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Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

"Ingersoll" wrist watch with leather strap

1915

Impulse sender (dial), 1915

1915

'Leiber's Five Letter American Telegraph Code', book issued 1915

1915

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Carriage Ashtray from Quintinshill Disaster

1915

Dye Sample

1916

1914-1915 star medal - G F W Keen

1915

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

London & North Western Railway motor coach

1915

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Caledonian express no 938

1915

Glass-stoppered bottle containing uranium

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

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

1934

Artifcial left arm, United States, 1915

1915

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Model twin-screw steamship 'Engadine', South Eastern & Chatham Railway/Southern Railway

1916

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Oxygen cylinder used by climbers on 1953 Mount Everest expedition

1952-3

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

1705-1737

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Clock Case from Quintinshill Signal Box

1915-1916

Model of Great Central Railway "Atlantic" Express Locomotive

1903 (original); 1982 (model)

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

'Lucky Jim' toy cat mascot

circa 1915

Charlie Chaplin as a young man in Hollywood

circa 1916

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

Artificial left arm, United States, 1915

1915

Hirtz's compass for locating projectiles in the body

1915

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

2050-1750 BCE

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

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

Audio cassette, 'Alf's Teeth' produced for British Rail Red Star parcels services

1985-11

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

Hylo' electric filament lamp with 3-point pull string

circa 1915

'Mazda' drawn wire metallic filament lamp

circa 1915

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Torsion balance for chemists and druggists

1915

Twelve Bocas microphone grids

1916