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Strowger step-by-step automatic telephone exchange switch, 1897-1898

1897-1898

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Underwood 1 Typewriter, 1897

1897

Locomotive tender no. 1002, Great Northern Railway

1893

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

1896

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Vertical Compound Steam Engine with Hackworth's Valve Gear, 1898

1898

Bo-Third Rail No D75S

1898

Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

circa 1897

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

X-ray tube

1895-1899

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

1990-95

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Travelling tea case in leather case

1895

Hank Winding Machine

1897

National Telephone Company directory, 1898-1899

1898-1899

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

1934

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

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

1705-1737

Bersey Electric Taxi Cab

1897

Carding Engine

1896

Iron borings coherer (Branly type), 1894

1894

Great Northern Railway 0-6-0ST steam locomotive, No 1247, 1899

1899

Electrotype replica of a 16th-century mariner’s astrolabe

1580-1588; 1930

Experimental transmitting ‘jigger’ used by the Marconi Company, 1899

1899

Block instrument (lock and block)

1897

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

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

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Model of Gutenberg's Press, 1430

1960-1979

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

2050-1750 BCE

East Coast Joint Stock, 3rd Class railway carriage, 1898

1898

Receiving ‘jigger’ used by the Marconi Company, 1899

1899

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Presentation scissors, SS Vienna

1894

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

1894

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Steam locomotive, number 673

1897

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Wooden casing and capping for electrical cables

1895

Model of Henry Cavendish's Torsion Balance Gravitational Apparatus, 1798

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

Reynaud's Praxinoscope Theatre

1879 (1956)

Steam locomotive 'Dean Goods', Great Western Railway

1897

Mummy of a peregrine falcon, Egypt, 2000-1001 BCE

2000-1001 BCE

Going North, King's Cross Station

1893