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Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Telephone crossbar switch, Swedish Ericsson, 1921

1921

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Working Model locomotive

1922

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Model of a pendulum clock based on Galileo's design

1921

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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)

Ora wireless receiving triode, 1921

1921

Oxygen cylinder used by climbers on 1953 Mount Everest expedition

1952-3

Card of Authority to use portable receiver, 1922

1922

Popular Wireless no. 1 vol. 1, 1922

1922

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)

Rorschach Inkblot Test, Bern Switzerland, 1942

1921

Whitaker Tunnelling Machine

1921

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

Medal for Henry le Chatelier

1921

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

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Roller bearing type N.L. 30; 1921 branded Norma

1921

Self-aligning double row ball bearing

1921

Dummy 66-volt dry battery

1922

Bust on wooden base of Andrew Ross

1859; 1986

'World' constant-linear-speed record

1922

Radior gramophone with diamond hill-and-dale reproducer

1922

Pathe "Difsor" gramophone, 1922.

1922

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Bronze handle, highly decorated, Romano-Egyptian

20-400

Corona folding portable typewriter, c. 1922

1922

Earthenware jug

2000-1350

Silvertown patent portable testing set

1922