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'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

South-East View of Sheffield

1855

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Bright's bell telegraph, 1855

1855

Specimen of telegraph cable laid in Birmingham in 1856

1856

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Telegraph block instrument; South Eastern Railway; Walker's patent No. 245

1855

Locomotive Memoranda, Engines

1856

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1934

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Micrometer type mechanical comparator

1855

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Bullion box containing lead shot

1855

Royal footwarmer, Great Western Railway

1856

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Bronze bust of William Stuart

1855

Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877

1870-1877

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

1705-1737

'Thunder pump' magneto-electric device, 1856

1856

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Mobile cellular telephone (Motorola 'Flip Phone') model no. F09SQD8955AB

1990-95

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Rigged model of Flemish carvel construction Carrack

1910-1921

First Class: The Meeting

1855

Model of a Montgolfier Balloon, 1783

First Public Demonstration of a Montgolfier Balloon, 4th June, 1783.

1783; 1914

Medal, silver, Sardinian issue of Turkish Crimea medal

1855

Silver medal

1856

Bronze medal

1856

Silver medal awarded by King William III of the Netherlands to "Kors Hartog" place or person

1855

Bronze medal

1856

Medal, Grant Medical College

1855

Ten Reales coin of Isabella II (Spain)

1855

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Coloured portrait of Andrew Pritchard

1855

Thunder pump, 1856

1856

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Portrait of Sir Benjamin Brodie

1856