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Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

1866

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

1867

Silver model of the Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross Station

1867-1868

London & South Western Railway Shark 2-4-0

circa 1868

Novelty model

1955; 1830

One of four original Swan and Raven models

1867

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

1867

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

1705-1737

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

1870-1877

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

1934

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Domestic Sewing Machine for chain stitich

1868

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Sectional Model of a Beam Engine, 1866.

1866

The Affianced

July 1867

Annie Chinery Cameron

1868

Axe head shaped flint

10000-5000 BCE

Iron Weight

1910-130

Bronze medal

1866

Gold medal presented to Sir Henry Bessemer by the Emperor Napoleon III in 1867

1867

Isaacvs Newtonus

1868

Black lignite from Turkey

before 1868

Verge repeating watch

1713-1750

Shaly lignite from Nicaragua

before 1866

Elastic bituminous substance from Australia

before 1866

The first Wheeler and Wilson sewing machine, 1866.

1866

Lever watch in case

1800-1830

Coal from Springfield

before 1866

Petroleum testing apparatus

circa 1868

The Bristol and Clifton Life Boat

1866

Charles Darwin

1868

Lever watch in pair case with crank roller

1800-1830

Cylinder watch in case with thin horizontal movement

1801-1850

Cylinder watch in case

1801-1825

Book, A W Hofmann - The Chemical Laboratories in Course of Erection in the Universities of Bonn and Berlin

1866

Cylinder watch in pair case

1692-1730

Print, etching of Night scene in European city

1940-1050

Trade card: Peter Frith & Compy.

1866

Coal from Acvere River

before 1868

Mass of cuprous oxide found in a furnace bottom

1867

Address to William Smith on his retirement

1894-05