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Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Set of wheels from Blenkinsop Railway locomotive

1880

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

Portion of one of the iron clamps from the Parthenon at Athens

before 1889

Wise's Patent Train Staff

1886

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

circa 1885

Parsons' steam turbine generator, 1884

1884

Brass worksplate no 917, Manning Wardle & Co

1884

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Copper ore from the Bell Mine

before 1889

Arsenical cobalt or skutterudite, from Skutterude, near Modum, Norway

before 1889

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Enamel watch depicting the Virgin and Child

1880

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Model steam locomotive, North Eastern Railway

1884

Model steam locomotive

1882

Model ground signal, North London Railway

1888

Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

Syntonic Leyden jars, 1880-1889

1880-1889

Tailboard, North Eastern Railway

1880

Child's Ordinary bicycle (c. 1880)

circa 1880

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

1884

Spagnoletti intermediate signalling instrument

1885

Great Western Railway splasher plate

1889

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Tank wagon, North Eastern Railway - Shell-Mex and BP Ltd

1889

Cupriferous sandstone from Schweinkopf

before 1889

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

1705-1737

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

Crossley telephone receiver, 1880

1880

Watch by Sir John Bennett

1884

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Lancashire Loom

circa 1880

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

1934

Spark gap or knob coherer, 1889

1889

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

Photograph of Karl Benz

circa 1885

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862