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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)

Geometrical Groin Vault, string surface model

1872

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

1873

Tables of lifetimes, annuities, and premiums

1864

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

1705-1737

Sample of transatlantic cable, 1865-66

1865-1866

Pioneers of Electric Telegraphy at the British Association

1865

Gold lever watch by George Blackie

1873

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

1866-1870

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

1870

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

Polarized 'guillotine' relay, 1862-1866

1862-1866

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

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Portrait of Isaac Newton

1862-1863

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

1990-95

Improved Patent Magneto Electric Machine for nervous diseases

1862

Model of a Jacquard loom, with shuttle and components

1867

Copy of a bloodletting measuring device, England, 1977

1977; 1204-1206

English-Built 'Boneshaker' Bicycle

1865-1870

Reis telephone, 1863.

1863

The first Wheeler and Wilson sewing machine, 1866.

1866

‘Autoperipatetikos’ Walking Doll

1862

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

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

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

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

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

2050-1750 BCE

Two Kineograph Flicker Books

circa 1868

Queen Victoria's Saloon

1869

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

'Sutherland' steam fire engine

1863

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Isle of Man Railway "Pender" Locomotive

1873

Zoetrope strip: Humming Bird

circa 1868

Magic lantern slide: Roast meat attacks a man

1870

Magic lantern slide: Housemaid and chimney sweep

1870

Magic lantern slide: Dancing elephant

1870

Magic lantern slide: Man and wet paint

1870

Hyperboloid and Asymptotic Cone, surface string model

1872

Non-Smokers' appeal to the Great Northern Railway Company

1866

NER instructions to engine drivers

1867

Station electrometer by James White

1867

The opening ceremony of the Metropolitan & Provincial Working Classes exhibition at the Agricultural Hall, Islington

1866

Rocking Bar keyless watch mechanism

circa 1870

Proposed benzene structures, late 19th century

1865