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Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Rocket locomotive

1829

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

1831

'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

Deck watch by Breguet et Fils

1830

Novelty model

1955; 1830

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

Set of sixty miniature heads used in phrenology

1831

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Jug showing the entrance to the Liverpool & Manchester Railway

1830

Huskisson Memorial

1831

Chinese celestial clockwork globe

1830

Bench vice belonging to George Stephenson

1829

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Ice-skate of about 1830, wood with metal runner

1830

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

Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877

1870-1877

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1990-95

Copy of Thimonnier's chain-stitch sewing machine, 1830

1830

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

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

Phenakistoscope disc with handle

circa 1830s

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

Chinese celestial globe, 1830

1830

Print, Personifications: scenes showing people constructed of artefacts embodying their character

1830

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

2000-1001 BCE

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