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Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

1884

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Brass worksplate no 917, Manning Wardle & Co

1884

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Wise's Patent Train Staff

1886

Model steam locomotive, North Eastern Railway

1884

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

circa 1885

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

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

1705-1737

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

Watch by Sir John Bennett

1884

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Spagnoletti intermediate signalling instrument

1885

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

1934

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

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

1990-95

Parsons' steam turbine generator, 1884

1884

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Crossley Horizontal Single-cylinder Engine

1886

Rigged model of the "Cutty Sark"

1900-1933 (model); 1869 (original)

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Midland Railway composite carriage

1885

Boy's and Rucker's three figure signal cyclometer

1884-1886

Model, rigged, of the sailing ship 'Sudbourn'

1884

Leclanché battery

1887

Etching, hand-coloured. Gurney's New Steam Carriage. Annotated

1885

Fire float, 1884.

1884

Sperm oil hub lamp for bicycles,

1885

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Reversible axe on adze, green stone blade, North Papua (Astrolabe Bay)

2000 BCE

Plaster model of tomb plaque

100 BCE-300 CE; 1890-1920

Ridsdale's revolving chromometer for testing low carbon steel

circa 1886

Specimen of steel produced by the Basic or Thomas-Gilchrist process

1887

Broken fragment of terracotta possibly lamp

30-300

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

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

2050-1750 BCE

Flint knife blade

10,000-2,000 BCE

Amulet showing Anubis

4000-30 BCE

Axe head shaped flint

10000-5000 BCE

Copy of a bloodletting measuring device, England, 1977

1977; 1204-1206

Three flint knives and part of a trepanned skull, 10000-5000 BC.

10000-500 BCE