

Calf's Head Weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931

Plaster replica of black Basalt Cubit Rod 531

1931; 250 BCE

Plaster replica of IBEX weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931

Box of microweights for rain gauge testing. 8 missing from set of 15

after 1851

Figure of Alexander Humboldt

1851

Black stone container or palette

2000-1000