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Rover 'Safety' Bicycle, 1885

1885

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

The Demon Detective camera

1889

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)

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

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

1886-1887

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Model vertical cylinder fire engine

circa 1885

Copper ore from the Bell Mine

before 1889

Arsenical cobalt or skutterudite, from Skutterude, near Modum, Norway

before 1889

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

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

Model ground signal, North London Railway

1888

Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

Great Western Railway splasher plate

1889

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Tank wagon, North Eastern Railway - Shell-Mex and BP Ltd

1889

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)

Cupriferous sandstone from Schweinkopf

before 1889

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Spark gap or knob coherer, 1889

1889

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Midland Railway composite carriage

1885

Lancashire Boiler

1889

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Weston's ratchet brace

1885-1888

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

Three-wheeled motor car

1888

Thornton-Pickard Roller-Blind Camera Shutter

1888

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

Crystalline finery slag

before 1889