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Model steam locomotive

1882

Wood-working brace drill, with button-operated latch chuck, 1875-1885

circa 1880

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Edison telephone, 1879

1879

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Crossley table telephone, 1879

1879

Fairlie steam locomotive model

1879

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Engraving: Watt's first experiment. Marcus Stone ARA pinxt; Herbert Bourne sculpt; published by Appleton & Co

1879

Curved bottom polishing iron, c.1880

1880

Lowdown Suite W.C. pedestal and tank

1882

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

Set of wheels from Blenkinsop Railway locomotive

1880

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

1880

Bezel wind wrist watch, c.1880

circa 1880

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

1879

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Tailboard, North Eastern Railway

1880

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

1934

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

1705-1737

Crossley telephone receiver, 1880

1880

Edison telephone peg switchboard and pegs, 1879

1879

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

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Saw bench

1879

Lancashire Loom

circa 1880

Jones 50-line switchboard, 1879.

1879

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Railway Director's Official Diary, Great Western Railway, 1880

1880

Scanning drum from LB Atkinson's Telectroscope

1882

Carte de visite of Ethel Friese-Greene and her cousin

circa 1881

Carte de visite of William Friese-Greeene and his daugher Ethel

circa 1880

Carte de visite of Ethel Friese-Greene and cousins

circa 1880

Hand powered cottage saw gin

1880

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

1883-01

Lawson 'Bicyclette', 1879

1879

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

Poster notifying a number of contagious diseases during an outbreak of animal epidemics

1880

Telephone receiver

1879

Telephone receiver 1881

1881

Vulcanite brooch in dark brown

1880

Brass saccharometer by R.B. Bate

1915-1825