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Category
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Material
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'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

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

1705-1737

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

1934

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

1990-95

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Model of submersible 'Turtle'

1976; 1776

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Copy of Lodestone believed to have been used by Queen Anne

1929 (copy); 1702-1714 (original)

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

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Forth Bridge Railway Co. rivet from Forth Bridge

1888; 1984

Reproduction of Joseph Priestley's oxygen apparatus

1774; 1923

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

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

1730; 1967

Iron Weight

1910-130

RGD Television

1965-195

One of two Sumerian solid cylindrical weights

circa 2000 BCE

2 circular plaster casts of the 2 halves of a Greek coin

700-100 BCE; 1930-1950

Stella Projection Television Receiver, Type ST1481

1950-159

Roman stone water main

30

Replica of Roman equal-arm balance, from Pompeii, 79 AD

1-79 CE; before 1914

Poncelet's Water Wheel, 1824

1824 (original); 1891 (model)

Address to William Smith on his retirement

1894-05

Laboratory rack with 9 test tubes and reagent bottles

circa 1890; c1900

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

2000-100 BCE

Contemporary model of extensions to Chatham Dockyard (1870)

1862-1877; 1965; 1965

Model of Ggantija megalithic temple on the Maltese island of Gozo, 3000-2500 BC.

3000-2500 BCE

Bronze Axehead from France, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Bronze Spearhead without Shaft, European, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Flint Knife and Scraper, Stone Age

8500-2000 BCE

Bronze Chisel-head, Britanny, France, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Copper Axehead from Ancient Egypt, 1991-1786BC

1991-1786 BCE

Copper Axehead from Ancient Egypt, 1991-1786BC

1991-1786 BCE

Bronze Adze with Modern Wooden Handle, Bronze Age

2000-500 BCE

Twelve German jetons, 16th century.

1501-1600; 1978

Cast of a Saxon Sundial, original at Kirkdale Church, Yorkshire

1935-1958 (reproduction); 1055-1064 CE (original)

Whole model of the screw tug 'Victor'

1884-1885; 1919