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Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Bo-Third Rail No D75S

1898

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Kadoorie, Lawrence (CBE)

1899 - 1993

Model steam

1899

Platt Brothers Notice

1899

Platt Brothers Notice

1898

East Coast Joint Stock, 3rd Class railway carriage, 1898

1898

Receiving ‘jigger’ used by the Marconi Company, 1899

1899

Experimental transmitting ‘jigger’ used by the Marconi Company, 1899

1899

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Vertical Compound Steam Engine with Hackworth's Valve Gear, 1898

1898

National Telephone Company directory, 1898-1899

1898-1899

Filings coherer, glass tube formed into T-shape at one end and bent round into U-shape at other end with bulb, 1899

1899

Filings coherer, small glass tube with bulb at one end and cap of red sealing wax at other end, 1898

1898

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Glass-stoppered bottle containing uranium

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

Receiving ‘jigger’ used by the Marconi Company, 1898

1898

Portrait bust of Sir John Hawkshaw

1899

Platt Brothers Notice

1899

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1705-1737

Filings coherer, glass tube formed into bulbs at each end at right angles, 1899

1899

Filings coherer, glass tube, 1898

1898

Filings coherer, glass tube bent at 45-degree angle at one end to form side-pocket, 1898

1898

Watch with complications and minute repeating by Samuel Smith & Son

1899

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1934

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

1990-95

Replica of Lightning Conductor by Benjamin Franklin, United States, 1730-1760

1730-1760 (original); 1931-1939 (replica)

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Model Boat from Cyclades, 2800 BC

2800 BCE

Electrolytic supply meter No. 629729 made by the Reason Manufacturing Company

1898

Woman with a spinning wheel

1899

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

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

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

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

2050-1750 BCE

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Portrait of Samuel Holliday

1898

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

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979