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Demainbray's model scorpion catapult

1745-1755

Demainbray's rat's tail crane model

1735-1753

Demainbray's wharf jib crane model

1729-1753

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Loaded submarine telegraph cable, 1926

1926

Sample of the 1865/66 Transatlantic Telegraph Cable

1865

Groma, roughly made

200-1 BCE

Orrery planetary model

1851-1880

Orrery planetary model by James Ferguson, 1755-1756

1755-1756
Coptic panel of linen and cotton with appliqued design (sphinx and pyramids) in poor condition

Coptic panel of linen and cotton with appliqued design

1920-1939
Coptic cotton panel of appliqued figures with green/brown border

Coptic cotton panel of appliqued figures

1920-1939
Model (scale 1:12) of rope driving arrangement for paper making machine; made of brass

Model of rope driving arrangement

1896
Brass tube, containing a glass tube, which has a brass cap at one end and open at the other end, containing traces of silver chromate and / or silver chloride, lashed to a hemp rope - which is tied to a galvanised cast iron sinker weight hollowed at base, for Ocean depth sounding machine, used for marine vessel navigation, patented by Sir William Baron Kelvin Thomson, British, 1876 and made by James White, Glasgow, Scotland, 1876

Brass tube, lashed to a hemp rope, which is tied to a galvanised cast iron sinker weight, for Ocean depth sounding machine, used for marine vessel navigation

1876