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Stirling single locomotive wheel casting pattern, Great Northern Railway

1870

London & South Western Railway Shark 2-4-0

circa 1868

Gold amulet in the form of a cobra

2000-100 BCE

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

1867

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

1865

Novelty model

1955; 1830

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

1865

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

1865-1866

Letter opener with calendar and map, 1893-1894

1893-4

Replica of the first Morse telegraph, 1835

1934

Sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

1866

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

1865

Sample of gutta percha insulated cable, 1863-7

1863-7

Silver model of the Eleanor Cross at Charing Cross Station

1867-1868

Operative Society of Bricklayers

1866-1870

Glass pharmacy storage bottle

1864

Obstetrical forceps

1870s

Model of the Lowe-Vansittart Screw Propeller Blades

1869

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

Freud electronic laughing ball

1990-96

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

1869

Telegraph block instrument; Walker's

1865

Great Northern Railway 4-2-2 locomotive Stirling Single

1870

Replica of Liverpool & Manchester Railway 1st Class carriage 'Traveller'

1930 (replica); 1834 (original)

York apprentices model train - North Eastern Railway

1870

Pioneers of Electric Telegraphy at the British Association

1865

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

1870

Atmospheric Engine by John Smeaton, 1772

1772 (original); 1919 (model)

'Wagon' Boiler, 19th Century

1801-1840 (original); 1901 (model)

'Haystack' Boiler, 1775-1799

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

Pair-cased pocket watch in pinchbeck and leather outer casing with verge escapement

1705-1737

Copy of the Receiver and Alarm Call of Schilling's Electric Telegraph, 1870-1877

1870-1877

Replica of Morse's second model of telegraphy apparatus, 1934

1934

Facsimile 1865 homemade telephone, 1888

1888

Sample of transatlantic cable, 1865-66

1865-1866

Portrait Bust of Thomas Russell Crampton

1865

Domestic Sewing Machine for chain stitich

1868

Model of the "Planet" Locomotive

1830 (original); 1967 (model)

Model of human eye

1870

Tables of lifetimes, annuities, and premiums

1864

Neolithic flint scraper

4000-2001 BCE

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

1866-1870

Sectional Model of a Beam Engine, 1866.

1866

Viewer microscope, with bead lens, in square body

1888-185

Mouthpiece from inhaler by Dr. Nelson in 1865

1865

Oesophageal forceps Durham's

1871-1830

Sample of steel, manufactured by R. Mushet, 1866

1866

McCallam's patent distance indicator, 1864

1864