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Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

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

Full size wooden model of Beloe's double rail and chair

1877

Novelty model

1955; 1830

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1934

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Wrap reel/Hank winder

1877

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

1705-1737

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Early telephone by Alexander Graham Bell, 1877.

1877

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

1990-95

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

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

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

Whole rigged model of the clipper ship 'Stonehouse'

1866 (original) 1871 (model); 1906 (rigging modified)

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Replica of Edison's First Phonograph, 1877.

1877

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Medal commemorating Cajetan Freiherr von Felder

1877

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

1901-1936; 180 BCE

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

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

Alluard's dew point hygrometer

1877

Campbell sunshine records for 1877

1877

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

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)

Portion of the wheel of a 20 H.P. Thomson "Vortex" Water Turbine

1877

Twelve German jetons, 16th century.

1501-1600; 1978

Simple aquatic microscope, with box-foot stand

1795-1805

Copy of a cippus showing Horus, Egypt, 1900-1933

1900-1933

Sample of Steel made by the Gilchrist Process, 1877

1877

Cast-Iron Gas Standard Lamp

1877

Sample of Steel made by the Gilchrist Process, 1877

1877

Sample of Steel made by the Gilchrist Process, 1877

1877

Sample of Steel made by the Gilchrist Process, 1877

1877

Broken fragment of terracotta possibly lamp

30-300

Copy of a bloodletting measuring device, England, 1977

1977; 1204-1206

Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.

2500 BCE

Lever watch in pair case with crank roller

1800-1830

Lever watch in case

1800-1830

Small Stone Age

8500-2000 BCE

Flint hand tool, side-scraper, made in the Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE

Flint hand tool, side-scraper, made in the Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE

Flint hand tool

8500-2000 BCE