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Marine Timekeeper known as 'H5' by John Harrison and Son 1770

1770

'Pedoscope' shoe-fitting X-ray viewer

1948-1953

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Prestwich Model 5 cine camera used by Herbert Ponting

1910

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Marine chronometer by Brockbanks

1802

Compagnie Internationale de Wagon-Lits et de Grands Express Europeens sleeping car, 1936

1936

London & Birmingham Railway clock

1837

Table, formerly the property of George Stephenson

1819-1905

Fairlie steam locomotive model

1879

Model railway turntable

1850

Model of Rotative Beam Engine by William Tongue, c. 1804

1797-1804

Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

circa 1897

Reproduction of Egyptian head in mahogany

1790-1819

A Stchety, Russian Abacus.

1901-1930

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

Long mahogany strip brass pin gauge with five pins

1758-1769

Short mahogany strip brass pin gauge with eight pins

1758-1769

Perspective drawing apparatus, incomplete, in integral mahogany case

1760-1770

Long mahogany strip brass pin gauge with eight pins

1758-1769

Wheatstone concertina

1829-1851

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Lord Kelvin's 'ironclad' marine galvanometer, 1865-1866

1865-1866

Henley's magneto electric double needle telegraph, 1848-1852

1848-1852

Single needle telegraph, 1846

1846

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Deck watch by John Arnold and Son

1790

Deck watch by Breguet et Fils

1830

Marine chronometer by Thomas Earnshaw

1795-1805

Marine chronometer by Charles Young

1801-1900

Marine chronometer by E. Barthet, found on an abandoned ship

1840

Marine chronometer by John Arnold

1802

Eight-day marine chronometer by Barrauds, London

1816

model sykes lock and block signalling system

1875

Cuff-type compound microscope

1790-1810

9" Dovetail saw with open mahogany handle, brass back and steel blade

1790-1819

London Brighton & South Coast Railway tool chest

Model (scale 1:4) of pair of "Janney" couplings; model (scale 1:8) old pattern couplings

1873

Mahogany “Damping well”, part of Watt's letter copying process

1790-1819

Mahogany “Damping well”, part of Watt's letter copying process

1790-1819

Short mahogany strip brass pin gauge with five pins

1758-1769

Pullman Car Company, called Topaz

1913

Coast Navigator

Felt and Tarrant Comptometer, 1887.

circa 1900

Case for Culpeper microscope

1720-1730

Magnetic toy by George Adams

1765

Sundial making tool

1690-1710

Demainbray's optical model

1752