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Category
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Place
Material
Date

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

Wise's Patent Train Staff

1886

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Replica of 16th century German 'Hund' wagon, 1986

1986 (replica); 1501-1600 (original)

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

1934

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

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

1705-1737

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

Silver lancet case, empty

1886

Terracotta statue of William Harvey

1886

Crossley Horizontal Single-cylinder Engine

1886

Rigged model of the "Cutty Sark"

1900-1933 (model); 1869 (original)

Three bulb lamp fitting from Wentworth Castle by Faraday and Son

circa 1886

Silver medal commemorating 50th anniversary of Meran health resorts under auspices of Ferdinand and Franz Joseph I

1886

Bronze prize medal awarded by Vienna Academy of Medicine and Surgery

1832-1850

Bronze medal

1886

Bronze medal

1886

Alabaster kohl pot

2000-1350

Ridsdale's revolving chromometer for testing low carbon steel

circa 1886

Whole rigged model of the clipper ship 'Stonehouse'

1866 (original) 1871 (model); 1906 (rigging modified)

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Shell used as Ink and Paint Well, Egypt, 3000 BCE

3000 BCE

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

1990-95

Photograph showing 4 different expressions

circa 1886

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Simple aquatic microscope, with box-foot stand

1795-1805

Bust on wooden base of Andrew Ross

1859; 1986

Coradi planimeter and map, 1886.

1886

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

One of three small printing formes representing various phases of Linotype set matter

1886

Gold amulet in the form of Duamutef, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

2000-100 BCE

Yarn Scale

1886

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

Copy of a cippus showing Horus, Egypt, 1900-1933

1900-1933

Copy of Justus von Liebig's Death Mask, 1873

1873 (original); 1990 (copy)

Amulet showing Anubis

4000-30 BCE

Small black slate palette with short handle and base carved in form of flat fish

3500-1000