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Category
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Place
Material
Date

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

1775-1799 (original); 1900-1907 (model)

Portrait of Isaac Newton

1862-1863

Cast iron plaque from Queenstown Road Bridge, Battersea, London, 1865

1865

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Remington 44 Revolver

1863-1865

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

1864

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

London & North Western Railway steam locomotive 'Pet' 0-4-0ST

1865

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

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862

Distinguished Men of Science

1862

Portrait Bust of Thomas Russell Crampton

1865

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Tables of lifetimes, annuities, and premiums

1864

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

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

1934

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

1870-1877

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Telegraph block instrument; Walker's

1865

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Writing machine for blind people, United Kingdom, 1862

1862

Pioneers of Electric Telegraphy at the British Association

1865

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

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

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

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

Medal awarded at the London Exhibtion of 1862

1862

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

2000-100 BCE