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Category
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Place
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Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

1870

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Novelty model

1955; 1830

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

Obstetrical forceps

1870s

Stirling single locomotive wheel casting pattern, Great Northern Railway

1870

York apprentices model train - North Eastern Railway

1870

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

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

Model of human eye

1870

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1870

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

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)

Queen Victoria's Saloon

1869

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

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

Punched cards for Babbage's Analytical Engine

circa 1870

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Magic lantern slide depicting Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, The Mad Hatter's Tea Party

1870s

'Hypatia'

circa 1870

Hindu astrolabe

1870

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

2000-100 BCE

Beale type self-illuminating ophthalmoscope, London, England, 1870

1870

Annie Chinery

circa 1870

Magic lantern chromatrope slide: 'A Merry Christmas'

1870

'The Guardian Angel'

circa 1870

Diapositives of Photographs of Sunspots taken by Elizabeth Beckley with the Kew Photoheliograph

1870

Walker's Railway Time Table, and Coach, Omnibus and Carriers' List

1883-01

Magic lantern slide: Two boys and a cracker

1870

Otto & Langen Free-Piston (Atmospheric) Gas Engine

1869

Harvey & Co Oscillating cylinder steam engine

1870

'Boneshaker' bicycle

1869

Wooden backstaff or Davis quadrant made by John Gilbert on Tower Hill

1730; 1967