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Wise's Patent Train Staff

1886

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Model vertical cylinder fire engine

circa 1885

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

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

circa 1885

Spagnoletti intermediate signalling instrument

1885

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

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

1705-1737

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

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

1934

Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.

2500 BCE

Vertical contact switch, 1886

1886

Lancaster Patent Instantaneous Landscape Lens

circa 1885

Fletcher & Co. gas cooker

circa 1885

Stirn Detective Camera

1886

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Bronze medal to commemorate the 100th birthday of M.E. Cheureul

1886

Bronze medal

1886

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

Plaster replica of IBEX weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931

Ridsdale's revolving chromometer for testing low carbon steel

circa 1886

Revised Classification of Merchandise Traffic and Revised Schedule of Maximum Rates and Charges Applicable thereto, proposed to be charged by the Eastern and Midlands Railway Company

1889-02

Three bulb lamp fitting from Wentworth Castle by Faraday and Son

circa 1886

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

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

Reconstruction of insulated seawater sampling bottle designed by Captain Phipps and Dr Irving

1773 (original); 1980s

Wray Camera Lens

1885

Surveying Spikes

1885

Incandescent electric lamp with carbon filament

1885

One of two Sumerian solid cylindrical weights

circa 2000 BCE

2 circular plaster casts of the 2 halves of a Greek coin

700-100 BCE; 1930-1950

Eclipse camera

1885

Wooden Case containing Photographic Chemicals

1885

Roman stone water main

30

Samuels Camera

1886

model London & North Western Railway express compound locomotive

1885

Samuels Changing Box Plate Camera

1886

Landscape Lens Casket

1885

Whole Plate Camera

1885