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Rocket locomotive

1829

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

1829

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Portrait bust of Princess Victoria

1829

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Bench vice belonging to George Stephenson

1829

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Sans Pareil

1829

Clockwork drive, for refracting telescope of 5.9-inch aperture

1829

Refracting telescope of 5.9-inch aperture, mounted on English type equatorial mounting with off-set lead counterweight

1829

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

1705-1737

Oersted Compass Needle, 1828

1828

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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)

Model Boat from Cyclades, 2800 BC

2800 BCE

Pease, Sir Joseph Whitwell (1828-1903) 1st Baronet Businessman and MP

1828 - 1903

The Rastrick Notebook

1829

Silver ear trumpet hearing aid

1829

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

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

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

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

2050-1750 BCE

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Upton and Roberts Safety Lamp, 1827

1827

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

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Diapositives of photographs of sunspots taken by Elizabeth Beckley with the Kew Photoheliograph

1870-09

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Model of a Phoenician bireme ship

1845-1964

Model of an Assyrian kelek or raft of inflated ox-hides, one of three models of Babylonian vessels of skin

700 BCE; 1931

Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

2000-1001 BCE

1827-1912, surgeon; physician; developer of a system of antiseptic surgery, English; British

Lister, Joseph

1827 - 1912

Fowler, William Henry

1807 - 1904

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

1883-01

Lithograph of Goldsworthy Gurney's steam carriage

circa 1829

Lorina, Edith and Alice Liddel

1872-08

Length of red silk ribbon worn as a belt to promote general good health

1880-120

Phrenological head of unidentified male

1827

2 lancets

1827

4 lancets

1827

Silver lancet case, empty

1827

Silver lancet case, empty

1827

Double-ended dental pelican

1851-1800

Snuff box

1828

Brass saccharometer by R.B. Bate

1915-1825