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Category
Collection
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Place
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North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Brass worksplate no 517, Manning Wardle & Co

1875

model sykes lock and block signalling system

1875

Novelty model

1955; 1830

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

1876

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

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

1876

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Catgut suture

1875

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

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

1876

Lithograph of Daniel Spills Ivorideworks by Daniel Greenaway, 1875

1875

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)

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Captain Roux's 'Paracyclone'

1875

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

Pressed glass vase by John Derbyshire

circa 1876

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Photograph of William Friese-Greene and family

circa 1875 (original)

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

2000-100 BCE

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

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

1730; 1967

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

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

Photograph of a Fresnel lens used by Melloni and a bust of Melloni

1876

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE