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Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Schwann's microscope (no case)

1835

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Slotting machine

1835

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 3rd Class open railway carriage, 1834

1834

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Silver lancet case, empty

1833

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway, composite 1st & 2nd class railway carriage

1834

Bodmin & Wadebridge Railway 2nd Class railway carriage, 1834

1834

Winding Engine, Stanhope & Tyne Railway

1833

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1705-1737

Insulators used for Morse's telegraph, 1835

1835

Type used for original Morse telegraph, 1835

1835

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

1870-1877

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

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

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

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 Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

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

Fantascope disc

1833

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

Jonathan Hull's 'A Description and Draught of a Newly-Invented Machine'

1850-1899

Design for a mail post carriage

1835

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

1833

Aquatints of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway

1834

Reproduction of Joseph Priestley's oxygen apparatus

1774; 1923

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

2000-100 BCE

'A list of two thousand microscopic objects' book by Andrew Pritchard, England, 1835

1835

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

1883-01

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Ibbetson's Geometric Chuck, 1835

1835

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

Model of Ggantija megalithic temple on the Maltese island of Gozo, 3000-2500 BC.

3000-2500 BCE

Coloured engraving of Hancock's steam carriage

1833-1835