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Category
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Place
Material
Date

Model of Wright Flyer

1903

Mill Engine

1903

Oxygen cylinder used by climbers on 1953 Mount Everest expedition

1952-3

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

Ceramic tile map of North Eastern Railway

circa 1900

Ribbon loom with jacquard head

circa 1900

Replica of 1903 Wright Brothers' aero engine

after 1903

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

'City of Truro' Steam locomotive

1903

Bo-Bo No 1

1902

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

BP tank wagon

1901

Queen Alexandra's Saloon

1902

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

Ring spinning frame

1901

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 railway carriage, 3rd class smoking compartment

1901

Model of the periodic system of de Chancourtois

1925; 1862

The Ivel Agricultural Tractor

1902; 1913-1920

Edison 'Gem' phonograph, 1903.

1903

Model of Behr high speed monorail

1904

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

1990-95

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Hank Winding Machine

1897

National Telephone Company directory, 1898-1899

1898-1899

Braiding Machine

circa 1900

Midland Railway locomotive number 1000

1902

Felt and Tarrant Comptometer, 1887.

circa 1900

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

Gestetner's rotary cyclostyle no 6 duplicator (copier)

1902

Poured wax doll

circa 1900

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

Pocket watch

1904

Model of Great Central Railway "Atlantic" Express Locomotive

1903 (original); 1982 (model)

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