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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

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

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

1877

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Wrap reel/Hank winder

1877

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)

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

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

Rigged model of the "Cutty Sark"

1900-1933 (model); 1869 (original)

Copy of Amperes commutator

1877

Bronze prize medal awarded by Vienna Academy of Medicine and Surgery

1832-1850

Medal, bronze, marking centenary of death of Albrecht von Haller

1877

Alabaster kohl pot

2000-1350

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

1883-01

Whole rigged model of the clipper ship 'Stonehouse'

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

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

1972-3

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Shell used as Ink and Paint Well, Egypt, 3000 BCE

3000 BCE

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

1990-95

Planting and manufacturing of indigo: Beating by Machinery

1877

Planting and manufacturing of indigo: Cutting Indigo into Cakes

1877

Planting and manufacturing of indigo: Pressing the fecula

1877

Planting and manufacturing of indigo: Bailing water in time of drought

1877

Planting and manufacturing of indigo: Indigo factory (beating the Vats)

1877

Planting and manufacturing of indigo: Tumnie (turning up lands)

1877

Planting and manufacturing of indigo: Group of Indigo beaters

1877

Planting and manufacturing of indigo: Persian Wheel

1877

Planting and manufacturing of indigo: Luggie (measuring lands for cultivation)

1877

Planting and manufacturing of indigo: Planter's Bungalow

1877

Planting and manufacturing of indigo: Press house

1877

Planting and manufacturing of indigo: Sowing with drills

1877

Ten-centesimo (one tenth dollar) coin of the Republic of Uruguay

1877

Fifty-centesimo (half dollar) coin of the Republic of Uruguay

1877

Twenty-centesimo (one fifth dollar) coin of the Republic of Uruguay

1877

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Simple aquatic microscope, with box-foot stand

1795-1805

Bust on wooden base of Andrew Ross

1859; 1986

Sample of Steel made by the Gilchrist Process, 1877

1877