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Place
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Date

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Silver presentation whistle and chain, London & South Western Railway

1853

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

William Thomson's marine mirror galvanometer, 1850-1900

1854

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1934

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

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

1705-1737

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

1870-1877

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

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Album of cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns

1853

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Drawing of Singhi Dalan in Rajmahal, Jharkhand, India

1856-11

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Model of a Montgolfier Balloon, 1783

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

1783; 1914

Bronze medal

1854

Circular bronze medal

1853

Circular bronze medal

1853

Circular bronze medal

1854

Lithograph of Crystal Palace Sydenham

1854

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Small portable microscope in metal case

1854

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Steel engraving. Hungerford Bridge

1854

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Receipt with letter heading. Richard Read

1853

Earthenware jug

2000-1350

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350

Earthenware dish

2000-1350

Alabaster kohl pot

2000-1350

Solid bronze phallic amulet in form of priapus with hind legs and tail of horse

30-200

Alabaster mortar

2000-1350

Bronze probe(?), twisted stem, Romano-Egyptian

20-500

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350