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Category
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Early telephone by Alexander Graham Bell, 1877.

1877

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

1990-95

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Saint's sewing machine, 1874.

1874

Model of submersible 'Turtle'

1976; 1776

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Replica of Edison's First Phonograph, 1877.

1877

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Rigged model of the Portuguese ironclad battleship 'Vasco de Gama'

1875-1876

Copy of Roman artificial leg, London, England, 1905-1915

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Glass display case containing various cosmetic devices from the 1700s, England, 1880-1930

1701-1800

Copy of Lodestone believed to have been used by Queen Anne

1929 (copy); 1702-1714 (original)

Rulebook for the Thetford & Watton Railway Company

1876

Revised Classification of Merchandise Traffic and Revised Schedule of Maximum Rates and Charges Applicable thereto, proposed to be charged by the Eastern and Midlands Railway Company

1889-02

Hofmann's apparatus for decomposing phosphuretted hydrogen

1876

Bust of Sir William Fairbairn

1875

Laussedat type camera lucida, with trade cards

1875

Hyperboloid and Asymptotic Cone, surface string model

1872

London: A Pilgrimage

1872

Lathe bed and harmonic turnings

circa 1875

Set of 8 glass avoirdupois weights from 7lbs to 1oz, the larger adjusted with lead shot, in case

circa 1876

Inmates sharpening tools

1871

Inmate at a loom

1871

Haemacytometer, Paris, France, 1874

1874

Photograph of William Friese-Greene and family

circa 1875 (original)

Pocket surgical instrument case in rolled leather case

1875-1877

Case of surgical instruments by Lynth and Thornton

1873

Medal awarded at the London Exhibition, 1873

1873

Gooch centrepiece, 1872

1872

Anne Thackeray

circa 1872

Engravings of colour sketches showing solar prominences by Etienne Leopold Trouvelot

1872

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

1883-01

Railway model, Locomotion No.1

1875

Piece of metal rescued from the Abbots Ripton accident

1876

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Cupping set

1878

Map, Railway Clearing House

1874

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

1730; 1967

Circular slide rule by Troughton and Simms

1877

Lorina, Edith and Alice Liddel

1872-08

Caution List of Convictions

1885-09

Medal, gilded metal

1875

John Derbyshire Vase

1876

Iron Weight

1910-130

One of two Sumerian solid cylindrical weights

circa 2000 BCE

Sheppard's cubing slide rule, boxwood

1876

2 circular plaster casts of the 2 halves of a Greek coin

700-100 BCE; 1930-1950

16 Lever Signal Lever Frame

1874

Petzval Portrait type of Doublet Lens

c. 1875

Ross 'Wheel of Life' magic lantern slide

circa 1871