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Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

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

1825

model locomotion no 1

1825

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Phrenological head of unidentified individual

1824

Mail guard watch by George Littlewort

1825

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Handbill, Theatre Royal, Covent Garden

1824

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1705-1737

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

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

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

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Liverpool and Manchester Railway Plan 1824

1824-11-20

Watt's Pumping Engine 'Old Bess', 1777

1777 (original); 1894 (model)

Model of Mud House

6000-5000BCE

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

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Fowler, William Henry

1807 - 1904

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

Samuel Clegg Steam Engine Model

1825

William Hyde Wollaston

1824

Persian pottery measure

circa 3000 BCE

Persian pottery measure

circa 3000 BCE

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

Daisy

1864-04

Anthony Trolloppe (sic)

1864-10

Sir John Herschel

1867-04

The Dirty Monk', Alfred Lord Tennyson, May 1865

1865-05

Stone Sleeper, Stockton and Darlington Railway

1825

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