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

Computing & Data Processing

1871

Queen Victoria's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

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

Gustave Doré

1872

Steam locomotive, 'Beattie Well Tank'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

Road Transport

c.1871

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1873

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Great Northern Railway locomotive Stirling Single

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1870

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

Hindu astrolabe

Astronomy

1870

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

Magic lantern chromatrope slide: 'A Merry Christmas'

Cinematography

1870

A steam hammer at work

James Hall Nasmyth

1871

Hughes microphone detector, 1865-1875

Radio Communication

1865-1875

Treadle-operated 'Minerva' platen printing press

Printing & Writing

c.1870

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

Printing & Writing

1871

English-built 'boneshaker' bicycle

Road Transport

1865-1870

Pioneers of Electric Telegraphy at the British Association

Telecommunications

1865

Packet of 36 vaccination points for smallpox vaccination used at Pimlico Station, London, England, 1873

Public Health & Hygiene

1873

Geometrical Groin Vault, string surface model

Mathematics

1872

Packet of 39 vaccination points for smallpox vaccination used at Bristol Station, London, England, 1873

Public Health & Hygiene

1873

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

Electricity and Magnetism

1865-1866

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

Froude

1867

model sykes lock and block signalling system

Railway Models

1875

lithographic printing press

Printing & Writing

1871

Print, 'Searching Fault' scene on 'Great Eastern' during the laying of the first Atlantic cable, 1865-1867

Telecommunications

1865-1867

Print, 'Interior Tanks', a scene on 'Great Eastern' during the laying of the first Atlantic cable, 1865-1867

Telecommunications

1865-1867

Model of human eye

Anatomy & Pathology

1870

Print, 'Large Buoy' scene on 'Great Eastern' during the laying of the first Atlantic cable, 1865-1867

Telecommunications

1865-1867

Print, 'Launching Buoy' scene on "Great Eastern" during the laying of the first Atlantic cable, 1865-1867

Telecommunications

1865-1867

Two-stroke double-acting single cylinder gas engine, patented by Jean Joseph Etienne Lenoir, France, 1860, and made by Reading Iron Works Limited, Reading, Berkshire, England, 1865. The first internal-combustion engine to be offered for sale, in 1860, Lenoir's engine was an ancestor of the engines in all road vehicles. The engine worked very like a simple double-acting steam-engine. At each stroke gas and air were drawn into the cylinder and fired by an electric spark; on the return stroke the burnt gases were flushed out. Several hundred of these engines were sold, and this one is a very rare survivor. It had been used to drive machinery in the workshop of the Patent Museum for about three years.

Lenoir's gas engine, 1860

Heat Engines (non steam)

1865

The Atlantic Telegraph, broadsheet, 1866

Telecommunications

1866

Packet of 50 vaccination points for smallpox vaccination used at Liverpool Station, London, England, 1873

Public Health & Hygiene

1873

Gooch centrepiece, 1872

Miscellanea & Curiosities

1872

Gold lever watch by George Blackie

Clockmakers

1873

Packet of 30 vaccination points for smallpox vaccination used at Blackfriars Station, London, England, 1873

Public Health & Hygiene

1873

Operation punch cards for Analytical Engine

Computing & Data Processing

C. 1870

Sample of transatlantic cable, 1865-66

Telecommunications

1865-1866

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

Telecommunications

1867

Packet of 39 vaccination points for smallpox vaccination used at Tottenham Court Chapel Station, London, England, 1873

Public Health & Hygiene

1873

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by

Froude

1867

sample of submarine telegraph cable, 1866

Telecommunications

1866

telephone cable marker

Telecommunications

c1870

Catgut suture cord preserved in oil

Surgery

1875

Atlantic cable specimen, 1865

Telecommunications

1865

'Iago - study from an Italian'

Photographs

1867

1875-1969, meteorological, aviation & surveying instrument manufacturer, London, England

Short and Mason Limited

1875 - 1969

Model Draw Door Weir, 1872

Water Supply Metering

1872 (original); 1909 (model)

Spectroscope

Scientific Instruments & Research

c.1870

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