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Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Cooke and Wheatstone double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Thames Tunnel opening commemorative medal, 1843

1843

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway

1845

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Single-needle block instrument

1845

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

1845

Seal die, The Southampton & Dorchester Railway Company

1845

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

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

Two lancets in a patterned silver case

1844

Plaster model of the lunar surface

1844

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Flint hand tool, core-type, Stone Age.

8500-2000 BCE

Reginald Southey with Skeletons

1857-06

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

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

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Elderly Woman

circa 1845

Manuscript diary of Alfred Kitching

1843-1844

Chess players

circa 1844

Benjamin Hick

1843

HM Paddle Frigate 'Terrible'

1845

The Flying Steam Company, to China in twenty-four hours certain

circa 1843

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Past and Present

1845

The Shakespere Cliffe, and Tunnel

1844

Coloured lithograph. "East View of Ely from the Railway"

1845

Reversible axe on adze, green stone blade, North Papua (Astrolabe Bay)

2000 BCE

The man wot knows how to get up the steam

1845

James Watt

1845

Bronze medal commemorating the Austrian physician Rettenbach

1843

Circular bronze medal

1844

Abingdon Road Station, Oxfordshire

1844

Medal, bronze, commemorating the reunion of Italian scientists under auspices of Ferdinando I

1844

Medal, bronze, to commemorate 50th year of doctorate of Dr. C.H. Pfaff

1843

Circular bronze medal commemorates the 21st Convention of German Naturalists and Physicians in Graz

1843

Circular bronze medal

1843

Copper prize medal

1844