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Babbage's Analytical Engine, 1834-1871. (Trial model)

1871

Thompson's Revolver Camera

1862

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

Replica of Daguerre-Giroux camera

1839 (original); circa 1988 (replica)

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

Model of human eye

1870

NER 0-6-0 '1001' class steam locomotive and tender, No 1275, 1874

1874

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

Steam locomotive, 'Bauxite'

1874

Skaife's Pistolgraph Camera

1858

Builder's whole, rigged model, of SS 'Great Eastern', 1853-1857

1853-1857

Replica of Islamic Astrolabe

1066; 1876

'Over London-by Rail', Engraving, London, England, 1872

1872

seal die - Colne Valley and Halstead Railway

1856

Wivenhoe & Brightlingsea Railway

1861

seal die - Bishop Stortford, Dunmow and Braintree railway

1861

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Early binaural stethoscope

1861-1866

Marey sphygmograph and case

1857-1870

John Ellis

1858

Model railway turntable

1850

Dagron microphotographic camera

circa 1860

London & South Western Railway Shark 2-4-0

circa 1868

Railway bridge section

1850

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Purse presented to George Hall esq

1853

Tobacco box - made from a piece of roman lead pipe

1854

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

One of four original Swan and Raven models

1867

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

1867

Mirror galvanometer for the transatlantic telegraph, 1858

1858

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

1865-1866

Wheatstone's portable ABC telegraph, 1858

1858

Specimen of Dover-Calais telegraph cable, 1851

1851

Wax portrait of Benjamin Lewis Vulliamy (1780 – 1854)

1851

Wax portrait of George Atkins (1766 – 1855) by Richard Cockle Lucas

1852

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

Bridge plaque - 1855

1855

Stirling single locomotive wheel casting pattern, Great Northern Railway

1870

Cast iron plaque from Queenstown Road Bridge, Battersea, London, 1865

1865

Marble statue of George Stephenson, 1852

1852

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Magnetic key, 1850-1870

1850-1870

Clark's block signalling telegraph instrument, 1854

1854

Architect's model of S&J Watts' warehouse

1850-1856

Great Western Railway model of 'Iron Duke', 1851

1851

Thomson's mirror marine galvanometer, 1858

1858

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

Sample of deep-sea section of first transatlantic cable, 1857-1858

1857-1858