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'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1934

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Islay shipwreck components

1857

Portrait bust of Henry Maudslay

before 1857

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Model of a Power Loom for Plain Weaving

1857

Magneto-electrometer, 1857

1857

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

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

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

1990-95

Model of a Montgolfier Balloon, 1783

First Public Demonstration of a Montgolfier Balloon, 4th June, 1783.

1783; 1914

Watercolour illustration of the interior of Scutari Hospital, Albania, 1857

1857

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Commemorative plate featuring French chemist Baron Thenard

1857

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Archibald Young

1857

Solid bronze phallic amulet in form of priapus with hind legs and tail of horse

30-200

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

Bronze probe(?), twisted stem, Romano-Egyptian

20-500

Olive ended probe, bronze, Romano-Egyptian

20-500

Black stone container or palette

2000-1000

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

3500-1000

Plaster model of tomb plaque

100 BCE-300 CE; 1890-1920

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

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

1972-3

Small stone scarab pierced longitudinally with flat base engraved with design of standing harpist and seated figure

2000-1000

Haighton obstetrical forceps

1870-1850

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Mezzotint. Portrait of Sir Francis Beaufort FRS 1774-1857. By S. Pearce

1857

Welsh's vertical force magnetograph by Adie, 1857

1857

Canklow Mill from the Railway Bank

1857

Oesophageal forceps Durham's

1871-1830

Brass saccharometer by R.B. Bate

1915-1825

Uterine probe

1901-950