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Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

A T & T national telephone directory, October 1896

1896

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

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

1896

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Novelty model

1955; 1830

model crane - little elephant

1896

Travelling tea case in leather case

1895

Enamel notice, Dinorwic Quarries Railway

1895

London & South Western Railway pathway notice

1896

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

1896

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

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

1896

Glass-stoppered bottle containing uranium

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

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

model stockton & darlington railway coach "experiment"

1895

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

1934

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Portrait bust of Lord Kelvin, 1896

1896

Carding Engine

1896

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

1705-1737

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

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

1990-95

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Replica of Lightning Conductor by Benjamin Franklin, United States, 1730-1760

1730-1760 (original); 1931-1939 (replica)

Whole rigged model of the clipper ship 'Stonehouse'

1866 (original) 1871 (model); 1906 (rigging modified)

Wooden casing and capping for electrical cables

1895

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Sample of Ferranti Concentric Cable

1896

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

Colour reproduction poster. 'Fetes de Ghezireh - au Caire 1896', by A Birck

1896

Timetable, Great Western Railway

1895

William Cudworth

1896

Medal commemorating Leopold Ritter von Dittel

1895

Copy of forceps made from an Egyptian sculpture, Kom-Ombos, Egypt, 1901-1936

1901-1936; 180 BCE

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

1798 (original); 1977 (model)

Camera for the production of coloured photographs by the tricolour process

1896

Glass-stoppered bottle containing vanadium

1801-1892 (prepared); 1926 (element replaced)

Glass-stoppered bottle containing bromine

1801-1892 (prepared); 1926 (element replaced)

Excavated neolithic flint perhaps used for trephination

3000-1500

Hand printing block

circa 1895

Hand printing block

circa 1895

Ferranti electric meter part

1895

Stone slab with seven holes for cosmetic ointments, Egypt, 1991-1786 BCE

1991-1786 BCE

Heliostat, contrived by the late G. Johnstone Stoney

1895

Twelve German jetons, 16th century.

1501-1600; 1978

Simple aquatic microscope, with box-foot stand

1795-1805

Envelope from Hodgson and Co sent to G. H. Gabb

1896

Pamphlet announcing 'The Rontgen Rays Demonstration, June 7th, 1896'

1896