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Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

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

Novelty model

1955; 1830

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

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

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

South-East View of Sheffield

1855

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

Portrait bust of Henry Maudslay

before 1857

Islay shipwreck components

1857

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

circa 1854

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

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

'Thunder pump' magneto-electric device, 1856

1856

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

1854

Magneto-electrometer, 1857

1857

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

1934

Chart of the Atlantic showing proposed course of the Atlantic Cable, 1856-1857

1856-1857

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

1870-1877

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Bullion box containing lead shot

1855

Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway

1856

Locomotive Memoranda, Engines

1856

Bronze bust of William Stuart

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)

Model of a Power Loom for Plain Weaving

1857

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

1855

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

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

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Portrait of Edward Somerset Marquis of Worcester, 1856

1856

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)

Thomas Clark

1856

Justus von Liebig

1856

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

2000-100 BCE

L & C Railway Locomotive Engine Memoranda from Nov. 22nd 1856

1856

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

1883-01