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Cooke and Wheatstone’s double-needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Bench vice belonging to George Stephenson

1829

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

1837

Oersted Compass Needle, 1828

1828

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

1870-1877

Section of first telegraph cable, 1837

1837

Lancets in silver case

1826

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Jug showing the entrance to the Liverpool & Manchester Railway

1830

Engraved lancet case

1826

Silver snuff box, United Kingdom, presented in 1832

1832

Moorish Arch, looking from the Tunnel

1831

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

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

1990-95

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

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

2050-1750 BCE

Railway Commemorative Mug

1830-1836

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Chinese celestial globe, 1830

1830

Machine for reproducing sculpture

1826

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Model of an Assyrian kelek or raft of inflated ox-hides, one of three models of Babylonian vessels of skin

700 BCE; 1931

Model of Mud House

6000-5000BCE

Model of a Phoenician bireme ship

1845-1964

Burial mask of Agamemnon, Greek, c. 1550 BCE

1600-1500 BCE (original); 1900-1914 (copy)

Flymo Super Professional 47 rotary air cushion mower

Flymo Super Professional 47 rotary air cushion mower

1979-80

Thirty Oboli coin of the Ionian Islands

1834

Coin of Charles Felix (King of Sardinia)

1830

Two lira coin of Charles Albert (King of Sardinia)

1833

Half-Franc coin of Louis Philippe (France)

1838

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Five cent coin of the United States of America

1836

Franc coin of Charles X (France)

1826

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Revolving mirror and gear-box drive used by Wheatstone

1834

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Gould microscope by Spear, Dublin, 1830-1840

1833

Skeleton Spy Glass (c.1830)

1830

Dust Spectacles (c.1830)

1830

Theodolite, 1830

1830

James Nasmyth

circa 1830s

Engraving, Dolcoath copper mine Cornwall

1831

Coloured lithograph. Aeriel voyagers

1835

Print, engraving. "Northumbrian" locomotive engine

1830

Print of engraving, captioned The opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. Sept 15, 1830

1830

Steel engraving

1831

Olive Mount

1831