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Sewing machine by Elias Howe

circa 1846

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

1846

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Plaster model of the lunar surface

1844

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

1845

Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway

1845

Single-needle block instrument

1845

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Peel, Williams & Peel steam engine

1846

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Single needle telegraph, 1846

1846

Cooke and Wheatstone double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Seal die, The Southampton & Dorchester Railway Company

1845

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

1846

model steam, crewe type locomotive

1846

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1934

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

1990-95

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

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

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Model Boat from Cyclades, 2800 BC

2800 BCE

Grand Junction Railway locomotive 'Columbine'

1845

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

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

Julia Margaret Cameron and her daughter

1845-02-10

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

2000-1001 BCE

Fowler, William Henry

1807 - 1904