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Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

Portion of one of the iron clamps from the Parthenon at Athens

before 1889

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Model ground signal, North London Railway

1888

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Copper ore from the Bell Mine

before 1889

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

before 1889

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1934

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Cupriferous sandstone from Schweinkopf

before 1889

Great Western Railway splasher plate

1889

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

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Spark gap or knob coherer, 1889

1889

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

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

1990-95

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Lancashire Boiler

1889

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Model of a Montgolfier Balloon, 1783

First Public Demonstration of a Montgolfier Balloon, 4th June, 1783.

1783; 1914

Medal, bronze, commemorating Luigi Galvani

1888

Lithograph: La Tour Merveilleuse

1888

Early moving coil voltmeter

1889

Rheostat, Kelvin Pattern

1888

"Vernier" potentiometer (Thomson-Varley slides)

1889

Wheatstone's bridge (Post Office Pattern)

1889

Muirhead Clark standard cell

1888

No.12 lockstitch sewing machine head

1888

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Chromium steel valve from a steam engine indicator by McInnes-Dobbie Limited

1888 (design date)

Stone quarry on the Island of Portland - 1889. Unsigned watercolour

1889

Bust on wooden base of Andrew Ross

1859; 1986

Model of crank shaft bearing with two adjusments

1888

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

Exposition Universelle

1889