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

1705-1737

Cooke and Wheatstone 5-needle telegraph, 1837

1837

Cooke and Wheatstone's A.B.C. telegraph receiver, 1839-1840

1839-1840

Oersted Compass Needle, 1828

1828

Sir W. F. Cooke's original electric alarum, 1835-1840

1835-1840

Cooke and Wheatstone's ABC telegraph transmitter

1840

Section of first telegraph cable, 1837

1837

Engraved lancet case

1826

Lancets in silver case

1826

Silver snuff box, United Kingdom, presented in 1832

1832

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Five-needle train signalling instrument used on the London and Blackwall Railway

1840

Model railway carriage, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1839

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

1870-1877

Cooke and Wheatstone’s double-needle telegraph, 1838

1838

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Bench vice belonging to George Stephenson

1829

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

1830

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Anatomical Drawing of a Human Skeleton

1840

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

1990-95

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)

Replica of William Sturgeon's rotary electromagnetic engine

1832

Phenakistoscope disc with handle

circa 1830s

Difference Engine No. 1

circa 1832

Machine for reproducing sculpture

1826

'Extraordinary effects of Morison Vegetable Pills!', advertisement published London, England, 1834

1834

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Montyon and Franklin Medal, 1833

1833

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

The Talbotype applied to Hieroglyphics, London

1846-08

Print. Chinese nobleman with bamboo ribbed parasol umbrella

circa 1840

Prototype of the Brougham carriage

1838

The Conchologist

circa 1831

Dr. Church's London and Birmingham Steam Coach

1832-1835

'Rocket', 'Novelty' and 'Sans Pareil' at the Rainhill Trials

1829

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Lithograph of Camden Town Fixed Engine Station

1837

Lithograph by Harvey Dutton of H.M.S. "St. George"

1830

Lithograph, coloured: "Please doctor natomy

1830-1839

Engraving, hand coloured. View in the Regent's Park; East Gate

1828

Engraving of Thomas Telford

1831

Engraving of William Symington (1763-1831)

circa 1830

Massey's patent, frictionless ocean depth sounder

1836

Portrait of Thomas Young (engraving)

1830-1839

George Stephenson

1830-1831

Scene Royal Institution

1831-1832

Lithograph. Portrait of P. Barker Webb. By Roger & Cie

1839

Lithograph, "New Edgehill Station"

1836