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London & North Western Railway steam locomotive 'Pet' 0-4-0ST

1865

Stirling single locomotive wheel casting pattern, Great Northern Railway

1870

London & South Western Railway Shark 2-4-0

circa 1868

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

1871

Model of Grew's locomotive for ice

circa 1861

Ramsbottom speed indicator

1860

Early binaural stethoscope

1861-1866

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

1865

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

1865-1866

Sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

1866

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Lid for Self Cleansing carbon filter

circa 1861

One of the First Rechargeable Batteries, about 1860

1860

One of four original Swan and Raven models

1867

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

1867

Remington 44 Revolver

1863-1865

Signal Block Bell, South Eastern Railway

1862

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

1867

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

1864

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Novelty model

1955; 1830

William Thomson's Tide Predicting Machine, 1872

1872

England and her Soldiers

1859

Obstetrical forceps

1870s

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

circa 1871

Columnar Engine, 1862

1862

James Watt and the Steam Engine Print

1860

Silver model of the Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross Station

1867-1868

Operative Society of Bricklayers

1866-1870

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

1872

Model of the Lowe-Vansittart Screw Propeller Blades

1869

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

Basin from a pan closet

1860-1870

earthenware commemorative plate displaying the company seal of the Hull & Hornsea Railway

1860

Domestic Sewing Machine for chain stitich

1868

York apprentices model train - North Eastern Railway

1870

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

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

1874

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

Telegraph block instrument; Walker's

1865

Bust of James Watt in Parian Ware made by Josiah Wedgwood & Sons from original by E.W. Wyon

after 1859

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Map of England and Wales jigsaw puzzle

circa 1860

Nameplate, London & North Western Railway - "John Ramsbottom"

1872

Child's ceramic alphabet bowl, North Staffordshire Railway

1860