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Category
Collection
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Place
Material
Date

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

1876

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Catgut suture

1875

Brass worksplate no 517, Manning Wardle & Co

1875

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

1876

model sykes lock and block signalling system

1875

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

1934

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

1876

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)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Lithograph of Daniel Spills Ivorideworks by Daniel Greenaway, 1875

1875

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Rulebook for the Thetford & Watton Railway Company

1876

Photograph of William Friese-Greene and family

circa 1875 (original)

Collection of material relating to the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Stockton & Darlington Railway

1875

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

1883-01

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

1730; 1967

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3

Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.

2500 BCE

Length of red silk ribbon worn as a belt to promote general good health

1880-120

Brass saccharometer by R.B. Bate

1915-1825

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

1990-95

Uterine probe

1901-950

Omega Nebula

1876

Lever watch in pair case with crank roller

1800-1830

Cylinder watch in case with thin horizontal movement

1801-1850

Lever watch in case

1800-1830

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

Portrait of Marc Seguin

1875

Bichromate battery, 1876

1876

Bust on wooden base of Andrew Ross

1859; 1986

Lowne patent sympiezometer

1875

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

James Prescott Joule

1876

Thomas Henry Huxley

1876

Electro-magnet wound with copper strip

1876

Coil for Wiedemann's galvanometer

1876

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500