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

circa 1885

Wise's Patent Train Staff

1886

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Model ground signal, North London Railway

1888

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)

Novelty model

1955; 1830

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

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Spagnoletti intermediate signalling instrument

1885

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

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

1705-1737

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1934

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Rectilinear Landscape Lens by J H Dallmeyer

1888

Medal, bronze, commemorating Luigi Galvani

1888

Bronze medal

1887

Bronze medal

1886

Sturgeon mercury break

1886

Rheostat, Kelvin Pattern

1888

Ammeter graduated to 100 amperes

1887

Voltmeter graduated to 100 volts

1887

Muirhead Clark standard cell

1888

Rain gauge

1888

10-Inch JuniorTrig 0902 Aristo slide rule from the 1974 catalogue

1970-1875

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Theury's five-body microscope, 1885

1885

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Lever latch

1887

Chromium steel valve from a steam engine indicator by McInnes-Dobbie Limited

1888 (design date)

Double Glasses (c.1885)

1885

Bertin commutator

1886

Bust on wooden base of Andrew Ross

1859; 1986

Model of crank shaft bearing with two adjusments

1888

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Receipt with letter heading. Arnold & Sons

1887

James N. Routledge

1887

Receipt with letter heading

1885

Carte de Visite photograph. Sir John Lubbock.

1888