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

1705-1737

Jones 50-line switchboard, 1879.

1879

Edison telephone peg switchboard and pegs, 1879

1879

Pair of Bell telephones, 1878

1878

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

Crossley telephone receiver, 1880

1880

Gold lever watch by George Blackie

1873

Set of six test tubes with stand, used by Joseph Lister

1875-1878

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

1866-1870

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Panorama de Paris

1878

Croll Testimonial silver gilt fountain, Parcel-gilt Victorian silver rosewater fountain designed as a table centrepiece

1870

Lancashire Loom

circa 1880

York apprentices model train - North Eastern Railway

1870

Wrap reel/Hank winder

1877

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

1878

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

1934

Bell Transmitter with Membrane Diaphragm, 1875-1877

1875-1877

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

1870-1877

Clockwork interruptor, once owned by David Hughes, 1875-1880

1875-1880

Bird cage from Sussex Lunatic Asylum

1872

Steam locomotive, 'Bauxite'

1874

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

1880

Captain Roux's 'Paracyclone'

1875

Section of the tree under which Livingstone's viscera were buried, Africa, 1873

1873

Early telephone by Alexander Graham Bell, 1877.

1877

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

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

1990-95

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Edison's Original Micro-Tasimeter, 1878

1878

Hindu astrolabe

1870

Michaux-Perreaux steam motor cycle scale model

1868

Treadle-operated 'Minerva' platen printing press made by H. S. Cropper and Co.

circa 1870

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Queen Victoria's Saloon

1869

Le Praxinoscope

1877

Original Abbe apertometer, "made 1871"

1871

Original model of Edison's patent electric pen, 1875-1876

1875-1876

Shergold Safety Bicycle by Thomas Shergold

1878

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Isle of Man Railway "Pender" Locomotive

1873

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

'Boneshaker' bicycle

1868

Model of a Montgolfier Balloon, 1783

First Public Demonstration of a Montgolfier Balloon, 4th June, 1783.

1783; 1914

Silver medal by I. Bianchi commemorating funding of hospital for mentally ill

1867