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Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Catgut suture

1875

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

1870

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Early telephone by Alexander Graham Bell, 1877.

1877

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

1879-current (2020), manufacturer of surgical instruments, London, England

Downs Surgical Limited

1879

Replica of Edison's First Phonograph, 1877.

1877

English-Built 'Boneshaker' Bicycle

1865-1870

Dagron microphotographic camera

circa 1860

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Reis telephone, 1863.

1863

Bullion box containing lead shot

1855

Singer 'New Family' sewing machine, 1865-1883.

1865-1883

Geometrical Groin Vault, string surface model

1872

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Saint's sewing machine, 1874.

1874

Model of a Jacquard loom, with shuttle and components

1867

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

Compound monocular microscope

1870-1880

Holmes' arc lamp from South Foreland Lighthouse, about 1860-80.

1860-1880

Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson

circa 1850s

Writing machine for blind people, United Kingdom, 1862

1862

Bird cage from Sussex Lunatic Asylum

1872

Gower-Bell telephone, 1881

1881

Sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858

Model vertical cylinder fire engine

circa 1885

Morse key, 1850-1870.

1850-1870

Distinguished Men of Science

1862

Sectional Model of a Beam Engine, 1866.

1866

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

1990-95

Decimal watch by Richard Dover Statter and Thomas Statter

1862

Items used by Louis Pasteur, 19th Century.

1861-1870

Letter from Queen Victoria mentioning chloroform use in childbirth

1859

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

1862

Hansen's Writing Ball, also known as Malling-Hansen Writing Ball

1875-1880

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

Operative Society of Bricklayers

1866-1870

Remington 44 Revolver

1863-1865

Album of cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns

1853

Admiral FitzRoy type Barometer, 1876-1884

1876-1884

Silk skirt and blouse dyed with Perkin's mauve aniline dye

1862-1863

John Ellis

1858

Model railway turntable

1850

Queen Victoria's Saloon

1869

Stock Exchange automatic telegraph, 1872-1880

1872-1880

Engraving of Theory of pulleys (Theorie elementaire des Poulies)

1850-1860

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

Caricature showing 'The State Doctor' during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854

circa 1854