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Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

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

'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

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Wise's Patent Train Staff

1886

Silver medal, commemorates the International Health Exhibition

1884

Model steam locomotive, North Eastern Railway

1884

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Model vertical cylinder fire engine

circa 1885

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

1886-1887

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Plaster model of a human eye, France, 1884

1884

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Spagnoletti intermediate signalling instrument

1885

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

1884

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

1705-1737

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

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

Model Boat from Cyclades, 2800 BC

2800 BCE

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Electric light switch, 1885

1885

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Photograph of Karl Benz

circa 1885

The original Wimshurst electrostatic machine.

1882

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

2050-1750 BCE

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

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936