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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Writing machine for blind people, United Kingdom, 1862

1862

Thomson's mirror galvanometer, 1858

1858

'Thunder pump' magneto-electric device, 1856

1856

Letter to The Atlantic Telegraph Company, 1859

1859

Magneto-electrometer, 1857

1857

Chart of the Atlantic showing proposed course of the Atlantic Cable, 1856-1857

1856-1857

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

1870-1877

earthenware commemorative plate displaying the company seal of the Hull & Hornsea Railway

1860

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Bust of James Watt in Parian Ware made by Josiah Wedgwood & Sons from original by E.W. Wyon

after 1859

Larmuth Loom

circa 1860

Model of a Power Loom for Plain Weaving

1857

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Decimal watch by Richard Dover Statter and Thomas Statter

1862

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

1990-95

Distinguished Men of Science

1862

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

Drawing of Walter Bourne, East Indian Railway Resident Engineer, Mugra District, India

1857

Distinguished Men of Science of Great Britain living in the years 1807-1808

1862

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

2050-1750 BCE

Serrin's gravity fed and electromagnetically controlled arc lamp

after 1857

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Letter from Queen Victoria mentioning chloroform use in childbirth

1859

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

1862

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

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

Glass Harmonica

1862

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Burial mask of Agamemnon, Greek, c. 1550 BCE

1600-1500 BCE (original); 1900-1914 (copy)

Zoetrope strip: Badgered Cat

1860s

Flymo Super Professional 47 rotary air cushion mower

Flymo Super Professional 47 rotary air cushion mower

1979-80

German set of 11 cylindrical brass weights, and a set of 12 sheet brass weights in wooden box

1859

15-Copeck coin of Russia

1861

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Compound monocular microscope with drum base

1857-1860

Henley's discharging rod

1862

Thunder pump, 1856

1856

Russian Imperial standard, "Croncka"

1862

Bust on wooden base of Andrew Ross

1859; 1986

Dessin d'une Invention d'un Ballon aereostatique

1856

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

Commemorative plate featuring French chemist Baron Thenard

1857

Compound monocular microscope by Nachet and Son

1858-1862

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Charles Babbage

1860