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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Brake composite/observation saloon

1897

Felt and Tarrant Comptometer, 1887.

circa 1900

Replica of a hobby-horse cycle

circa 1900

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

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

1705-1737

Glass-stoppered bottle containing uranium

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

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

1934

Receiving ‘jigger’ used by the Marconi Company, 1898

1898

Portrait bust of Lord Kelvin, 1896

1896

Watch with complications and minute repeating by Samuel Smith & Son

1899

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

Section of cross-Channel telephone cable, 1897

1897

Filings coherer, glass tube formed into bulbs at each end at right angles, 1899

1899

Filings coherer, glass tube, 1898

1898

Filings coherer, glass tube bent at 45-degree angle at one end to form side-pocket, 1898

1898

Plaque for cot, Great Ormond Street Hospital

1900

Electric hairbrush

1896-1900

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Great Western Railway locomotive headlamp

1897

Great Western Railway locomotive headlamp

1897

Dining Car number 76, London & North Western Railway

1900

Ceramic tile map of North Eastern Railway

circa 1900

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

1990-95

Steam locomotive, number 245

1897

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

Bersey Electric Taxi Cab

1897

Drawing of James Watt's Pumping Engine 1788

1897

Model of submersible 'Turtle'

1976; 1776

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Mousetrap Camera

1834-1836

'Photo-rotoscope' 35mm projector mechanism

1896

Gramophone by HMV, 1897

1897

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

300 BCE; 1905-1915

Copy of Lodestone believed to have been used by Queen Anne

1929 (copy); 1702-1714 (original)

Photograph of women walking with dogs

c1900

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

1899

Patent submitted by William Friese-Greene

1900

Four photographs

1897

Two photographs

1897

L'Heure de la Prière

1899

Two photographs

1897

Two photographs

1897

A photograph

1897

Two photographs

1897

Two photographs

1897

Ombre étrange

circa 1900s

Two photographs

1897

Four photographs

1897

Seven photographs

1897