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Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

North Eastern Railway, locomotive 910

1875

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

1878

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

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

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Catgut suture

1875

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Early telephone by Alexander Graham Bell, 1877.

1877

Replica of Edison's First Phonograph, 1877.

1877

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

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

1990-95

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

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

1934

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

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

1705-1737

Fairlie steam locomotive model

1879

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

1876

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

1876

European celestial globe

1878

Electrotype replica of a 16th-century mariner’s astrolabe

1580-1588; 1930

Bell Transmitter with Membrane Diaphragm, 1875-1877

1875-1877

Panorama de Paris

1878

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

1875-1878

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

2050-1750 BCE

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Meidinger battery cell

1876

Saw bench

1879

Shergold Safety Bicycle by Thomas Shergold

1878

Edison telephone peg switchboard and pegs, 1879

1879

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Repeating Theodolite

1875

Lawson 'Bicyclette', 1879

1879

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Model of Henry Cavendish's Torsion Balance Gravitational Apparatus, 1798

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

Reynaud's Praxinoscope Theatre

1879 (1956)

Original model of Edison's patent electric pen, 1875-1876

1875-1876

Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

2000-1001 BCE

Crossley table telephone, 1879

1879