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Category
Collection
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'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Rocket locomotive

1829

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

1826

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Portrait bust of Princess Victoria

1829

Shutt End Colliery Railway steam locomotive 'Agenoria'

1829

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

model locomotion no 1

1825

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

model steam locomotive

1826

model Stockton & Darlington Railway coach "Experiment"

1826

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Liverpool & Manchester Railway Co. seal die

1826

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

1829

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

1705-1737

Oersted Compass Needle, 1828

1828

Mail guard watch by George Littlewort

1825

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Bench vice belonging to George Stephenson

1829

Sans Pareil

1829

Clockwork drive, for refracting telescope of 5.9-inch aperture

1829

Engraved lancet case

1826

Lancets in silver case

1826

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)

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

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

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

1837-10

Machine for reproducing sculpture

1826

Bunbury's Whims

1828

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

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

1883-01

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

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

Achromatic Microscope made for J J Lister

1826