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Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway

1853

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

South-East View of Sheffield

1855

Caricature of an undertaker hoping for cholera, Europe, c. 1854

circa 1854

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

circa 1854

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Bullion box containing lead shot

1855

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

1855

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

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)

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

1705-1737

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

1854

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Bronze bust of William Stuart

1855

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Spectacles, gold rims

1853

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

1855

Caricature showing a publican's dilemma during a cholera epidemic, Europe, c. 1854

circa 1854

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

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

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

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Mosquee du Sultan Mahmoud a Tophanna

circa 1855

Daguerreotype of John Avery Stranded In Rapids Above Niagara

1853

Great Western Railway "Cornishman" Express Train, hauled by 4-4-2 No. 3046 "Lord of the Isles"

1899/12

Great Western Railway "Cornishman" Express Train, hauled by 4-4-2 No. 3046 "Lord of the Isles".

1899/12

Drawing of Singhi Dalan in Rajmahal, Jharkhand, India

1856-11

Salt print of a Cuneiform clay tablet

1854

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

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

Everest theodolite

circa 1855

Two inertia rings, circa 1853

1853

verification hole punch

1855

Model of a London omnibus

1855

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

1853

Lithograph, tinted: Crystal Palace Sydenham

1854

Portrait. Peter Barlow. Mezzotint

1853

Tinted lithograph - The Crystal Palace Sydenham

1854

Tinted lithograph -The Crystal Palace at Sydenham

1854