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Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

1851

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 1851

1851

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Poster advertising lectures on phrenology, Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England, 1851

1851

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

Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

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

1870-1877

Watch made for the 1851 Great Exhibition by Alexander Watkins

1851

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

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

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Reproduction of Joseph Priestley's oxygen apparatus

1774; 1923

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

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

2000-100 BCE

Antifriction Press, D. Dick

1851

Steam Engine, Hick and Son

1851

Psyche and Cupid, Fraikin

1851

View of Transept, Looking South

1851

Furs, Nicholay

1851

Vacuum Apparatus, Pontifex and Wood

1851

Design for Fountain, Andre

1851

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

Refracting Telescope of Aperture 6.5 in ( 165mm)

1851

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

'The Thames Tunnel' peepshow, with original box

1851

Moon: West of Tycho

1851

Model of Ggantija megalithic temple on the Maltese island of Gozo, 3000-2500 BC.

3000-2500 BCE

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Richmond Railway Bridge, Surrey

1851

Railway Swing-bridge, Folkestone Harbour

1851

Rye Swing Bridge, South Eastern Railway

1851

Perspective view of the Great Central Railway Station, Derby

1851

The Reading Stations

1851