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Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Sectional Model of a Beam Engine, 1866.

1866

Cast iron plaque from Queenstown Road Bridge, Battersea, London, 1865

1865

Novelty model

1955; 1830

London & North Western Railway steam locomotive 'Pet' 0-4-0ST

1865

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

1864

Remington 44 Revolver

1863-1865

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Lord Kelvin's 'ironclad' marine galvanometer, 1865-1866

1865-1866

Sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

1866

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Portrait Bust of Thomas Russell Crampton

1865

Tables of lifetimes, annuities, and premiums

1864

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

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

1870-1877

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

1934

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Telegraph block instrument; Walker's

1865

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Pioneers of Electric Telegraphy at the British Association

1865

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

1705-1737

Sample of transatlantic cable, 1865-66

1865-1866

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Reis telephone, 1863.

1863

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

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

1990-95

The first Wheeler and Wilson sewing machine, 1866.

1866

Replica of Lightning Conductor by Benjamin Franklin, United States, 1730-1760

1730-1760 (original); 1931-1939 (replica)

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Watt's Pumping Engine 'Old Bess', 1777

1777 (original); 1894 (model)

Samples of crystals used in the development of ASDIC transducers, 1917-1918

1917-918

Model of Mud House

6000-5000BCE

Station Master's jacket, North Eastern Railway

circa 1865

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

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Non-Smokers' appeal to the Great Northern Railway Company

1866

The opening ceremony of the Metropolitan & Provincial Working Classes exhibition at the Agricultural Hall, Islington

1866

Samples of Persian Gulf cable plus engraved label, 1863

1863

Cherub and Seraph', 1866

1866