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Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Model vertical cylinder fire engine

circa 1885

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

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

circa 1885

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

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

Parsons' steam turbine generator, 1884

1884

Silver medal, commemorates the International Health Exhibition

1884

Brass worksplate no 917, Manning Wardle & Co

1884

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

1884

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

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

1934

Spagnoletti intermediate signalling instrument

1885

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

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

1705-1737

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Plaster model of a human eye, France, 1884

1884

Watch by Sir John Bennett

1884

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

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

1990-95

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Photograph of Karl Benz

circa 1885

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

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

2050-1750 BCE

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Rocking microtome, Cambridge, England, 1885

1885

Reynaud's Praxinoscope Theatre

1879 (1956)

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

1883

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Sunset and afterglow, Krakatoa, 9 November 1883.

1883

Model of an Assyrian kelek or raft of inflated ox-hides, one of three models of Babylonian vessels of skin

700 BCE; 1931

Model of Mud House

6000-5000BCE

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Burial mask of Agamemnon, Greek, c. 1550 BCE

1600-1500 BCE (original); 1900-1914 (copy)

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

J R Gaunt and Son Limited

1884 - 1991

Flymo Super Professional 47 rotary air cushion mower

Flymo Super Professional 47 rotary air cushion mower

1979-80

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Theury's five-body microscope, 1885

1885

tongs for demonstrating double refraction using heat

1885

10 glass cubes for demonstrating double refraction

1885