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Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Arthington Tunnel memorial plaque, 1849

1849

Engraving: Watt's first experiment of steam. By James Scott after R.W. Buss

1849

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, 1848

1848

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Truncheon, ebony, England, 1849

1849

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Silver kettle presented to Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

1849

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Nimbus, or rain cloud

1849

Cumulostratus forming; fine weather Cirri above

1849

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Britannia statue

1849

Palmer's micrometer (replica)

circa 1848

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

1705-1737

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

1934

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

1870-1877

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

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)

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

2050-1750 BCE

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

1990-95

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

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

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

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Cloud modifications

1849

Views on the London & North Western Railway

1848

Gold amulet in the form of Duamutef, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

2000-100 BCE

Walker's Railway Time Table, and Coach, Omnibus and Carriers' List

1883-01

Wooden backstaff or Davis quadrant made by John Gilbert on Tower Hill

1730; 1967

Lorina, Edith and Alice Liddel

1872-08

Revised Classification of Merchandise Traffic and Revised Schedule of Maximum Rates and Charges Applicable thereto, proposed to be charged by the Eastern and Midlands Railway Company

1889-02

Coloured daguerreotype photograph

circa 1849

Chain stitch fixed needle sewing machine

1849

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Coloured lithograph; Britannia Tubular Bridge over Menai Straits

1849

Jöns Jacob Berzelius

1848

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

2000 BCE

Lithograph "The Conway Tubular Bridge and Castle" by G. Hawkins from a drawing by G. Pickering. Pubd. by T. Catherall

1848

White metal medal

1848

Bronze medal

1849

Circular silver prize medal

1849