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'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Chinese celestial clockwork globe

1830

Rocket locomotive

1829

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

1829

Entrance into Manchester across Water Street

1831

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Deck watch by Breguet et Fils

1830

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

Jug showing the entrance to the Liverpool & Manchester Railway

1830

Huskisson Memorial

1831

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

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

Bench vice belonging to George Stephenson

1829

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Moorish Arch, looking from the Tunnel

1831

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

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

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

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

700 BCE; 1931

Model of Mud House

6000-5000BCE

Chinese celestial globe, 1830

1830

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Model of a Phoenician bireme ship

1845-1964

Burial mask of Agamemnon, Greek, c. 1550 BCE

1600-1500 BCE (original); 1900-1914 (copy)

Flymo Super Professional 47 rotary air cushion mower

Flymo Super Professional 47 rotary air cushion mower

1979-80

Letter from Robert Stephenson to Henry Kingsford of Canterbury & Whitstable Railway dated 12 June 1830

1830-06-12

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

Bury Ackermann "long prints" 4 trains on 2 sheets

1831

Refracting telescope with 5.9-inch aperture lens, brass tube and English type equatorial mounting and clockwork drive

1829

Jonathan Hull's 'A Description and Draught of a Newly-Invented Machine'

1850-1899

Views on the Liverpool & Manchester Railway

1831

Reproduction of Joseph Priestley's oxygen apparatus

1774; 1923

Medal commemorating the 'Bridge at Newton'

1830

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

2000-100 BCE

The Rastrick Notebook

1829

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

1883-01

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936