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Brennan's Gyroscopic Mono-rail Car

1907

Steam locomotive, named Lode Star, Great Western Railway

1907

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Strowger calling dial, 1906

1906

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

North Eastern Railway Dynamometer Car

1906

The Ivel Agricultural Tractor

1902; 1913-1920

Novelty model

1955; 1830

London & North Western Railway 1st class corridor brake no. 5154

1906

Tourbillon watch manufactured by Nicole Nielsen and retailed by S Smith & Son

1907

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

ex Queen Victoria's royal saloon, 1907

1907

Glass-stoppered bottle containing uranium

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

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

1934

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Intermediate Frame

1907

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Oxygen cylinder used by climbers on 1953 Mount Everest expedition

1952-3

Mauveine acetate dye in microcrystalline form in a cork-stoppered glass bottle

1906

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

1705-1737

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Model of Great Central Railway "Atlantic" Express Locomotive

1903 (original); 1982 (model)

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

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

1990-95

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Forth Bridge Railway Co. rivet from Forth Bridge

1888; 1984

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

2050-1750 BCE

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Spengler's Pencil Sharpener, 1907

1907

Reynaud's Praxinoscope Theatre

1879 (1956)

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Model of an Assyrian kelek or raft of inflated ox-hides, one of three models of Babylonian vessels of skin

700 BCE; 1931

Model of Mud House

6000-5000BCE

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

BBC 'Bijou' Crystal Set Receiver Type 6

1923-07

Flymo Super Professional 47 rotary air cushion mower

Flymo Super Professional 47 rotary air cushion mower

1979-80

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Pumping engines

circa 1906

Bust on wooden base of Andrew Ross

1859; 1986

Glass positive:- Spiral Nebula

1907

Gramophone & Typewriter Co. gramophone

1906

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Junior typewriter, c. 1907

1907

One vacuum tube containing mill wheel for showing the mechanical effects of "canal" rays

1907

Bronze handle, highly decorated, Romano-Egyptian

20-400