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Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Railway bridge section

1850

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

Model railway turntable

1850

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Bain's chemical telegraph, 1850.

1850

Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

1851

Wax portrait of George Atkins (1766 – 1855) by Richard Cockle Lucas

1852

Bridge link

1852

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Four-Wheeled Hand Crane

1850

Lucien Sharpe sheet metal gauge

circa 1850

Oil painting depicting Robert Stephenson

circa 1850s

Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934

1934

Sample of 1851 Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Lead weight marked 'Reid' from the first cross-Channel telegraph cable, 1850.

1850

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1870-1877

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

Portable double-needle telegraph and test set, 1850

1850

Watch made for the 1851 Great Exhibition by Alexander Watkins

1851

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

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

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

1990-95

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Moon: West of Tycho

1851

Drawing of Singhi Dalan in Rajmahal, Jharkhand, India

1856-11

Portrait lithograph print of George Dollond, 1851

1851

Automaton monkey

1850

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Model of a Montgolfier Balloon, 1783

First Public Demonstration of a Montgolfier Balloon, 4th June, 1783.

1783; 1914

Bronze medal

1851

Circular silver prize medal

1852

Bronze medal

1852

Circular silver medal

1850

Copper medal to commemorate J.B.L. Gresset

1851

Bronze token

1852

Medal, silver, commemorating the foundinf of Leyden University

1850

Copper medal by Farochon issued by Association des Medecins de la Seine to honoour founder M.J.B. Orfila

1851-1852

Bronze medal

1852

Bronze medal to commemorate the opening of a building at Groningen University

1850