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Category
Collection
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Place
Material
Date

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Shoehorn made from Rescued Brass from Thirsk Disaster

1892

Ring transformer, 1892

1892

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Locomotive tender no. 1002, Great Northern Railway

1893

Ottawa & Gatineau Valley Railway commemorative salver

1893

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

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

1705-1737

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

1934

Glass-stoppered bottle containing uranium

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

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Crypto Cycle

1892

Standard resistor

1893

Standard resistor

1893

Standard resistor

1893

Self-recording voltmeter, by Richard Freres, 1892-1893

1892-1893

Slide-wire potentiometer for industrial use

1893

10-Inch JuniorTrig 0902 Aristo slide rule from the 1974 catalogue

1970-1875

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Roman Coin of Tiberius

30 CE

Standard resistor

1893

Red granite drill core

2686-2613 BCE

Bust on wooden base of Andrew Ross

1859; 1986

Solar Corona 1893 April 16

1893

NEMA cryptography machine type T-D

1945-50

Hot-wire voltmeter

1893

Empire typewriter No.1, 1892, serial no.68107

1892

Gardner typewriter, c. 1893

1893

Calf's Head Weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931

Plaster replica of black Basalt Cubit Rod 531

1931; 250 BCE

Plaster replica of IBEX weight

1370-1350 BCE; 1931

Drawing. [A German war balloon] / Schonberg

1892

Black stone container or palette

2000-1000

Harpenden pocket stadiometer sent out to Ludlow Boys' School as part of a series of nationwide measurements

1972-3

Plano-convex brick, Ubaid, Iraq, c 2500 BC.

2500 BCE

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

1990-95

Lampholder, porcelain, ship's saloon fitting

1892

Small pump for pneumatic cycle tyres

1892

Ancient Egyptian flint saw, replica

circa 3000 BCE

Reversible axe on adze, green stone blade, North Papua (Astrolabe Bay)

2000 BCE

Silver medal commemorating Andres Bello

1893