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Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

circa 1897

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Underwood 1 Typewriter, 1897

1897

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Travelling tea case in leather case

1895

Enamel notice, Dinorwic Quarries Railway

1895

London & South Western Railway pathway notice

1896

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Hank Winding Machine

1897

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

model crane - little elephant

1896

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

1896

Coherer with coarse brass turnings, 1894

1894

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Portrait of the Reverand Henry Nelthropp MA, FSA (1820 – 1901)

1896

English lever escapement watch with Karrusel by S Smith and Son

1897

A T & T national telephone directory, October 1896

1896

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Presentation scissors, SS Vienna

1894

Tiled mural, North Staffordshire Railway

1897

Model twin-screw steamship 'Kirkham', Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway

1896

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

model stockton & darlington railway coach "experiment"

1895

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Carding Engine

1896

Glass-stoppered bottle containing uranium

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

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

1934

Portrait bust of Lord Kelvin, 1896

1896

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Stained glass panel from Gorton Works

1897

Stained glass panel from Gorton Works

1897

Block instrument (lock and block)

1897

Brake van, London & South Western Railway

1894

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Brake composite/observation saloon

1897

Great Western Railway locomotive headlamp

1897

Great Western Railway locomotive headlamp

1897

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

1894

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

1705-1737

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Section of cross-Channel telephone cable, 1897

1897

Flat steel-spring (or watch-spring) coherer, 1894

1894

Iron borings coherer (Branly type), 1894

1894

Iron borings coherer (Branly type), 1894

1894

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Bersey Electric Taxi Cab

1897