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Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

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

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

1864

Novelty model

1955; 1830

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Lid for Self Cleansing carbon filter

circa 1861

Dagron microphotographic camera

circa 1860

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Child's ceramic alphabet bowl, North Staffordshire Railway

1860

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

1860

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Map of England and Wales jigsaw puzzle

circa 1860

Larmuth Loom

circa 1860

Distinguished Men of Science

1862

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

1705-1737

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

1870-1877

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, English civil engineer, mid-19th century.

1860

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

1934

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Writing machine for blind people, United Kingdom, 1862

1862

Paddlewheel used by James Joule

c1860

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Sample of Bessemer Steel

1860

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Tables of lifetimes, annuities, and premiums

1864

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

Enfield Carbine Rifle

circa 1860

Petzval Portrait Type Lens

1860

Petzval Portrait Lens

circa 1860

Bronze medal by I.D. Boehm

1863

Bronze medal

1863

Bronze medal

1860

Silk woven picture by S Lotz of a royal coat of arms

1862

Andre-Marie Ampere

1825; 1910

medal, copper, commemorating the inauguration of the medicinal waters of the River Lys

1863

Double tongue commutator used by Wheatstone

1861

Hicks patent mercurial minimum thermometer with brass sliding scale

1861

McCallam's patent distance indicator, 1864

1864

Wheeler and Wilson lock stitch treadle powered button hole sewing machine head

1862

Domestic lock stitch sewing machine made by the Florence Sewing Machine Company

1864