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Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

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

1705-1737

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Engraving: Watt's first experiment. Marcus Stone ARA pinxt; Herbert Bourne sculpt; published by Appleton & Co

1879

Full size wooden model of Beloe's double rail and chair

1877

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Crossley table telephone, 1879

1879

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

1876

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Gold watch with tourbillon by Girard Perregaux

1879

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

1876

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Fairlie steam locomotive model

1879

Commemorative spade used to turn the first sod of the River Lee Conservancy's new cutting through Horse Shoe Point

1878

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

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

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Panorama de Paris

1878

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Saw bench

1879

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

1876

Wrap reel/Hank winder

1877

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

1878

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

1934

Lawson 'Bicyclette', 1879

1879

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Replica of Edison's First Phonograph, 1877.

1877

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Early telephone by Alexander Graham Bell, 1877.

1877

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

2050-1750 BCE

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)

Rigged model of the "Cutty Sark"

1900-1933 (model); 1869 (original)

Reynaud's Praxinoscope Theatre

1879 (1956)

Electrotype replica of a 16th-century mariner’s astrolabe

1580-1588; 1930

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

2000-1001 BCE