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Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

1884-1991, button, badge and medal makers, Birmingham

J R Gaunt and Son Limited

1884 - 1991

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Parsons' steam turbine generator, 1884

1884

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

1884

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Gower-Bell telephone, 1881

1881

Model vertical cylinder fire engine

circa 1885

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

1990-95

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Silver medal, commemorates the International Health Exhibition

1884

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

1934

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

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

1705-1737

Midland Railway composite carriage

1885

1883-c.1944, manufacturer, Middlesbrough

Cargo Fleet Iron Co.

1883 - 1944

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

1580-1588; 1930

Wise's Patent Train Staff

1886

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1883

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915

The original Wimshurst electrostatic machine.

1882

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

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

2050-1750 BCE

1883-1991, telecommunications manufacturer, London

Standard Telephones and Cables PLC

1883 - 1991

Model steam locomotive

1882

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Plaster model of a human eye, France, 1884

1884

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Photograph of the Great Nebula in Orion, 1883

1883

1881-1968, manufacturing engineers, Openshaw, Manchester

Crossley Brothers Limited

1881 - 2009

Photograph of Karl Benz

circa 1885

Marey's Camera for Chronophotography

1882

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Snuffbox in the form of a ram's head, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1881-1882

1881-1882

Model of Henry Cavendish's Torsion Balance Gravitational Apparatus, 1798

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

Reynaud's Praxinoscope Theatre

1879 (1956)

1886-1926, optical instrument and camera manufacturer, Berlin

C P Goerz

1886 - 1926

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

2000-1001 BCE

Model steam locomotive, North Eastern Railway

1884

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4