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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

Series of 11 photographs (some duplicates)

1883

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

Poster giving notice that an area of contagious disease is now dissolved

1883

Telephone receiver

1879

Telephone receiver 1881

1881