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Furness Railway steam locomotive 'Coppernob' 0-4-0, No 3, 1846

1846

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

Single needle telegraph, 1846

1846

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine

1846

Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway

1845

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Single-needle block instrument

1845

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

1845

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

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

1705-1737

model steam, crewe type locomotive

1846

Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934

1934

seal die - Colchester, Stour valley, Sudbury and Halstead Railway

1846

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Two lancets in a patterned silver case

1844

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

1870-1877

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Seal die, The Southampton & Dorchester Railway Company

1845

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

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

1990-95

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

The Talbotype applied to Hieroglyphics, London

1846-08

Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

Chess players

circa 1844

Benjamin Hick

1843

HM Paddle Frigate 'Terrible'

1845

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Past and Present

1845

Coloured lithograph showing Engine House at Swindon

1846

Coloured lithograph showing Bath Station

1846

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

1845

The man wot knows how to get up the steam

1845

James Watt

1845

Abingdon Road Station, Oxfordshire

1844

Bronze medal commemorating publication of "Le Fruit Errant" by Eugene Sue

1845

Plaster model of tomb plaque

100 BCE-300 CE; 1890-1920

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3

Small stone scarab pierced longitudinally with flat base engraved with design of standing harpist and seated figure

2000-1000

Oesophageal forceps Durham's

1871-1830

Double-ended dental pelican

1851-1800