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Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Set of wheels from Blenkinsop Railway locomotive

1880

Gold watch with tourbillon by Girard Perregaux

1879

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Model steam locomotive

1882

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Enamel watch depicting the Virgin and Child

1880

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Crossley table telephone, 1879

1879

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Fairlie steam locomotive model

1879

Tailboard, North Eastern Railway

1880

Child's Ordinary bicycle (c. 1880)

circa 1880

Jones 50-line switchboard, 1879.

1879

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1934

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

Edison telephone peg switchboard and pegs, 1879

1879

Crossley telephone receiver, 1880

1880

Lancashire Loom

circa 1880

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

1880

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

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

1990-95

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

Model of a Montgolfier Balloon, 1783

First Public Demonstration of a Montgolfier Balloon, 4th June, 1783.

1783; 1914

Medal commemorating Luiz de Camoes

1880

Bronze medal presented to the Duke of Galliera for his munificence to the sick

1880

Medal, bronze, commemorates Lieut. General van der Heijden

1881

Bronze medal

1881

Colour lithograph of solar eclipse

1882

Colour lithograph of solar protuberances

1882

Chromolithograph, Vanity Fair Portrait

1882

"the Obelisk"

1880

Four-coil Thomson astatic galvanometer

1880

Chislett's conical electro-magnetic machine, 1873

1880

Astatic mirror galvanometer

1880

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE