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'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Cooke's train signalling instrument of 1845, Norfolk Railway

1845

Single-needle block instrument

1845

Model of Arthur Parsey's compressed air locomotive, 1845

1845

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Thames Tunnel opening commemorative medal, 1843

1843

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Cooke and Wheatstone double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Seal die, The Southampton & Dorchester Railway Company

1845

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Two lancets in a patterned silver case

1844

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

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

1705-1737

Plaster model of the lunar surface

1844

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

1870-1877

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)

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Henson's Flying Machine model [1843]. With stand and pieces of fabric.

William Henson's model of his 'Aerial Steam Carriage'

1843

Silhouette of boy

1844-02-10

Notebook P

1844-1845

Notebook Q

1844-1845

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

1883-01

The New Great Western Timetable

1844

Lorina, Edith and Alice Liddel

1872-08

Album of cyanotypes with mounted and dried ferns from various locations

circa 1843

Manuscript diary of Alfred Kitching

1843-1844

Chess players

circa 1844

Benjamin Hick

1843

HM Paddle Frigate 'Terrible'

1845

The Flying Steam Company, to China in twenty-four hours certain

circa 1843

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Past and Present

1845

The Shakespere Cliffe, and Tunnel

1844

Coloured lithograph. "East View of Ely from the Railway"

1845

Reversible axe on adze, green stone blade, North Papua (Astrolabe Bay)

2000 BCE

The man wot knows how to get up the steam

1845

James Watt

1845

Bronze medal commemorating the Austrian physician Rettenbach

1843