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Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Small printing forme representing Linotype set matter

1886

Wise's Patent Train Staff

1886

Model ground signal, North London Railway

1888

Copper ore from the Bell Mine

before 1889

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

before 1889

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

Novelty model

1955; 1830

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

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

1886-1887

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Great Western Railway splasher plate

1889

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

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

1889

Cupriferous sandstone from Schweinkopf

before 1889

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

1705-1737

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

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

1934

Spark gap or knob coherer, 1889

1889

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

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

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Engineering plan for Tower Bridge showing Tower Bridge Northern Abutment

1886

Engineering plan for Tower Bridge showing Outline arrangements of steam engines

1889

Engineering plan for Tower Bridge showing Details of jointing and riveting of girders at site

1889

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

1886

Graphophone record cylinder

1887

Two Spools of Celluloid Made by Louis Le Prince and Case

1888-1889

Kilo-ampere balance (a) Box containing sliding weights

1888

Lock stitch sewing machine head with step feed for sewing leather or other heavy work

1888

No.12 lockstitch sewing machine head

1888

Bar-lock typewriter 1889

1889

Copper pyrites from California

before 1889

Coke for iron smelting, Dunbar Ironworks, Pennsylvania

before 1889

Two varieties of Pung Chung coal, China

before 1889

Rock supposed to contain gold from California.

before 1889

Small samples of iron ores from China

before 1889