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Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Underwood 1 Typewriter, 1897

1897

Locomotive tender no. 1002, Great Northern Railway

1893

Cape Government locomotive and tender 4-8-0, 1896

1896

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

circa 1897

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

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

1990-95

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Travelling tea case in leather case

1895

Hank Winding Machine

1897

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

1934

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

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

1705-1737

Bersey Electric Taxi Cab

1897

active 1897-1968, laboratory apparatus and instrument maker, London, England

Baird and Tatlock (London) Limited

1897 - 2012

Carding Engine

1896

Iron borings coherer (Branly type), 1894

1894

1895-1980s, manufacturer of medicinal lozenges, England

Iron Jelloids Company Limited

1895

Electrotype replica of a 16th-century mariner’s astrolabe

1580-1588; 1930

Block instrument (lock and block)

1897

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

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

2050-1750 BCE

1896-1947, scientific instrument and radio manufacturer, Cambridge

W G Pye and Company Limited

1896 - 1947

1897-1978, toy maker, Harborne, Birmingham, England

Chad Valley Company Limited

1897 - 1978

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Presentation scissors, SS Vienna

1894

Zither switch with open-wire multiple and two-motion ratchet drive, 1894

1894

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Steam locomotive, number 673

1897

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Wooden casing and capping for electrical cables

1895

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

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

Reynaud's Praxinoscope Theatre

1879 (1956)

1895-c.1950, gas and laboratory equipment manufacturer, Warrington, Cheshire, England

Fletcher Russell and Company Limited

1895

Steam locomotive 'Dean Goods', Great Western Railway

1897

Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

2000-1001 BCE

Going North, King's Cross Station

1893

Radial Flow Parson's Turbine Engines

1894

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Great Western Railway locomotive headlamp

1897

Glass-stoppered bottle containing uranium

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