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Replica of a hobby-horse cycle

circa 1900

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

Glass-stoppered bottle containing uranium

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

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

1897-1898

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

1899

Filings coherer, glass tube, 1898

1898

Receiving ‘jigger’ used by the Marconi Company, 1898

1898

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

1898

Watch with complications and minute repeating by Samuel Smith & Son

1899

Plaque for cot, Great Ormond Street Hospital

1900

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Block instrument (lock and block)

1897

Stained glass panel from Gorton Works

1897

Stained glass panel from Gorton Works

1897

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

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

Platt Brothers Notice

1899

Drawing frame

1901

Drawing frame

1901

Braiding Machine

circa 1900

Great Western Railway locomotive headlamp

1897

Great Western Railway locomotive headlamp

1897

Model railway carriage, 3rd class smoking compartment

1901

model steam locomotive - western railway of france

1901

Oval gilt and enamel lapel badge

1901

Cesare Urtis & Co - Forniture Electriche

1900

Yarn Balance

circa 1900

Casket presented to Francis William Webb

1899

Section of cross-Channel telephone cable, 1897

1897

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

1934

Billi condenser used for aerial tuning in Newfoundland, 1901

1901

Model of the Asklepion at Epidaurus, Greece, 1936

1936

Drawing of James Watt's Pumping Engine 1788

1897

Telescope by Galileo (replica)

1610; 1923

Isaac Newton’s Reflecting Telescope (replica)

1668; 1924

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

2050-1750 BCE

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

1990-95

Bersey Electric Taxi Cab

1897

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

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

Rigged model of the "Cutty Sark"

1900-1933 (model); 1869 (original)

Reynaud's Praxinoscope Theatre

1879 (1956)

Gramophone by HMV, 1897

1897

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

1580-1588; 1930

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

2000-1001 BCE

Timer for gas street lamp

circa 1900

H.M.V. gramophone soundbox, 1901.

1901

Liebig Condenser Tube

circa 1900

Liebig Condenser Tube

circa 1900

Whole model of the screw tug 'Victor'

1884-1885; 1919

Merritt typewriter, 1899

1899

Phonograph speaker

1900