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Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

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

1876

Brass worksplate no 517, Manning Wardle & Co

1875

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Catgut suture

1875

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

1876

model sykes lock and block signalling system

1875

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

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

1705-1737

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

1934

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (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)

Steam locomotive, 'Bauxite'

1874

Lithograph of Daniel Spills Ivorideworks by Daniel Greenaway, 1875

1875

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

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

1876

Rulebook for the Thetford & Watton Railway Company

1876

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

Hofmann's apparatus for decomposing phosphuretted hydrogen

1876

Bust of Sir William Fairbairn

1875

Laussedat type camera lucida, with trade cards

1875

Lathe bed and harmonic turnings

circa 1875

Set of 8 glass avoirdupois weights from 7lbs to 1oz, the larger adjusted with lead shot, in case

circa 1876

Haemacytometer, Paris, France, 1874

1874

Photograph of William Friese-Greene and family

circa 1875 (original)

Model of Ggantija megalithic temple on the Maltese island of Gozo, 3000-2500 BC.

3000-2500 BCE

Captain Richard Francis Burton

1876

Dr W H Russell

1876

The Earl of Shaftesbury

1876

John Everett Millais

1876

The Right Hon Cowper-Temple

1876

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Photograph of a Fresnel lens used by Melloni and a bust of Melloni

1876

Portrait of Joseph Priestley

1874

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Sir John Herschel

1875

Sir Wm. Herschel, Bt.

1876

Photograph of an air pump with a double barrel preserved by the Royal Society

1876

Photograph of Guericke's air pump and Magdeburg Hemispheres

1876

Reversible axe on adze, green stone blade, North Papua (Astrolabe Bay)

2000 BCE