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Category
Collection
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Place
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Sans Pareil

1829

Clockwork drive, for refracting telescope of 5.9-inch aperture

1829

Pair of turn pin spectacles

1823-1825

Engraved lancet case

1826

Lancets in silver case

1826

Silver snuff box, United Kingdom, presented in 1832

1832

Near Wellington, Shropshire

1821

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Copy of Thimonnier's chain-stitch sewing machine, 1830

1830

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

View of the Canterbury and Whitstable Railway... May 3rd, 1830

1830

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

2050-1750 BCE

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

1990-95

Silver ear trumpet hearing aid

1829

Model of Henry Cavendish's Torsion Balance Gravitational Apparatus, 1798

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Hand loom for silk weaving with Jacquard machine

c.1825

Model of a Phoenician bireme ship

1845-1964

Tourniquet, Petit's type

1823-1829

Lithograph 'Blasting Rocks, Linslade, Bucks, October 1837', by J C Bourne, 1837

1837-10

The Pleasures of the Railroad

1831

Machine for reproducing sculpture

1826

Bunbury's Whims

1828

Views on the Liverpool & Manchester Railway

1831

Two Coloured Prints "Travelling on the Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1833" published by R Ackermann

1833

Aquatints of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway

1834

Surgical instrument set

1823-1830

A peepshow, entitled, 'Optique No.6: Pont Sous La Tamise'

1825-1830

Replica of apparatus used by Ohm to prove Ohm's Law

1826

Commemorative trowel used to lay the first stone of the Thames Tunnel

1825

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

2000-100 BCE

The Rastrick Notebook

1829

A lesson on perspective in the academy of drawing and painting

1832

Walker's Railway Time Table, and Coach, Omnibus and Carriers' List

1883-01

Seal and stamp - New Romney Gas Light and Coke Company Ltd

1832

Slide rule for calculation of treadwheel labour

1823

Lithograph of Goldsworthy Gurney's steam carriage

circa 1829

Wooden backstaff or Davis quadrant made by John Gilbert on Tower Hill

1730; 1967

Photograph of Fern Leaf

1836-02

Lorina, Edith and Alice Liddel

1872-08

Observations on a General Iron Rail-way or Land Steam-Conveyance

1825

Description of a Railway on a New Principle

1823

Revised Classification of Merchandise Traffic and Revised Schedule of Maximum Rates and Charges Applicable thereto, proposed to be charged by the Eastern and Midlands Railway Company

1889-02

Bury Ackermann "long prints" 4 trains on 2 sheets

1831

Achromatic Microscope made for J J Lister

1826

London Vaccine Institution certificate, 1826.

1826

Samuel Clegg Steam Engine Model

1825