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

Computing & Data Processing

1871

Steam locomotive, 'Beattie Well Tank'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

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

Gustave Doré

1872

Queen Victoria's Saloon

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

London & North Western Railway 'Hardwicke'

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1873

Aveling and Porter steam traction engine

Road Transport

c.1871

Thomson's (Lord Kelvin) First Tide Predicting Machine, 1876

Geophysics

1876

London Brighton & South Coast Railway locomotive Boxhill

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1880

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

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1874

Glass flask containing urine

Microbiology

1865-1877

Carbolic steam spray used by Joseph Lister

Surgery

1866-1870

Edison telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Great Northern Railway locomotive Stirling Single

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1870

Edison's electric carbon filament lamp

Lighting

1879

Swan electric lamp

Lighting

1878-1879

Model of the ‘Optimus’ water closet, England

Domestic Appliances

1870

A steam hammer at work

James Hall Nasmyth

1871

Copy of the receiver and alarm call of Schilling's electric telegraph, 1870-1877

Telecommunications

1870-1877

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

Electricity and Magnetism

1865-1866

Hughes microphone detector, 1865-1875

Radio Communication

1865-1875

Bell transmitter with membrane diaphragm, 1875-1877

Telecommunications

1875-1877

Wheatstone receiver (Morse inker), 1867

Telecommunications

1867

One of four original Swan and Raven models used by Froude

Froude

1867

Chemical Combustion Furnace by J. Orme & Co., 1870s

Experimental Chemistry

1870-1879

North Eastern Railway locomotive Aerolite

Locomotives and Rolling Stock

1869

Edison carbon button transmitter No. 32, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

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

Telecommunications

1865-1867

Bell telephone, mahogany case, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Robert Dudgeon’s sphygmograph

Clinical Diagnosis

1876

English-built 'boneshaker' bicycle

Road Transport

1865-1870

stock exchange automatic telegraph, 1872-1880

Telecommunications

1872-1880

Lancashire Loom

Textile Industry

c. 1880

Model of human eye

Anatomy & Pathology

1870

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

Geometrical Groin Vault, string surface model

Mathematics

1872

replica of Bell's 1876 'iron-box' receiver, 1959

Telecommunications

1876

Crossley table telephone, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

Pair of Bell telephones, 1878

Telecommunications

1878

Copy of clay liver used for divination, original from Babylon, 2050-1750 BCE

Classical & Medieval Medicine

2050-1750 BCE

Crossley telephone receiver, 1880

Telecommunications

1880

Pioneers of Electric Telegraphy at the British Association

Telecommunications

1865

Edison telephone peg switchboard and pegs, 1879

Telecommunications

1879

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

Telecommunications

1865-1867

Sample of transatlantic cable, 1865-66

Telecommunications

1865-1866

Jones 50-line switchboard, 1879.

Telecommunications

1879

'Iago - study from an Italian'

Photographs

1867

Writing frame for the blind, Stockholm, Sweden, 1871

Printing & Writing

1871

Figure group: 'The Toothdrawer', Berlin, 1870-1880

Dentistry

1870-1880

Tailboard, North Eastern Railway

Locomotives and Rolling Stock Components

1880