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Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Rabbit in cabbage musical automaton

1890

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

Model ground signal, North London Railway

1888

Novelty model

1955; 1830

model steam locomotive

1890

Shoehorn made from Rescued Brass from Thirsk Disaster

1892

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Wise's Patent Train Staff

1886

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Sample of Acid Yellow Dye

circa 1890

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

Model steam locomotive

1890

Light-bulb, filament, carbon

About 1890

Coherer with coarse brass turnings, 1894

1894

Spiral spring coherer, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Hertzian receiving resonator, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Ring transformer, 1892

1892

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Marine thermometer by Negretti and Zambra

1890

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Model of Robert Duncan's screw propeller, with stern frame and rudder, as fitted to the Egyptian government yacht 'Sareea

1886-1887

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Copper ore from the Bell Mine

before 1889

Arsenical cobalt or skutterudite, from Skutterude, near Modum, Norway

before 1889

Hertzian oscillator, 1890-1894

1890-1894

Oval badge

1891

Ottawa & Gatineau Valley Railway commemorative salver

1893

Presentation scissors, SS Vienna

1894

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

model ner tennant locomotive

1890

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

Glass-stoppered bottle containing uranium

1801-1892 (prepared); 1946 (element replaced)

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

1934

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Dye Sample

circa 1890

Locomotive tender no. 1002, Great Northern Railway

1893

Brake van, London & South Western Railway

1894