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

1705-1737

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Rocket locomotive

1829

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

1829

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Portrait bust of Princess Victoria

1829

model locomotion no 1

1825

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

model steam locomotive

1826

Diploma awarding honorary membership of the London Vaccine Institution, London, England, 1826

1826

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

model Stockton & Darlington Railway coach "Experiment"

1826

Liverpool & Manchester Railway Co. seal die

1826

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Handbill, Theatre Royal, Covent Garden

1824

Sans Pareil

1829

Clockwork drive, for refracting telescope of 5.9-inch aperture

1829

Refracting telescope of 5.9-inch aperture, mounted on English type equatorial mounting with off-set lead counterweight

1829

Oersted Compass Needle, 1828

1828

Mail guard watch by George Littlewort

1825

Engraved lancet case

1826

Lancets in silver case

1826

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Bench vice belonging to George Stephenson

1829

Phrenological head of unidentified individual

1824

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Achromatic Microscope made for J J Lister

1826

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

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

Replica of Lightning Conductor by Benjamin Franklin, United States, 1730-1760

1730-1760 (original); 1931-1939 (replica)

Electrotype replica of a 16th-century mariner’s astrolabe

1580-1588; 1930

Hand loom for silk weaving with Jacquard machine

c.1825

Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

2000-1001 BCE

Wooden model of a mercury compensated pendulum

1829

Wooden model of a screw

1828

Parts of apparatus for demonstrating thermoelectricity

1828

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

1900-1933

Model of submersible 'Turtle'

1976; 1776

Votive plaque with right ear in relief

400 BCE-100 CE; 1900-1936

Inscribed votive plaque with pair of arms in relief

100 BCE-100 CE; 1900-1936

Earthenware jug

2000-1350

Inscribed votive plaque with breast in relief

100 BCE-100 CE; 1900-1936

Replica of Roman steelyard, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Earthenware dish

2000-1350