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'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Parsons' steam turbine generator, 1884

1884

Silver medal, commemorates the International Health Exhibition

1884

Brass worksplate no 917, Manning Wardle & Co

1884

Novelty model

1955; 1830

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

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Model steam locomotive, North Eastern Railway

1884

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Plaster model of a human eye, France, 1884

1884

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

1884

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

Watch by Sir John Bennett

1884

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

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

Pendulum clock designed by Galileo in 1642 and made by his son in 1649, model.

1642-1649 (original); 1883 (model)

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Reynaud's Praxinoscope Theatre

1879 (1956)

Foucault Pendulum for demonstrating the Earth's rotation, with stand, divided arc, lapse clock, storage box

1883

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Burial mask of Agamemnon, Greek, c. 1550 BCE

1600-1500 BCE (original); 1900-1914 (copy)

Sunset and afterglow, Krakatoa, 9 November 1883.

1883

Model of an Assyrian kelek or raft of inflated ox-hides, one of three models of Babylonian vessels of skin

700 BCE; 1931

Model of Mud House

6000-5000BCE

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Flymo Super Professional 47 rotary air cushion mower

Flymo Super Professional 47 rotary air cushion mower

1979-80

Simple aquatic microscope, with box-foot stand

1795-1805

Sky Sketches, illustrating optical phenomena ...

1883

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Microtome by W E Boeker Wetzlar dated 1883

1883

Holden and Brooke's patent Exhaust Steam Injector

1884

A mercury vacuum gauge by Carsartelli

1884

Bust on wooden base of Andrew Ross

1859; 1986

One pair of screw wheels in gear

circa 1883

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50