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Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Longcase clock, Stephenson & Co's Locomotive Works

1857

Novelty model

1955; 1830

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

1855

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

1934

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

1854

Locomotive Memoranda, Engines

1856

Bullion box containing lead shot

1855

Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway

1856

Islay shipwreck components

1857

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

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

1705-1737

'Thunder pump' magneto-electric device, 1856

1856

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

1856-1857

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Bronze bust of William Stuart

1855

Model of a Power Loom for Plain Weaving

1857

Magneto-electrometer, 1857

1857

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

1870-1877

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

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

1990-95

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Wet Plate Camera, 1855

1855

Ice-skate of about 1854-1856

1854-1856

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Henry Cort

1856

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

1856

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

1854

Engraving: Bust of Queen Victoria

1856

Mezzotint. Portrait of Sir Francis Beaufort FRS 1774-1857. By S. Pearce

1857

Watercolour showing exterior of Scutari Hospital, c.1857

1857

Lithograph, tinted: Crystal Palace Sydenham

1854

Tinted lithograph - The Crystal Palace Sydenham

1854

Tinted lithograph -The Crystal Palace at Sydenham

1854

Lithograph, tinted: Crystal Palace Sydenham

1854

Plaster model of tomb plaque

100 BCE-300 CE; 1890-1920