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Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
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Date

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

Wivenhoe & Brightlingsea Railway

1861

seal die - Bishop Stortford, Dunmow and Braintree railway

1861

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Dagron microphotographic camera

circa 1860

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Lid for Self Cleansing carbon filter

circa 1861

Child's ceramic alphabet bowl, North Staffordshire Railway

1860

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Paddlewheel used by James Joule

c1860

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

1860

Larmuth Loom

circa 1860

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

1934

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

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

Charles Babbage

1860

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Vesicular slag from the blast-furnaces at Russell Hall Iron Works

1861

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Chadwick Vertical Steam Engine

1860

Model of a Montgolfier Balloon, 1783

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

1783; 1914

Bronze medal commemorating the four hundredth anniversary of the lunatic asylum at Utrecht

1861

Bronze medal awarded to M. Garbominy

1861

Bronze medal to commemorate a visit of King Leopold I of Belgium to the University of Ghent

1860

Bronze medal with head of Napoleon III by Pingret

1860

Silver medal commemorating Lavoisier and founding of Chambre Syndicale des Produits Chimiques

1860

Bronze medal to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Royal Academy of Norway

1861

Silver medal to commemorate the events of the year 1861

1861

Bronze medal presented to the students of Liege University

1860

Medal, copper gilt

1861

Prussian Order of the Crown Medal

1861

Medal, University of Edinburgh prize for midwifery

1860

Bronze medal

1860

Medal commemorating inauguration of Victoria Bridge

1860

Andre-Marie Ampere

1825; 1910

Model, of blade from Crispin's patent 1860 screw propellor

1861

Copy of Musschenbroek's Pyrometer (Dilatometer), 1700-1731.

1877 (copy); 1700-1731 (original)