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Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Stirling single locomotive wheel casting pattern, Great Northern Railway

1870

Obstetrical forceps

1870s

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

1871

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

'Over London-by Rail', Engraving, London, England, 1872

1872

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Novelty model

1955; 1830

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Bird cage from Sussex Lunatic Asylum

1872

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Great Northern Railway locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Nameplate, London & North Western Railway - "John Ramsbottom"

1872

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

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

1986 (replica); 1501-1600 (original)

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

1934

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

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

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

1870

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

York apprentices model train - North Eastern Railway

1870

Model of human eye

1870

Geometrical Groin Vault, string surface model

1872

Babbage's Analytical Engine, 1834-1871. (Trial model)

1871

A steam hammer at work

1871

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

Oesophageal forceps Durham's

1871-1830

Rigged model of the "Cutty Sark"

1900-1933 (model); 1869 (original)

Klinkerfues hygrometer

1870

Compass on gimbals

1872

Rotating spark

1872

Lockstitch sewing machine head of a Howe treadle driven machine

1871

Discharging rod, jointed

1872

Dipping needle with arc

1872

Substance resembling copper pyrites from a furnace bottom

1870

Magic lantern slide depicting Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Slide 17

1870s

Magic lantern slide depicting Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Walrus, Carpenter and Baby Oysters

1870s

Crystals resembling olivenite from a furnace bottom

1870

Clear glass "Smoke Bell"

1870

Clear glass "Smoke Bell", c.1870,

1870

Medal, lead, commemorating the refuges for infants and sucklings in Genoa

1870

Circular bronze medal

1870

Bronze prize medal awarded by Vienna Academy of Medicine and Surgery

1832-1850