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Date

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Wise's Patent Train Staff

1886

Mantel clock, presented to T.W. Worsdell - Great Eastern Railway

circa 1885

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Model of Robert Duncan's screw propeller, with stern frame and rudder, as fitted to the Egyptian government yacht 'Sareea

1886-1887

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Model steam locomotive, North Eastern Railway

1884

Silver medal, commemorates the International Health Exhibition

1884

Brass worksplate no 917, Manning Wardle & Co

1884

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Model vertical cylinder fire engine

circa 1885

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Plaster model of a human eye, France, 1884

1884

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Spagnoletti intermediate signalling instrument

1885

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Rudge 'ordinary' or 'penny farthing' bicycle

1884

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

1705-1737

Watch by Sir John Bennett

1884

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

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

1934

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Parsons' steam turbine generator, 1884

1884

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

1990-95

Copy of a bloodletting measuring device, England, 1977

1977; 1204-1206

Replica of Lightning Conductor by Benjamin Franklin, United States, 1730-1760

1730-1760 (original); 1931-1939 (replica)

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Crossley Horizontal Single-cylinder Engine

1886

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

2050-1750 BCE

Reynaud's Praxinoscope Theatre

1879 (1956)

Thacher's cylindrical slide rule, 1884

1884

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Manchester Royal Jubilee Exhibition commemorative handkerchief

1887

Plans (9) of no. 249 S.S. "Lee Sang"

1885

Necklace, possibly galvanic

1884

Two washers

15/7/27

Specimen of Porthcurno shore end cable

1887

Booklet containing six carbon prints marking the International Health Exhibition

1884

Silicon steel bar fracture, 0.24% Si, 1884-1886

1884-1886

Two washers

15/7/27

Polished stone (Chert) weight from excavations at Mohenjodaro

circa 3000 BCE