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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

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

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

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

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

1580-1588; 1930

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

Novelty model

1955; 1830

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

Platt Brothers Notice

1898

Great Western Railway locomotive headlamp

1897

Glass-stoppered bottle containing uranium

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

Section of cross-Channel telephone cable, 1897

1897

Tube used in the discovery of the electron, about 1896

1896

Forth Bridge Railway Co. rivet from Forth Bridge

1888; 1984

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

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

Launch Of HMS 'Albion' At Blackwall

1898-06-21

Model of Mud House

6000-5000BCE

X-ray installation

1896-1897