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Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

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

1873

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

1876

Steam locomotive, 'Bauxite'

1874

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Saint's sewing machine, 1874.

1874

Brass worksplate no 517, Manning Wardle & Co

1875

model sykes lock and block signalling system

1875

Replica of Bell's 1876 'iron-box' receiver, 1959

1876

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Novelty model

1955; 1830

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

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Catgut suture

1875

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Bronze ticket medal for admission and commemoration of the exposition et congres d' Hygiene et de Sauvetage

1876

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

NER 0-6-0 '1001' class steam locomotive and tender, No 1275, 1874

1874

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

1873

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

Model (scale 1:4) of pair of "Janney" couplings; model (scale 1:8) old pattern couplings

1873

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Lithograph of Daniel Spills Ivorideworks by Daniel Greenaway, 1875

1875

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

1705-1737

Gold lever watch by George Blackie

1873

Magic lantern slide showing scene from 'Alice's Adventures or The Queen of Hearts and the Stolen Tarts'

1876

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1934

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

1990-95

PHOTOCELL, made by Pressler, Leipzig

1876

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

John Derbyshire Vase

1876

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

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

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

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

2050-1750 BCE

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

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

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

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

700 BCE; 1931

Polar planimeter, Amsler's

1876