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Category
Collection
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Object type
Place
Material
Date

Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Model vertical cylinder fire engine

circa 1885

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)

Wise's Patent Train Staff

1886

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

circa 1885

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

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

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Spagnoletti intermediate signalling instrument

1885

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Midland Railway composite carriage

1885

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

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

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

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

Reynaud's Praxinoscope Theatre

1879 (1956)

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

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

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

1885

Set of three brass Imperial capacity measures

1885

Two boxed sets of Genaille's rods

1885

Photograph showing 4 different expressions

circa 1886

Coradi planimeter and map, 1886.

1886

Engineering plan for Tower Bridge showing Tower Bridge Northern Abutment

1886

Rocking microtome, Cambridge, England, 1885

1885

Gold amulet in the form of Duamutef, Egypt, 2000-100 BCE

2000-100 BCE

Engineering plan for Tower Bridge showing Loads of West Wall of Gen. Steam Nav Co.s Warehouse at Ironsgate Stairs

1886

"17 inch" plate Wimshurst electrostatic machine

1885

Peck measure

1885

Bushel measure

1885

Wooden backstaff or Davis quadrant made by John Gilbert on Tower Hill

1730; 1967

Crossley Horizontal Single-cylinder Engine

1886

Kreusler's fat extraction apparatus and stand

1886

Revised Classification of Merchandise Traffic and Revised Schedule of Maximum Rates and Charges Applicable thereto, proposed to be charged by the Eastern and Midlands Railway Company

1889-02

Granular carbon-type telephone transmitter

circa 1885

Etching, hand-coloured. Gurney's New Steam Carriage. Annotated

1885