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Category
Collection
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Place
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Date

Tables of lifetimes, annuities, and premiums

1864

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

Silver thimble, used to pass a current through the 1866 Transatlantic cable, 1860-1866

1860-1866

Pioneers of Electric Telegraphy at the British Association

1865

Model of human eye

1870

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

1866-1870

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Croll Testimonial silver gilt fountain, Parcel-gilt Victorian silver rosewater fountain designed as a table centrepiece

1870

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

1860

Telegraph block instrument; Walker's

1865

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

York apprentices model train - North Eastern Railway

1870

Writing machine for blind people, United Kingdom, 1862

1862

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

1860

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

1870

Enfield Carbine Rifle

circa 1860

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

1934

Polarized 'guillotine' relay, 1862-1866

1862-1866

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

1870-1877

Sample of transatlantic cable, 1865-66

1865-1866

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

1862

Portrait of Isaac Newton

1862-1863

Items used by Louis Pasteur, 19th Century.

1861-1870

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

English-Built 'Boneshaker' Bicycle

1865-1870

Zoetrope strip: Butterfly and Poppy

circa 1868

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

Replica of Lightning Conductor by Benjamin Franklin, United States, 1730-1760

1730-1760 (original); 1931-1939 (replica)

Rigged model of the "Cutty Sark"

1900-1933 (model); 1869 (original)

Model of a Jacquard loom, with shuttle and components

1867

Two Kineograph Flicker Books

circa 1868

Stephenson family (Birthplace of the locomotive)

1861

Electrotype replica of a 16th-century mariner’s astrolabe

1580-1588; 1930

Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

2000-1001 BCE

Sutton Panoramic Camera

1860-1866

Reis telephone, 1863.

1863

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

1862-1863

Zoetrope strip: Badgered Cat

1860s

'Boneshaker' bicycle

1868

Bottle, clear glass

1862-1863

Model of the four-bladed screw propeller from HMS 'Lord Warden' (1865)

1865-1870

Copy of a cippus showing Horus, Egypt, 1900-1933

1900-1933

Model of H.M. Brigantine 'Dolphin'

1950-1977 (model); 1836 (original)

Model of submersible 'Turtle'

1976; 1776