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Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

model locomotion no 1

1825

Steam locomotive No. 1 'Locomotion', Stockton & Darlington Railway

1825

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Phrenological head of unidentified individual

1824

Pair of turn pin spectacles

1823-1825

Phrenological head of Francis Gall

1823

Deck-watch used by Capt. William Parry during his attempt to reach the North Pole, 1827

1823

Mail guard watch by George Littlewort

1825

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Handbill, Theatre Royal, Covent Garden

1824

Bridge used to span the River Gaunless at West Auckland

1823-1825

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

1705-1737

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

the opening of the stockton and darlington railway

1825

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

1990-95

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

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

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

Liverpool and Manchester Railway Plan 1824

1824-11-20

Watt's Pumping Engine 'Old Bess', 1777

1777 (original); 1894 (model)

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

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Model of Mud House

6000-5000BCE

Fowler, William Henry

1807 - 1904

Description of a Railway on a New Principle

1823

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

1883-01

Photograph of Fern Leaf

1836-02

Lorina, Edith and Alice Liddel

1872-08

Observations on a General Iron Rail-way or Land Steam-Conveyance

1825

Reproduction of Joseph Priestley's oxygen apparatus

1774; 1923

Slide rule for calculation of treadwheel labour

1823

Samuel Clegg Steam Engine Model

1825

William Hyde Wollaston

1824

Persian pottery measure

circa 3000 BCE

Persian pottery measure

circa 3000 BCE

Spectacles

1823

Iron Weight

1910-130

RGD Television

1965-195

One of two Sumerian solid cylindrical weights

circa 2000 BCE

2 circular plaster casts of the 2 halves of a Greek coin

700-100 BCE; 1930-1950

Stella Projection Television Receiver, Type ST1481

1950-159

Poncelet's Water Wheel, 1824

1824 (original); 1891 (model)

'Your Carry', 1867

1867-04

W Holman Hunt in his Eastern dress

1864-05