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Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

England and her Soldiers

1859

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Dagron microphotographic camera

circa 1860

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

Child's ceramic alphabet bowl, North Staffordshire Railway

1860

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

1705-1737

Letter to The Atlantic Telegraph Company, 1859

1859

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

1934

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

earthenware commemorative plate displaying the company seal of the Hull & Hornsea Railway

1860

Larmuth Loom

circa 1860

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)

Paddlewheel used by James Joule

c1860

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

Zoetrope strip: No 11, Fish and Fowl

1860s

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Brewster Pattern Stereoscope

1860

Zoetrope strip: Badgered Cat

1860s

Dry Collodion Plate Camera

circa 1860

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

1860

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Engraving. Stazione della Ferrovia a Civitavecchia

1859

Cornwall Railway. Saltash Bridge, 1859

1859

Photograph, Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society

1859

A Midnight race on the Mississippi

1860

Engraving. William C. Mylne

1860

Portrait of Robert Stephenson

1860

Tinted lithograph: Railway bridge

1860

Portrait of Robert Stephenson

1859-1860

James Watt

1860

Portrait of Robert Stephenson

1859-1860

Rev. John Theophilus Desaguliers

1860

Copper plate etching, Strada Ferrata Stazione a Porta Portese…

1859

Plaster model of tomb plaque

100 BCE-300 CE; 1890-1920

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3

"Serpentine" (coiled condenser) Royal Berlin Porcelain used by H.E. St. Claire Deville

circa 1860

Small stone scarab pierced longitudinally with flat base engraved with design of standing harpist and seated figure

2000-1000