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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

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1865

Silver model of the Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross Station

1867-1868

Novelty model

1955; 1830

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

1865

One of four original Swan and Raven models

1867

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

1867

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

1867

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

1865-1866

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

1864

London & South Western Railway Shark 2-4-0

circa 1868

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

Sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

1866

newhaven harbour co bridge byelaws notice

1867

Sectional Model of a Beam Engine, 1866.

1866

Portrait Bust of Thomas Russell Crampton

1865

Domestic Sewing Machine for chain stitich

1868

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

Tables of lifetimes, annuities, and premiums

1864

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

Pioneers of Electric Telegraphy at the British Association

1865

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Telegraph block instrument; Walker's

1865

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

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

1934

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

1870-1877

Sample of transatlantic cable, 1865-66

1865-1866

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Zoetrope strip: Butterfly and Poppy

circa 1868

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

2050-1750 BCE

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

1990-95

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

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

Rigged model of the "Cutty Sark"

1900-1933 (model); 1869 (original)

Model of a Jacquard loom, with shuttle and components

1867

Two Kineograph Flicker Books

circa 1868

Electrotype replica of a 16th-century mariner’s astrolabe

1580-1588; 1930

Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

2000-1001 BCE

'Boneshaker' bicycle

1868