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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

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Model steam

1899

Filings coherer, glass tube formed into T-shape at one end and bent round into U-shape at other end with bulb, 1899

1899

Platt Brothers Notice

1899

Receiving ‘jigger’ used by the Marconi Company, 1899

1899

Experimental transmitting ‘jigger’ used by the Marconi Company, 1899

1899

Glass-stoppered bottle containing uranium

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

Portrait bust of Sir John Hawkshaw

1899

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)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Platt Brothers Notice

1899

Filings coherer, glass tube formed into bulbs at each end at right angles, 1899

1899

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

Watch with complications and minute repeating by Samuel Smith & Son

1899

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Casket presented to Francis William Webb

1899

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

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

1990-95

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Model of a Montgolfier Balloon, 1783

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

1783; 1914

Medal to commemorate Josef Weinlechner

1899

Bronze medal bearing bust of Carol I of Romania and list of new government ministers

1899

Vanity Fair chromolithograph portrait, Comte De Dion

1899

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Bust on wooden base of Andrew Ross

1859; 1986

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Keystone typewriter

1899

Picht Braille typewriter

1899

Merritt typewriter, 1899

1899

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

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

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

1972-3

Brown's interpolator, 1899

1899

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

2000-1000