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'Pedoscope' shoe-fitting X-ray viewer

1948-1953

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

1770

Gecophone Crystal Detector Radio Set No. 1, 1923

1923

A Stchety, Russian Abacus.

1901-1930

model sykes lock and block signalling system

1875

Model railway turntable

1850

Table, formerly the property of George Stephenson

1819-1905

Reproduction of Egyptian head in mahogany

1790-1819

Slide rule for exchange of weights and measures

1815

Double brass stand for bell jars on a brass pillar

1761

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

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

1865-1866

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

Marine chronometer by Brockbanks

1802

Cuff-type compound microscope

1790-1810

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

1797-1804

London & Birmingham Railway clock

1837

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

Thornton-Pickard Amber camera

circa 1897

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

1790-1819

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

1878

Single needle telegraph, 1846

1846

Cooke and Wheatstone's double needle telegraph, 1844

1844

Fairlie steam locomotive model

1879

Swan electric lamp

1878-1879

Wheatstone concertina

1829-1851

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

1848-1852

Cooke and Wheatstone's four needle telegraph, 1838

1838

Pullman Car Company, called Topaz

1913

Short mahogany strip brass pin gauge with five pins

1758-1769

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

1790-1819

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

1790-1819

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

1936

Demainbray's optical model

1752

London Brighton & South Coast Railway tool chest

Mahogany cross-piece for an air pump

1761

George III's Magdeburg hemispheres

1761

Mahogany board with round ends and two short brass pillars

1761

Thomson's mirror galvanometer, 1858

1858

Gold watch made for Queen Amelie of France by Henri Motel

circa 1840

Deck-watch used by Capt. William Parry during his attempt to reach the North Pole, 1827

1823