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Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Coherer with coarse brass turnings, 1894

1894

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Presentation scissors, SS Vienna

1894

Glass-stoppered bottle containing uranium

1801-1892 (prepared); 1946 (element replaced)

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Brake van, London & South Western Railway

1894

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

1934

Iron borings coherer (Branly type), 1894

1894

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

1705-1737

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Zither switch with open-wire multiple and two-motion ratchet drive, 1894

1894

Flat steel-spring (or watch-spring) coherer, 1894

1894

Iron borings coherer (Branly type), 1894

1894

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

London & North Western Railway insurance society

1894

Great Western Railway "Cornishman" Express Train, hauled by 4-4-2 No. 3046 "Lord of the Isles"

1899/12

Great Western Railway "Cornishman" Express Train, hauled by 4-4-2 No. 3046 "Lord of the Isles".

1899/12

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

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

Brass bubble-tube level by Davis, 1894

1894

Glass-stoppered bottle containing vanadium

1801-1892 (prepared); 1926 (element replaced)

Glass-stoppered bottle containing bromine

1801-1892 (prepared); 1926 (element replaced)

Crypto Bantam Cycle

1894

Small B. A. air condenser

1894

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Fay Sholes typewriter

circa 1894

Bust on wooden base of Andrew Ross

1859; 1986

John Weiss & Son

1894

Photograph: 'Cellular kites 1894'

1894

Admission ticket. Opening of the Tower Bridge

1894

Moving coil voltmeter

1894

Crompton cable-vulcanizing T.box

1894

Bronze handle, highly decorated, Romano-Egyptian

20-400

Chemical balance by Sartorius in glazed wooden case with black glass base

circa 1894

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

30-200

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

20-500

Olive ended probe, bronze, Romano-Egyptian

20-500

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

1972-3

Brass saccharometer by R.B. Bate

1915-1825