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Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Brass worksplate no 517, Manning Wardle & Co

1875

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Catgut suture

1875

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

model sykes lock and block signalling system

1875

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

1876

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

1876

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1876

Lithograph of Daniel Spills Ivorideworks by Daniel Greenaway, 1875

1875

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

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

1934

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

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

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

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

1990-95

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

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

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

Watt's Pumping Engine 'Old Bess', 1777

1777 (original); 1894 (model)

Samples of crystals used in the development of ASDIC transducers, 1917-1918

1917-918

Polar planimeter, Amsler's

1876

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

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Model of Mud House

6000-5000BCE

Rulebook for the Thetford & Watton Railway Company

1876

Hofmann's apparatus for decomposing phosphuretted hydrogen

1876

Photograph of William Friese-Greene and family

circa 1875 (original)

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

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

1883-01

Railway model, Locomotion No.1

1875

Piece of metal rescued from the Abbots Ripton accident

1876

Laussedat type camera lucida, with trade cards

1875