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Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

The Great Exhibition Polka 1851

1851

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

1851

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

'The British Nave' at the Great Exhibition of 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

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

1934

Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

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

1851

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

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

1705-1737

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

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

1990-95

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

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

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

Watt's Pumping Engine 'Old Bess', 1777

1777 (original); 1894 (model)

Samples of crystals used in the development of ASDIC transducers, 1917-1918

1917-918

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

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Model of Mud House

6000-5000BCE

Fowler, William Henry

1807 - 1904

Mould and moulded rubber plaque

1851

Moon: West of Tycho

1851

Lord of the Isles

1851

Sluice gate from Longdendale reservoirs

circa 1851

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

1883-01

Lorina, Edith and Alice Liddel

1872-08

Reproduction of Joseph Priestley's oxygen apparatus

1774; 1923

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