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'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Anatomical Drawing of a Human Skeleton

1840

Shoulder papier-mache doll accompanying English wooden doll.Circa 1840

circa 1840

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Marine chronometer by E. Barthet, found on an abandoned ship

1840

Slamannan Railway commemorative plaque

1840

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Wheatstone printing telegraph, 1841

1841

Model of Grand Junction Railway locomotive "Wildfire", 1839

1839

Eclipse

1841

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Lithograph: 'Tring Cutting. June 17th 1837'

1839

Model Manchester & Leeds Railway carriage

1839

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Brass station bell, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1839

Gold watch made for Queen Amelie of France by Henri Motel

circa 1840

Signal Lamp, Stockton & Darlington Railway

1840

Section of laminated timber bridge from Newcastle & North shields Railway, 1839

1839

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Model railway carriage, Manchester & Leeds Railway

1839

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

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

1705-1737

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

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

1839-1840

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

1870-1877

Cooke and Wheatstone's ABC telegraph transmitter

1840

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

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

1840

Tobacco tin - George Pearson, Darlington Conductor on the Great North of England Railway Coaches, April 13 1841

1841

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

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Model of "Firefly" class locomotive, about 1840

1840

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Portrait of Ada, Countess of Lovelace

1840

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

Gulden coin of Ludwig I (Bavaria, Germany)

1839

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE