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Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

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

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

1878

Fairlie steam locomotive model

1879

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Wood-working brace drill, with button-operated latch chuck, 1875-1885

circa 1880

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Crossley table telephone, 1879

1879

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Panorama de Paris

1878

Wrap reel/Hank winder

1877

Curved bottom polishing iron, c.1880

1880

'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)

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

1880

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Saw bench

1879

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Lancashire Loom

circa 1880

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1705-1737

Tailboard, North Eastern Railway

1880

Set of wheels from Blenkinsop Railway locomotive

1880

Bezel wind wrist watch, c.1880

circa 1880

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Child's Ordinary bicycle (c. 1880)

circa 1880

Edison telephone peg switchboard and pegs, 1879

1879

Crossley telephone receiver, 1880

1880

Jones 50-line switchboard, 1879.

1879

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

1878

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

Pair of Bell telephones, 1878

1878

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

1934

Magic lantern slide: Lion

1880

Gold watch with tourbillon by Girard Perregaux

1879

Whitworth Lathe No. 626

1880

Railway Director's Official Diary, Great Western Railway, 1880

1880

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

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3

Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.

2500 BCE

Cast-iron rim lock

1878

Small stone scarab pierced longitudinally with flat base engraved with design of standing harpist and seated figure

2000-1000