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Replica of Roman equal-arm balance, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914

Experimental daguerreotype

1842

Alexander Nasmyth

1844

Poncelet's Water Wheel, 1824

1824 (original); 1891 (model)

Model of an Egyptian boat in XII Dynasty Tomb

1991-1783 BCE

Spindle with Whorl, Stone Age

5000-500 BCE

Address to William Smith on his retirement

1894-05

Voigtlander daguerreotype camera

1841

'Your Carry', 1867

1867-04

W Holman Hunt in his Eastern dress

1864-05

Daisy

1864-04

Anthony Trolloppe (sic)

1864-10

May - Study No 167

1870-10

Sir John Herschel

1867-04

Abraham & Dancer travelling Microscope

circa 1843

The Dirty Monk', Alfred Lord Tennyson, May 1865

1865-05

Diorama of Grimes Graves Flint Mine, 2000 BC

2000 BCE

Stone slab with seven holes for cosmetic ointments, Egypt, 1991-1786 BCE

1991-1786 BCE

Folkestone to Boulogne steam ship service timetable

1843

Lithograph 'Britannia Tubular Bridge over the Menai Straits showing the Floating of the Second Tube, 1849'

1850-07

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

London and Dover Railway, Open throughout

1844

table of rates and charges

1857/07

Portrait of Constance Garstin in Darjeeling, India

1861-08

Drawing of Singhi Dalan in Rajmahal, Jharkhand, India

1856-11

Circular aluminium(?) medal commemorates Vice Admi

1841

White metal medal to commemorate the defeat of the Chinese

1842

Medal, bronze, prize or presentation

1841

Bronze prize medal by N. Gerbara

1842

The Gwaliar Campaign Star

1843

Plaster medal encased in glass

1843-1844

Copy of forceps made from an Egyptian sculpture, Kom-Ombos, Egypt, 1901-1936

1901-1936; 180 BCE

Casts of Chinese zodiac figures (Tang dynasty)

1871-1900 (copy); 618-907 CE (original)

Casts of Chinese zodiac figures (Tang dynasty)

1871-1900 (copy); 618-907 CE (original)

Casts of Chinese zodiac figures (Tang dynasty)

1871-1900 (copy); 618-907 CE (original)

Wood tobacco pipe

1860-1820

Wheatstone's original bridge

1843

Draper's daguerreotype of Solar Spectrum

1842

Queen Adelaide's Saloon, No. 2

1842

Model of a Viking Ship of about A.D.900, excavated from Gokstad

1913; circa 900 CE

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

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

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

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

Ronalds' rain and vapour gauge (evaporimeter) by Adie & Son

1843

Reconstruction of insulated seawater sampling bottle designed by Captain Phipps and Dr Irving

1773 (original); 1980s

Electrical recording mercury-in-glass weather balloon thermometer, 1843

1843

The London and North Western Railway Four-Cylinder Compound Express Locomotive No 1909, Jubilee

1899/05

London and North Western Railway Four-Cylinder Compound Express Locomotive No 1901, Jubilee

1899/05

Midland Railway Single Express Locomotive No 116.

1898-01

Great Central Railway Express Locomotive No 258

1899/11