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Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Sectional Model of a Beam Engine, 1866.

1866

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

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

1865

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Novelty model

1955; 1830

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

1865

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

1865-1866

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

1866

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Portrait Bust of Thomas Russell Crampton

1865

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Telegraph block instrument; Walker's

1865

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

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

1705-1737

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

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

1934

Sample of transatlantic cable, 1865-66

1865-1866

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

1870-1877

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Pioneers of Electric Telegraphy at the British Association

1865

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)

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Model Boat from Cyclades, 2800 BC

2800 BCE

The first Wheeler and Wilson sewing machine, 1866.

1866

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

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

2050-1750 BCE

Model of Henry Cavendish's Torsion Balance Gravitational Apparatus, 1798

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Diapositives of photographs of sunspots taken by Elizabeth Beckley with the Kew Photoheliograph

1870-09

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

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

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

2000-1001 BCE

Model of an Assyrian kelek or raft of inflated ox-hides, one of three models of Babylonian vessels of skin

700 BCE; 1931

Revised Classification of Merchandise Traffic and Revised Schedule of Maximum Rates and Charges Applicable thereto, proposed to be charged by the Eastern and Midlands Railway Company

1889-02

Reproduction of Joseph Priestley's oxygen apparatus

1774; 1923

Pocket surgical instrument set

1866

Walker's Railway Time Table, and Coach, Omnibus and Carriers' List

1883-01

Lorina, Edith and Alice Liddel

1872-08

Cherub and Seraph', 1866

1866