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Replica of the satellite Telstar 1 from 1962, 1982

(1962); 1982

London & North Eastern Railway steam locomotive 'Mallard'

1938

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

Dissecting microscope used by Sir Ronald Ross

1890-1910

Spring-driven Bracket Clock by Isaac Thuret

1665-1670

Sector by Bion

1700-1720

Stud field regulator, 1900-1950

1900-1950

Demainbray's polemoscope

1701-1752

Brass worksplate, Manning Wardle & Co

1920

Brass worksplate no 517, Manning Wardle & Co

1875

Brass worksplate no 917, Manning Wardle & Co

1884

Battery locomotive, North Staffordshire Railway

1917

Perspective drawing apparatus, incomplete, in integral mahogany case

1760-1770

Train staff and ticket box, Gipsy Lane

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

Straight horn loudspeaker, 1921-1926

1921-1926

Lord Kelvin's 'ironclad' marine galvanometer, 1865-1866

1865-1866

Spirit level, North British Railway, Caledonian Railway, and London & South Western Railway

Carriage Ashtray from Quintinshill Disaster

1915

London & North Western Railway permanent-way whistle

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Wooden and brass angle gauge

Right angle from London Brighton & South Coast Railway

Wolferton station master hand lamp

1870-1880

Long mahogany strip brass pin gauge with five pins

1758-1769

Short mahogany strip brass pin gauge with eight pins

1758-1769

Long mahogany strip brass pin gauge with eight pins

1758-1769

Cybernetic tortoise, developed to help with studies on brain function

1950-1952

Celestial globe by Willem Janszoon Blaeu

1603

Desk telephone transmitter and receiver (sectioned), 1926.

1926

Rotary convertor, 1900-1950

1900-1950

Watt's end measuring machine

1776

Magnetic key, 1850-1870

1850-1870

Morse key with send-receive switch, 1900-1920

1900-1920

A.B.C. telegraph transmitter, 1835-1845

1835-1845

Strowger calling dial, 1906

1906

Replica of Bell's 1876 'iron-box' receiver, 1959

1876

Replica of Bell's liquid transmitter of March 1876, 1880-1958

1880-1958

Table instrument with dial, 1903

1903

Remington 44 Revolver

1863-1865

Barnard Tompion clock

1708

'Pedoscope' shoe-fitting X-ray viewer

1948-1953

Model of Rotative Beam Engine by William Tongue, c. 1804

1797-1804

Model railway turntable

1850

Plaster bust

1790-1819

Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

circa 1897

George III's pendulum

1762

Demonstration radio receiver

1926

Henley needle galvanometer, 1855-1860

1855-1860