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Commemorative spade used to turn the first sod of the River Lee Conservancy's new cutting through Horse Shoe Point

1878

Brass worksplate no 517, Manning Wardle & Co

1875

Catgut suture

1875

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Replica of Bell's 1876 'iron-box' receiver, 1959

1876

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Full size wooden model of Beloe's double rail and chair

1877

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

1876

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

model sykes lock and block signalling system

1875

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Model (scale 1:4) of pair of "Janney" couplings; model (scale 1:8) old pattern couplings

1873

Panorama de Paris

1878

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

1873

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Bronze ticket medal for admission and commemoration of the exposition et congres d' Hygiene et de Sauvetage

1876

Wrap reel/Hank winder

1877

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

1705-1737

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Set of six test tubes with stand, used by Joseph Lister

1875-1878

NER 0-6-0 '1001' class steam locomotive and tender, No 1275, 1874

1874

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Lithograph of Daniel Spills Ivorideworks by Daniel Greenaway, 1875

1875

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

1934

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

1878

Bell Transmitter with Membrane Diaphragm, 1875-1877

1875-1877

Pair of Bell telephones, 1878

1878

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Steam locomotive, 'Bauxite'

1874

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Petzval Portrait type of Doublet Lens

c. 1875

Medal, bronze, marking centenary of death of Albrecht von Haller

1877

Medal, Roman cross

1876

Medal, bronze, commemorating Andre Marie Ampere

1873

Medal, bronze, commemorating Andre Marie Ampere

1873

Medal, bronze, commemorating Jean Baptiste Dumas

1873

Bronze medal to commemorate Snellen van der Vollenhoven

1873

Bronze medal to commemorate F.E. Sander (1833-1878)

1878

Copper medal presented to Ed. van den Broeck

1876

Republique Francaise. Fete Nationale du 30 Juin, 1878

1878

North Eastern Railway Company ticket for banquet to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Stockton & Darlington Railway

1875

Andre-Marie Ampere

1825; 1910

William Harvey

1878