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Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Wax portrait of George Atkins (1766 – 1855) by Richard Cockle Lucas

1852

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway

1853

Novelty model

1955; 1830

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Bridge link

1852

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

1705-1737

'Thunder pump' magneto-electric device, 1856

1856

Bullion box containing lead shot

1855

Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway

1856

Telegraph block instrument; South Eastern Railway; Walker's patent No. 245

1855

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

1934

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

1854

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Locomotive Memoranda, Engines

1856

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

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

1870-1877

Bronze bust of William Stuart

1855

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

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)

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Album of cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns

1853

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Wet Plate Camera, 1855

1855

Brass hand crank model of John Ericsson's three bladed duplex screw propellor

1856

Ice-skate of about 1854-1856

1854-1856

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Portrait, lithograph after Gavarni of P.L.F. Sauvage

1853

Henry Cort

1856

Portrait. R.W. Bunsen. Lithographed by Hoffmann after a photograph by Hanfstungel

1856

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

2000 BCE

Lithograph Portrait of John Dalrymple

1852

Engraving, 1851 Great Exhibition

1852-1853

Silver medal issued by the Ministere de L'Agriculture du Commerce et des Travaux Publics

1854

Engraving: Bust of Queen Victoria

1856

Lithograph, tinted: Crystal Palace Sydenham

1854