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'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Model ground signal, North London Railway

1888

Novelty model

1955; 1830

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

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Scutcher, made by Platt Brothers & Co. Ltd

1889

The Demon Detective camera

1889

Single-lens Cine Camera by Louis Le Prince

1888

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)

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

1889

One of Fleming's first thermionic diode valves, 1889

1889

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Great Western Railway splasher plate

1889

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Spark gap or knob coherer, 1889

1889

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Cupriferous sandstone from Schweinkopf

before 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

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

Rigged model of the "Cutty Sark"

1900-1933 (model); 1869 (original)

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Rigged model of Flemish carvel construction Carrack

1910-1921

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

before 1889

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Model of a Montgolfier Balloon, 1783

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

1783; 1914

Medal, bronze, commemorating Luigi Galvani

1888

Early moving coil voltmeter

1889

Rheostat, Kelvin Pattern

1888

"Vernier" potentiometer (Thomson-Varley slides)

1889

Muirhead Clark standard cell

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