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Brennan's Gyroscopic Mono-rail Car

1907

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

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

1705-1737

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Model of Great Central Railway "Atlantic" Express Locomotive

1903 (original); 1982 (model)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Novelty model

1955; 1830

North Eastern Railway Dynamometer Car

1906

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

1906

Strowger calling dial, 1906

1906

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

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)

model triple-screw steamship st. denis

1908

Model steam locomotive and model railway carriage

1909

ex Queen Victoria's royal saloon, 1907

1907

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

East Coast Joint Stock passenger brake van

1908

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Glass-stoppered bottle containing uranium

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

Watch and wrist strap

1908

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Steam locomotive, named Lode Star, Great Western Railway

1907

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Sectioned conjectural model of 'Rocket' steam locomotive

1909

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

1906

Intermediate Frame

1907

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

1934

The slums of Govan

1956-09

Oxygen cylinder used by climbers on 1953 Mount Everest expedition

1952-3

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

The slums of Govan

1956-09

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

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

2050-1750 BCE

Heart shaped basket made entirely from cloves

before 1907

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)

The Ivel Agricultural Tractor

1902; 1913-1920

Spengler's Pencil Sharpener, 1907

1907

Reynaud's Praxinoscope Theatre

1879 (1956)

The Slums of Govan

1956-09

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

1580-1588; 1930

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

2000-1001 BCE

Lighthouse optic, from the Eilean Glas lighthouse, Island of Scalpay, Outer Hebrides, Scotland, 1907

Lighthouse optic, from the Eilean Glas lighthouse, 1907

1907

Microbalance used during 1953 Mount everest expedition

1952-3

Simplex typewriter

1907

Whole model of the screw tug 'Victor'

1884-1885; 1919

Mechanical and pneumatic gramophone soundbox, 1908

1908