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Map of England and Wales jigsaw puzzle

circa 1860

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Larmuth Loom

circa 1860

Isambard Kingdom Brunel, English civil engineer, mid-19th century.

1860

Writing machine for blind people, United Kingdom, 1862

1862

Enfield Carbine Rifle

circa 1860

Sample of Bessemer Steel

1860

Polarized 'guillotine' relay, 1862-1866

1862-1866

Sample of transatlantic cable, 1865-66

1865-1866

Pioneers of Electric Telegraphy at the British Association

1865

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Sectional Model of a Beam Engine, 1866.

1866

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)

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

1862

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Decimal watch by Richard Dover Statter and Thomas Statter

1862

Reis telephone, 1863.

1863

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

The first Wheeler and Wilson sewing machine, 1866.

1866

Model of a Jacquard loom, with shuttle and components

1867

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

2050-1750 BCE

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

1990-95

Model of Henry Cavendish's Torsion Balance Gravitational Apparatus, 1798

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Chinese abacus

before 1863

Hughes' printing telegraph, 1860.

1860

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Silk skirt and blouse dyed with Perkin's mauve aniline dye

1862-1863

School exercise book, English, 1862.

1862

Distinguished Men of Science

1862

Henry John Stedman Cotton

1867

Mahogany wet-plate camera with 4 double dark slide film holders & focussing screen

circa 1860

Pocket surgical instrument set

1866

Medal awarded at the London Exhibtion of 1862

1862

Four and a half inch refracting telescope made by J.B Dancer

circa 1860

Gold amulet in the form of Duamutef, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

2000-100 BCE

Binocular Compound Microscope

1861

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

1883-01

Hugon Gas Engine, 1867

1867

Page from 'Mécanisme de la Physionomie Humaine'

1862

Page from 'Mécanisme de la Physionomie Humaine'

1862

Cover page from 'Mécanisme de la Physionomie Humaine'

1862

Page from 'Mécanisme de la Physionomie Humaine'

1862

Joseph Burch

1860

Wooden backstaff or Davis quadrant made by John Gilbert on Tower Hill

1730; 1967

Lorina, Edith and Alice Liddel

1872-08

Great North of Scotland Railway Timetables

1867

Revised Classification of Merchandise Traffic and Revised Schedule of Maximum Rates and Charges Applicable thereto, proposed to be charged by the Eastern and Midlands Railway Company

1889-02

Steam Trap Used By James Joule

1860