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Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Lancashire Loom

circa 1880

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

Child's Ordinary bicycle (c. 1880)

circa 1880

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Parsons' steam turbine generator, 1884

1884

Model steam locomotive

1882

Brass worksplate no 917, Manning Wardle & Co

1884

Mantel clock, presented to T.W. Worsdell - Great Eastern Railway

circa 1885

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

circa 1880

Wise's Patent Train Staff

1886

Model steam locomotive, North Eastern Railway

1884

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Enamel watch depicting the Virgin and Child

1880

Model of Robert Duncan's screw propeller, with stern frame and rudder, as fitted to the Egyptian government yacht 'Sareea

1886-1887

Silver medal, commemorates the International Health Exhibition

1884

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Model vertical cylinder fire engine

circa 1885

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

1880

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

1884

Spagnoletti intermediate signalling instrument

1885

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

Tailboard, North Eastern Railway

1880

Set of wheels from Blenkinsop Railway locomotive

1880

Bezel wind wrist watch, c.1880

circa 1880

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Plaster model of a human eye, France, 1884

1884

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

1705-1737

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Crossley telephone receiver, 1880

1880

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

1934

Watch by Sir John Bennett

1884

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

1990-95

Midland Railway composite carriage

1885

Sixteen lens cine camera by Louis Le Prince

1886-1887

Rocking microtome, Cambridge, England, 1885

1885

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

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

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Foucault Pendulum for demonstrating the Earth's rotation, with stand, divided arc, lapse clock, storage box

1883