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'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

model locomotion no 1

1825

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Phrenological head of Francis Gall

1823

Phrenological head of unidentified individual

1824

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

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

1823

Mail guard watch by George Littlewort

1825

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Pair of turn pin spectacles

1823-1825

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

2050-1750 BCE

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

1990-95

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

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

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

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Hand loom for silk weaving with Jacquard machine

c.1825

Model of a Phoenician bireme ship

1845-1964

Lithograph 'Blasting Rocks, Linslade, Bucks, October 1837', by J C Bourne, 1837

1837-10

Commemorative trowel used to lay the first stone of the Thames Tunnel

1825

Gold amulet in the form of Duamutef, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

2000-100 BCE

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

1883-01

Slide rule for calculation of treadwheel labour

1823

Wooden backstaff or Davis quadrant made by John Gilbert on Tower Hill

1730; 1967

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

Description of a Railway on a New Principle

1823

Revised Classification of Merchandise Traffic and Revised Schedule of Maximum Rates and Charges Applicable thereto, proposed to be charged by the Eastern and Midlands Railway Company

1889-02

Samuel Clegg Steam Engine Model

1825

William Hyde Wollaston

1824

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Augustin Jean Fresnel (Physicien)

1824

Frederick W. Trench. A lithographic sketch of the North Bank of the Thames

1825

Reversible axe on adze, green stone blade, North Papua (Astrolabe Bay)

2000 BCE

Captain Franklin RN FRS

1824

Engraving. Plan

1824

Bronze medal commemorating a charitable organisation or society

1825

Lithograph, The Railway at Cheshunt in Hertfordshire

1825

The Geological lecture room, Oxford

1823

Mr. Peter Nicholson

1825

Portrait, part of the Woodcroft Collection "Gallery of Portraits" etc. Wilson Lowry. Engraving by Linnell

1825