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Place
Material
Date

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

Telegraph block instrument; Walker's

1865

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

York apprentices model train - North Eastern Railway

1870

Writing machine for blind people, United Kingdom, 1862

1862

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

1870

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

Reis telephone, 1863.

1863

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

1862-1863

'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

Model of early rock drill made by the

1862

Whole model of sailing ship 'Durham'

1866-1867

Votive plaque with right ear in relief

400 BCE-100 CE; 1900-1936

Inscribed votive plaque with pair of arms in relief

100 BCE-100 CE; 1900-1936

Rigged contemporary dockyard model of the six-gun screw sloop HMS 'Eclipse'

1866-1867

Earthenware jug

2000-1350

Inscribed votive plaque with breast in relief

100 BCE-100 CE; 1900-1936

Monocular and binocular microscope

1869

Bottle, clear glass

1862-1863

Whole rigged model of the clipper ship 'Stonehouse'

1866 (original) 1871 (model); 1906 (rigging modified)

Replica of Roman steelyard, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914

Earthenware oil jar

2000-1350