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Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

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

1705-1737

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Enamel notice, Dinorwic Quarries Railway

1895

London & South Western Railway pathway notice

1896

Cape Government locomotive and tender 4-8-0, 1896

1896

A T & T national telephone directory, October 1896

1896

Coherer with coarse brass turnings, 1894

1894

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Portrait of the Reverand Henry Nelthropp MA, FSA (1820 – 1901)

1896

Ring transformer, 1892

1892

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Shoehorn made from Rescued Brass from Thirsk Disaster

1892

model crane - little elephant

1896

Travelling tea case in leather case

1895

Presentation scissors, SS Vienna

1894

Model twin-screw steamship 'Kirkham', Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway

1896

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Brake van, London & South Western Railway

1894

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Glass-stoppered bottle containing uranium

1801-1892 (prepared); 1946 (element replaced)

Zither switch with open-wire multiple and two-motion ratchet drive, 1894

1894

Flat steel-spring (or watch-spring) coherer, 1894

1894

Iron borings coherer (Branly type), 1894

1894

Portrait bust of Lord Kelvin, 1896

1896

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Ottawa & Gatineau Valley Railway commemorative salver

1893

Locomotive tender no. 1002, Great Northern Railway

1893

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Carding Engine

1896

model stockton & darlington railway coach "experiment"

1895

Oval badge

1891

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

1934

Iron borings coherer (Branly type), 1894

1894

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Kodak No 1 Camera

circa 1891

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

Early Linotype composing machine, 1892

1892

Fitch typewriter, 1891

1891

Henrici's harmonic analyser, No 3, 1894.

1894

Letter written by Dr Neill Cream while in police custody, England, 1892

1892