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Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Wise's Patent Train Staff

1886

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

Model vertical cylinder fire engine

circa 1885

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

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

1705-1737

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

1934

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

Spagnoletti intermediate signalling instrument

1885

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Automatic switch

1885

Vertical contact switch, 1886

1886

Crompton solenoid operated lightning arrestor

1885

Turnswitch with fuse (wire), c.1886 [lacks cover]

1886

Axe head shaped flint

10000-5000 BCE

Kew standard mercury in glass thermometer

1885

Iron Weight

1910-130

Bertin commutator

1886

Sturgeon mercury break

1886

Gold leaf electrometer with sliding condenser

1886

Voltmeter

1885

Andean Railway medal: Mendoza Exhibition

1885

'Isthmus' specimen bar, used with the Hopkinson yoke

1885

Circular tin plated medal (?), to commemorate 25 y

1886

Verge repeating watch

1713-1750

Lever watch in case

1800-1830

Plate of mild steel bent three times on itself

1885

Lever watch in pair case with crank roller

1800-1830

Kreusler's fat extraction apparatus and stand

1886

Cylinder watch in case with thin horizontal movement

1801-1850

Cylinder watch in case

1801-1825

Cylinder watch in pair case

1692-1730

Theury's five-body microscope, 1885

1885

Print, etching of Night scene in European city

1940-1050

Prize certificate awarded by the Department of Science and Art to Mr William H. Iles

1885

Wigglesworth Observatory, Scarborough

1885

Address to William Smith on his retirement

1894-05

Flint hand tool

8500-2000 BCE

Spindle with Whorl, Stone Age

5000-500 BCE